grunt-svginjector

Inject external SVG files into HTML

grunt-svginjector is a Grunt plugin that allows you to inline SVGs into your HTML by way of a generated JavaScript file. It works great in conjunction with grunt-svgstore for using SVG icons.

Read this article to see how I'm using it.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-svginjector --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-svginjector');

The svginjector task

Run this task with the grunt svginjector command.

Options

container

Type: String Default: #svginjector

The ID of the element into which to inject the SVGs.

mode

Type: String Default: replace

The mode option controls how the SVG is inserted into the DOM. Possible values:

• replace replaces the content of the DOM element;
• append adds the SVG as the last child of the DOM element;
• prepend adds the SVG as the first child of the DOM element.

Usage

A quick example (see the example folder for more input/output examples):

grunt.initConfig({
	svginjector: {
		example: {
			options: {
				container: '#icons-container'
			},
			files: {
				'example/dist/icons.js': 'example/src/icons.svg'
			}
		}
	}
});