Hello,
I’m making a set of buttons which use dynamic gradients. I’ve taken care of Firefox 3.6+ and WebKit by using their proprietary CSS extensions and all I need to do is support Opera, iOS and IE9 by using background-image: url("gradient.svg").
This is relatively easy, I made an SVG file, linked it and got it working. However, I’m making a set so I need at least 6 gradients. When I normally do it in images, I create a sprite for fast HTTP access. I’m not sure how to achieve this in SVG – can I use one file and access different parts of its XML by using #identifiers, like XBL does?
My current SVG:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<defs>
<linearGradient id="select-gradient" x1="0" x2="0" y1="0" y2="1">
<stop offset="0%" stop-color="rgb(231,244,248)"/>
<stop offset="100%" stop-color="rgb(207,233,241)"/>
</linearGradient>
<style type="text/css">
rect {
fill: url(#select-gradient);
}
</style>
</defs>
<rect x="0" y="0" rx="6" ry="6" height="100%" width="100%"/>
</svg>
And then I have CSS:
.button-1 {
background-image: url("gradient-1.svg");
}
.button-2 {
background-image: url("gradient-2.svg");
}
I want to do something like this:
.button-1 {
background-image: url("gradient.svg#gradient1");
}
.button-2 {
background-image: url("gradient.svg#gradient2");
}
Is it even possible? Can you help me out? I really don’t wanna push 6 XML files when I can do it with one.