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@cloudfour/simple-svg-placeholder
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A very simple placeholder image generator with zero dependencies. Returns a data URI (or raw SVG source) as a string for use in templates.
A very simple placeholder image generator with zero dependencies. Returns a data URI (or raw SVG source) as a string for use in templates.
The package is available to install via npm:
npm i --save @cloudfour/simple-svg-placeholder
Once installed, you may import the function as an ES or CommonJS module:
// Module
import simpleSvgPlaceholder from 'simple-svg-placeholder';
// CommonJS
const simpleSvgPlaceholder = require('@cloudfour/simple-svg-placeholder');
Then call the function to generate placeholder SVGs:
const placeholder = simpleSvgPlaceholder(/* options */);
// => 'data:image/svg+xml;...'
simpleSvgPlaceholder();
simpleSvgPlaceholder({
width: 180,
height: 135,
});
simpleSvgPlaceholder({
text: 'Hello world!',
});
simpleSvgPlaceholder({
bgColor: '#0F1C3F',
textColor: '#7FDBFF',
});
simpleSvgPlaceholder({
fontFamily: 'Georgia, serif',
fontWeight: 'normal',
});
{Number}
Defaults to 300
, the default width of SVG elements in most browsers.
{Number}
Defaults to 150
, the default height of SVG elements in most browsers.
{String}
The text to display. Defaults to the image dimensions.
{String}
The font to use for the text. For data URIs, this needs to be a system-installed font. Defaults to 'sans-serif'
.
{String}
Defaults to 'bold'
.
{Number}
Defaults to 20% of the shortest image dimension, rounded down.
{Number}
Adjustment applied to the dy
attribute of the text element so it will appear vertically centered. Defaults to 35% of the fontSize
.
{String}
The background color of the image. Defaults to #ddd
.
{String}
The color of the text. For transparency, use an rgba
or hsla
color value. Defaults to rgba(0,0,0,0.5)
.
{Boolean}
If true
, the function will return an encoded string for use as an img
element's src
value. If false
, the function will return the unencoded SVG source. Defaults to true
.
{String}
Defaults to UTF-8
, but if your source HTML document's character set is different, you may want to update this to match.
FAQs
A very simple placeholder image generator with zero dependencies. Returns a data URI (or raw SVG source) as a string for use in templates.
We found that @cloudfour/simple-svg-placeholder demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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