SVG image element

The SVG <image> element allows for raster images to be rendered within an SVG object.

In this basic example, a .jpg image referenced by an href attribute will be rendered inside an SVG object:

xml

<svg width="5cm" height="4cm"
     xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <image href="firefox.jpg" x="0" y="0" height="50px" width="50px"/>
</svg>

There are some important things to take note of:

If you do not set the x or y attributes, they will be set to 0.
If you do not set the height or width attributes, they will be set to 0.
Having a height or width attribute of 0 will disable rendering of the image.