Display Inline SVG Using the <img> Tag
SVG can be embedded into HTML documents with the <img> tag. Even better, standards-compliant browsers will also accept inline base-64 encoded SVG as a data URI. For example this figure:
was created with this tag:
In other words, it’s possible to generate and display vector graphics client-side without manipulating a DOM representation. This could be useful, for example, when generating complex vector graphics within a Web Worker, which lacks DOM access.
