About the SVG Formatter
What is an SVG formatter?
SVG exported from design tools — Figma, Illustrator, Inkscape — usually arrives as one enormous line of markup. That's fine for browsers and hopeless for humans. This tool formats SVG live as you type: one element per line, indentation that follows the nesting of your groups, and attributes tidied onto single spaces, so you can actually find the path you need to edit. Since SVG is XML, every keystroke is also checked for well-formedness with the browser's native parser.
The Minify mode does the opposite for production: comments and the whitespace between elements are stripped while CDATA sections — often used for embedded styles and scripts — stay byte-for-byte intact. Everything is self-contained in your browser: no CDN, no uploads, works offline.
How to Use This Tool
- Add your SVG. Paste the markup, open an
.svgfile, or click Sample. - Check the badge. "Well-formed XML" in green means the file parses; errors show in red.
- Beautify or minify. Pick your indentation for editing, or switch to Minify before shipping.
- Take the result. Copy it or download it as an
.svgfile — the size chips show the difference.
Common Use Cases
- Editing exports by hand: Format a design-tool export before tweaking paths, colors, or IDs.
- Reviewing icons: Make icon markup readable enough to audit and optimize.
- Shrinking inline SVG: Minify icons before embedding them in HTML or CSS.
- Debugging broken files: The well-formedness badge finds the unclosed tag that stops an SVG rendering.
Want to see it rendered? Use the SVG Viewer. Deeper size optimization? The SVG Optimizer. Converting? SVG to PNG.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is formatting safe for how the SVG renders?
Yes. Beautifying only changes whitespace between elements, which SVG rendering ignores. Minifying additionally strips comments and inter-element whitespace — also render-safe — while CDATA blocks with embedded styles or scripts are preserved exactly.
Can it handle SVGs exported from Figma or Illustrator?
Yes — single-line exports with long path data and heavy attribute lists are exactly what it is built for. Each element lands on its own line with the attribute list intact.
Does it reduce file size like an optimizer?
Minify removes comments and whitespace, which typically saves 10-30% on formatted files. It deliberately does not rewrite path data, merge shapes, or drop attributes — those lossy optimizations belong to the SVG Optimizer, which you can run afterwards.
What does the well-formedness check catch?
Everything XML syntax requires: unclosed or misnested tags, unquoted attributes, invalid characters, and duplicate attributes. It does not judge whether the drawing itself is sensible — a well-formed SVG can still be an empty canvas.
Will long path data be wrapped or altered?
No. Attribute values, including long d="..." path strings, pass through untouched — only the whitespace around elements changes.
Is my SVG uploaded anywhere?
No. Formatting and validation run locally in your browser — no CDN, no uploads, no logging — and the tool keeps working offline once loaded.