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Posted by Lewis Turner
Lewis Turner
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Adding text to an SVG

Hi

Am attempting to add some text to the top and bottom arc of an SVG. I have drawn the inside circle as a guide to where to write my text, inserted a text tag with "My text should go here..." but when I preview the SVG, I see the circle, but no text.

Can anybody see what I'm going wrong?

<?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" id="logo-graphic" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="600px" height="500px" viewBox="0 0 900 750" xml:space="preserve">
    <defs>
        <g id="chunk-five-base64">
        </g>
    </defs>
    <g id="base">
        <g id="outline-circle-svg">
            <circle fill="none" stroke="#000000" stroke-width="10" cx="450" cy="375" r="262.448">
            </circle>
        </g>
    </g>
    <g id="swag">
        <g id="outline-dashed-svg">
            <circle fill="none" stroke="#000000" stroke-width="3" stroke-miterlimit="10" stroke-dasharray="10.0082,10.0082" cx="450.001" cy="375" r="248.475">
            </circle>
        </g>
    </g>
    <g>
        <g>
            <circle fill="none" stroke="#000000" stroke-width="3" cx="450" cy="375" r="230">
                <text>My text should go here...</text>
            </circle>
        </g>
    </g>
    <g id="text">
        <g id="text-single-line-svg" transform="translate(450,400)" text-anchor="middle" font-family="'chunk-five'" font-size="90" fill="#000000">
            <text id="text-single-line-text-svg" x="0" y="0">L j T</text>
        </g>
    </g>
</svg>