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Baseline Widely available *

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

The <ellipse> SVG element is an SVG basic shape, used to create ellipses based on a center coordinate, and both their x and y radius.

**Note:**Ellipses are unable to specify the exact orientation of the ellipse (if, for example, you wanted to draw an ellipse tilted at a 45 degree angle), but it can be rotated by using the transform attribute.

Usage context

Categories Basic shape element, Graphics element, Shape element
Permitted content Any number of the following elements, in any order:Animation elementsDescriptive elements

Attributes

cx

The x position of the center of the ellipse.Value type: | ; Default value: 0; Animatable: yes

cy

The y position of the center of the ellipse.Value type: | ; Default value: 0; Animatable: yes

rx

The radius of the ellipse on the x axis.Value type: auto | | ; Default value: auto; Animatable: yes

ry

The radius of the ellipse on the y axis.Value type: auto | | ; Default value: auto; Animatable: yes

pathLength

This attribute lets specify the total length for the path, in user units.Value type: ; Default value: none; Animatable: yes

**Note:**Starting with SVG2 cx, cy, rx and ry are Geometry Properties, meaning those attributes can also be used as CSS properties for that element.

Example

html,
body,
svg {
  height: 100%;
}

html

<svg viewBox="0 0 200 100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <ellipse cx="100" cy="50" rx="100" ry="50" />
</svg>

Specifications

Specification
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 # EllipseElement

Browser compatibility

See also