Encode SVG SCSS

A small function in response to Taylor Hunt's blog post "Optimizing svgs in data uris" allowing you to skip base64 encoding and simply paste the SVG markup right in the CSS.

If you don't see Cartman please let me know what browser and OS you are on (IE8 don't bother ;-)

Use examples

.class { background-image: svg-url('<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">.....</svg>'); } or .class { @include background-svg('<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">.....</svg>'); }

The Sassy Part

// // Function to create an optimized svg url // Version: 1.0.6 @function svg-url($svg){ // // Add missing namespace // @if not str-index($svg,xmlns) { $svg: str-replace($svg, '<svg','<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"'); } // // Chunk up string in order to avoid // "stack level too deep" error // $encoded:''; $slice: 2000; $index: 0; $loops: ceil(str-length($svg)/$slice); @for $i from 1 through $loops { $chunk: str-slice($svg, $index, $index + $slice - 1); // // Encode // $chunk: str-replace($chunk, '"', '\''); $chunk: str-replace($chunk, '%', '%25'); $chunk: str-replace($chunk, '#', '%23'); $chunk: str-replace($chunk, '{', '%7B'); $chunk: str-replace($chunk, '}', '%7D'); $chunk: str-replace($chunk, '<', '%3C'); $chunk: str-replace($chunk, '>', '%3E'); // // The maybe list // // Keep size and compile time down // ... only add on documented fail // // $chunk: str-replace($chunk, '&', '%26'); // $chunk: str-replace($chunk, '|', '%7C'); // $chunk: str-replace($chunk, '[', '%5B'); // $chunk: str-replace($chunk, ']', '%5D'); // $chunk: str-replace($chunk, '^', '%5E'); // $chunk: str-replace($chunk, '`', '%60'); // $chunk: str-replace($chunk, ';', '%3B'); // $chunk: str-replace($chunk, '?', '%3F'); // $chunk: str-replace($chunk, ':', '%3A'); // $chunk: str-replace($chunk, '@', '%40'); // $chunk: str-replace($chunk, '=', '%3D'); $encoded: #{$encoded}#{$chunk}; $index: $index + $slice; } @return url("data:image/svg+xml,#{$encoded}"); } // Background svg mixin @mixin background-svg($svg){ background-image: svg-url($svg); } // Helper function to replace characters in a string @function str-replace($string, $search, $replace: '') { $index: str-index($string, $search); @return if($index, str-slice($string, 1, $index - 1) + $replace + str-replace(str-slice($string, $index + str-length($search)), $search, $replace), $string); }

https://codepen.io/jakob-e/pen/doMoML