@silky/text

The <Text /> component is a React implementation of the <text> SVG element which defines a graphics element consisting of text. It's possible to apply a gradient, pattern, clipping path, mask, or filter to , just like any other SVG graphics element.

If text is included within SVG not inside of a element, it is not rendered. This is different from being hidden by default, as setting the display property will not show the text.

Roadmap

• Vertical alignment
• Multiline text
• Dynamic scaling

Install

Yarn

yarn add @silky/text

NPM

npm install --save @silky/text

Import

ES5 Modules

import { Text } from '@silky/text';

CommonJS

const Text = require('@silky/text');

Browser

<script src="https://unpkg.com/@silky/text@:version/umd/silky-text.js"></script>

Usage

In this example you can see how to pass translate and rotate values for the transform attribute.

const App = () => (
  <svg>
    <Text>foo</Text>
  </svg>
);

render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));

Props

className

  className?: string

• Defaults: 'silky-text'
• Description: any additional class name will be appended to the default one.
• Documentation: https://reactjs.org/docs/faq-styling.html

css

  css?: Object

• Defaults: null
• Description: accepts an Emotion CSS declaration using the css prop.
• Documentation: https://emotion.sh/docs/css-prop

x

  x?: number | string

• Defaults: null
• Description: determines the x coordinate of the starting point of the text baseline.
• Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/x

y

  y?: number | string

• Defaults: null
• Description: determines the y coordinate of the starting point of the text baseline.
• Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/y

dy

  dy?: number | string

• Defaults: null
• Description: allows you to shift the text position vertically.
• Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/dy

dx

  dx?: number | string

• Defaults: null
• Description: allows you to shift the text position horizontally.
• Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/dx

dy

  dy?: number | string

• Defaults: null
• Description: allows you to shift the text position vertically.
• Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/dy

lengthAdjust

  lengthAdjust?: 'spacing' | 'spacingAndGlyphs'

• Defaults: null
• Description: when an SVG <text> or <tspan> element has a specific length, set using the textLength attribute, the lengthAdjust attribute controls how the text is stretched or compressed into that length.
• Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/lengthAdjust

textLength

  textLength?: number | string

• Defaults: null
• Description: lets you specify the width of the space into which the text will draw.
• Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/textLength

transform

  transform?: {
    matrix?: [number]
    rotate?: number | string
    scale?: number | [number]
    skew?: string | [string]
    translate?: [number | string]
  }

• Defaults: null
• Description: will generate the correct transform attribute value based on the properties passed in the object.
• Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/transform