1. SVG Tutorial
2. SVG Examples
3. A Simple SVG Example
4. Displaying SVG in Web Browsers
5. SVG Icons
6. SVG Coordinate System
7. SVG svg element
8. SVG g element
9. SVG rect element
10. SVG circle element
11. SVG ellipse element
12. SVG line element
13. SVG polyline element
14. SVG polygon element
15. SVG path element
16. SVG marker element
17. SVG text element
18. SVG tspan element
19. SVG tref element
20. SVG textpath element
21. SVG switch element
22. SVG image element
23. SVG a element
24. SVG defs Elements
25. SVG symbol Element
26. SVG use Element
27. SVG and CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
28. SVG Stroke
29. SVG Fill
30. SVG Viewport and View Box
31. SVG Animation
32. SVG Scripting
33. SVG Transformation
34. SVG Gradients
35. SVG Fill Patterns
36. SVG Clip Path
37. SVG Masks
38. SVG Filters

• SVG Polygon - Video Tutorial
• SVG Polygon Example

The SVG <polygon> element is used to draw shapes with multiple (3 or more) sides / edges.

SVG Polygon - Video Tutorial

Here is a video version of this tutorial:

SVG Polygon Example

Here is a simple SVG polygon example:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">

  <polygon points="10,0  60,0  35,50"
         style="stroke:#660000; fill:#cc3333;"/>

</svg>

Here is the resulting image:

You may notice that all 3 sides are drawn, even if only 3 points are listed. That is because the <polygon> element draws lines between all points, including a line from the last point back to the first. The <polyline> does NOT draw a line from the last point to the first. This seems to be the only difference the <polygon> and the <polyline> elements.

Here is a larger example - an 8-sided polygon (octagon?):

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">

  <polygon points="50,5   100,5  125,30  125,80 100,105
                   50,105  25,80  25, 30"
          style="stroke:#660000; fill:#cc3333; stroke-width: 3;"/>

</svg>