Svgs Not Scaling Properly in Ie - Has Extra Space

SVGs not scaling properly in IE - has extra space

As you have discovered, IE has a bug where it doesn't scale the SVG properly if you don't provide both the width and height.

To get it working in IE, you can use a trick discovered (?) by Nicolas Gallagher.

http://nicolasgallagher.com/canvas-fix-svg-scaling-in-internet-explorer/

The trick uses a <canvas> element. IE does properly scale canvas elements. So if you place one in the <div> with the SVG, the SVG will end up the correct size. You just need to give the canvas the same aspect ratio as your SVG.

<div style="position:relative;width:100%;background:blue;">
  <canvas width="254" height="108"></canvas>
  <svg class="mys" viewBox="0 0 254 108" preserveAspectRatio="xMaxYMax meet">
    <use xlink:href="#mys"></use>
  </svg>
</div>

with CSS

canvas {
    display: block;
    width: 100%;
    visibility: hidden;
}

svg {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    width: 100%;
}

canvas {    display: block;    width: 100%;    visibility: hidden;}
svg {    position: absolute;    top: 0;    left: 0;    width: 100%;}

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SVG with width/height doesn't scale on IE9/10/11

This happens when your image is missing the viewBox attribute on the svg element.

Yours should be set to: 0 0 640 480. The zeros are X and Y offsets and the 640 and 480 correspond to the width and height. It defines a rectangle that represents the boundaries of the image.

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" height="480" width="640" viewBox="0 0 640 480">