Sara Soueidan • 3/1/2016

SVG Style Inheritance and the ‘Flash Of Unstyled SVG’

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This technical article addresses the 'Flash of Unstyled SVG' (FOUSVG) problem, where inline SVGs scale uncontrollably if CSS fails to load. It explains SVG style inheritance and demonstrates how to use SVG presentation attributes (like width and height) to provide a fallback, ensuring responsive SVGs remain usable even in CSS failure scenarios.

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