Too Many SVGs Clogging Up Your Markup? Try use

Good reminder by Georgi Nikoloff to have one (visually hidden) SVG that contains several layers, which you can then include further down in your code.

SVG has a <defs> tag that lets us declare something like our graph footer just once and then simply reference it — using <use> — from anywhere on the page to render it as many times as we want.

That way you end up with less DOM nodes, less bytes transferred, and less memory consumed.

Too Many SVGs Clogging Up Your Markup? Try use

Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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