It replaces or adds up to the transform attribute of the element. This element controls the transformation which applies to the target element. This element controls the animation of color valued attributes and properties. This elements only controls the position of a SVG element, by telling it to follow a given path This element is used to animate any scalar attribute or property, such as the width attribute of an svg:rect element or the CCS property opacity In fact, it's completely legal to have two animations that control the same attribute of the same element, and they can overlap in time: at any particular time there exists a stack of animations applying to a particular attribute, and SMIL defines the order in which each animation is applied. The specific attribute/property which is controlled is called the target attribute/property. So we have this relation:įor a given animation the element which is controlled is called the target element of the animation. Multiple animations can control the evolution of particular attribute: for example, one will tell the object to turn for 1 second starting at t=0 second and another to move across the document for 2 seconds starting at a later time. In SMIL an animation is an object which defines the evolution of a given attribute of a given object (here an SVG element - path, rect, group.) over time. Here I only focus on procedural animation as defined by SMIL and not free-form scripted animation (using e.g. Animation in SVG conforms to the SMIL specification (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) and extends it (SVG is said to be a host language of SMIL).

3 Specifying the target element and propertyĪnimation in SVG is defined in the Animation Module of the SVG specification.

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