---
title: string
slug: Web/SVG/Attribute/string
translation_of: Web/SVG/Attribute/string
---
<div>{{SVGRef}}{{deprecated_header("SVG 2")}}</div>

<p><span class="seoSummary">The <strong><code>string</code></strong> attribute is a hint to the user agent, and specifies a list of formats that the font referenced by the parent {{SVGElement("font-face-uri")}} element supports.</span></p>

<p>Only one element is using this attribute: {{SVGElement("font-face-format")}}</p>

<h2 id="Usage_notes">Usage notes</h2>

<table class="properties">
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">Value</th>
   <td><code><a href="/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Content_type#Anything">&lt;anything&gt;</a></code></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">Default value</th>
   <td><em>None</em></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">Animatable</th>
   <td>No</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<dl>
 <dt><code>&lt;anything&gt;</code></dt>
 <dd>
 <p>This value specifies a list of formats that are supported by the font referenced by the parent {{SVGElement("font-face-uri")}} element.</p>

 <p>The available types are: <code>"woff"</code>, <code>"woff2"</code>, <code>"truetype"</code>, <code>"opentype"</code>, <code>"embedded-opentype"</code>, and <code>"svg"</code>. See the {{cssxref("@font-face/src", "src")}} descriptor of the {{cssxref("@font-face")}} at-rule for more information.</p>
 </dd>
</dl>

<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("SVG1.1", "fonts.html#FontFaceFormatElementStringAttribute", "string")}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2("SVG1.1")}}</td>
   <td>Initial definition</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 id="Browser_compatibility">Browser compatibility</h2>



<p>{{Compat("svg.elements.font-face-format.string")}}</p>