What is a .SVG file?
SVG is an XML-based vector image format that scales to any size without losing quality. Opened in browsers, Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator.
- Did you know
- SVG became a W3C web standard in 2001.
- Because SVG is XML text, its shapes, paths and styles can be created, edited or animated directly with scripting and CSS, no image editor required.
- SVG was chosen by the W3C over two competing proposals, Microsoft and Macromedia’s VML and Adobe and Sun’s PGML, which it effectively merged ideas from.
- A .SVG file is plain text, so you can open and edit it in any text editor.
- On the web a .SVG file is served with the MIME type
image/svg+xml.
- What Analyser shows you
- View or rasterise SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) - the XML-based vector format used for icons, logos and illustrations - and inspect its markup, in the browser.
- Open a .SVG file
- Drag a .SVG file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.
- Related formats
- Browse the full list of supported file types.