baseline-shift
Limited availability
This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
The baseline-shift attribute allows repositioning of the dominant-baseline relative to the dominant-baseline of the parent text content element. The shifted object might be a sub- or superscript.
Note: As a presentation attribute, baseline-shift also has a CSS property counterpart: baseline-shift. When both are specified, the CSS property takes priority.
Note: This property is going to be deprecated and authors are advised to use vertical-align instead.
You can use this attribute with the following SVG elements:
Usage notes
| Value | <length-percentage> | sub | super |
|---|---|
| Default value | 0 |
| Animatable | Yes |
sub-
The dominant-baseline is shifted to the default position for subscripts.
super-
The dominant-baseline is shifted to the default position for superscripts.
<length-percentage>-
A length value raises (positive value) or lowers (negative value) the dominant-baseline of the parent text content element by the specified length.
A percentage value raises (positive value) or lowers (negative value) the dominant-baseline of the parent text content element by the specified percentage of the
line-height.
Specifications
Browser compatibility
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
baseline-shift |
≤80 | ≤80 | No | ≤67 | ≤13.1 | ≤80 | No | ≤57 | ≤13.4 | ≤13.0 | ≤80 | ≤13.4 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/Attribute/baseline-shift
