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paint-order

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The paint-order attribute specifies the order that the fill, stroke, and markers of a given shape or text element are painted. Its default value is normal, which indicates that the fill will be painted first, then the stroke, and finally the markers. To specify a different order, a white space separated list of keywords fill, stroke, and markers can be used. If any of the three painting components is omitted, then they will be painted in their default order after the specified components. For example, using stroke is equivalent to stroke fill markers.

As a presentation attribute, it also can be used as a property directly inside a CSS stylesheet.

Usage context

Categories Presentation attribute
Value normal | [ fill || stroke || markers ] | inherit
Animatable Yes
Normative document SVG 2

Example

<svg xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="400" height="200">
  <linearGradient id="g" x1="0" y1="0" x2="0" y2="1">
    <stop stop-color="#888"/>
    <stop stop-color="#ccc" offset="1"/>
  </linearGradient>
  <rect width="400" height="200" fill="url(#g)"/>
  <g fill="crimson" stroke="white" stroke-width="6" stroke-linejoin="round"
     text-anchor="middle" font-family="sans-serif" font-size="50px" font-weight="bold">
    <text x="200" y="75">stroke over</text>
    <text x="200" y="150" paint-order="stroke">stroke under</text>
  </g>
</svg>

The example would be rendered as follows:

An image showing how the paint-order example looks in a UA that supports the paint-order property.

Elements

The following elements can use the paint-order attribute:

Browser compatibility

Feature Firefox (Gecko) Chrome Internet Explorer Opera Safari
Basic support (Yes) (Yes) No support (Yes) (Yes)
Feature Firefox Mobile (Gecko) Android IE Phone Opera Mobile Safari Mobile
Basic support ? No support No support No support No support

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