--- title: letter-spacing slug: Web/SVG/Attribute/letter-spacing translation_of: Web/SVG/Attribute/letter-spacing --- <div>{{SVGRef}}</div> <p><span class="seoSummary">The <strong><code>letter-spacing</code></strong> attribute controls spacing between text characters, in addition to any spacing from the {{SVGAttr("kerning")}} attribute.</span></p> <p>If the attribute value is a unitless number (like <code>128</code>), the browser processes it as a {{cssxref("length")}} in the current user coordinate system.</p> <p>If the attribute value has a unit identifier, such as <code>.25em</code> or <code>1%</code>, then the browser converts the <length> into its corresponding value in the current user coordinate system.</p> <p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> As a presentation attribute, <code>letter-spacing</code> can be used as a CSS property. See the {{cssxref("letter-spacing", "CSS letter-spacing")}} property for more information.</p> <p>As a presentation attribute, it can be applied to any element but it has effect only on the following eight elements: {{SVGElement("altGlyph")}}, {{SVGElement("text")}}, {{SVGElement("textPath")}}, {{SVGElement("tref")}}, and {{SVGElement("tspan")}}</p> <div id="topExample"> <div class="hidden"> <pre class="brush: css">html, body, svg { height: 100%; }</pre> </div> <pre class="brush: html; hightlight[2,3]"><svg viewBox="0 0 400 30" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <text y="20" letter-spacing="2">Bigger letter-spacing</text> <text x="200" y="20" letter-spacing="-0.5">Smaller letter-spacing</text> </svg></pre> <p>{{EmbedLiveSample("topExample", "200", "30")}}</p> </div> <h2 id="Usage_notes">Usage notes</h2> <table class="properties"> <tbody> <tr> <th scope="row">Value</th> <td><code>normal</code> | {{cssxref("length")}}</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Default value</th> <td><code>normal</code></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Animatable</th> <td>Yes</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>For a description of the values, please refer to the <a href="/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/letter-spacing#Values">CSS <code>letter-spacing</code></a> property.</p> <p class="note">As of May 2019, Firefox <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371787">ignores <code>letter-spacing</code></a> and renders text without.</p> <h2 id="Specifications">Specifications</h2> <table class="standard-table"> <thead> <tr> <th scope="col">Specification</th> <th scope="col">Status</th> <th scope="col">Comment</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>{{SpecName("CSS3 Text", "#letter-spacing-property", "letter-spacing")}}</td> <td>{{Spec2("CSS3 Text")}}</td> <td>SVG 2 just refers to the definition in CSS Text 3.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>{{SpecName("SVG1.1", "text.html#LetterSpacingProperty", "letter-spacing")}}</td> <td>{{Spec2("SVG1.1")}}</td> <td>Initial definition</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h2 id="Browser_compatibility">Browser compatibility</h2> <p>{{Compat("svg.attributes.presentation.letter-spacing")}}</p> <h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>{{cssxref("letter-spacing", "CSS letter-spacing")}}</li> </ul>