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This feature enables you to embed YouTube and Vimeo videos, EC Software weblink HelpXplain presentations and pretty much any web content in your SVG images, including things like MP4 video files posted directly to the web. The content is displayed in a box we call the lightbox within the borders of the main image. Note that it can't extend beyond the image, so you do need to restrict this feature that are large enough to display the content acceptably.

Requirement for links and animation: SVG format and <object> tag

All animation and interactivity to be executed in web pages, including embedded videos and web content, require the SVG format, and the main SVG containing this content must also be inserted in the web page using the <object> tag.This applies for links, web videos and animations in general. SnipSVG provides the code you need for this directly for you to copy and paste. See Adding SVGs to Web Pages for full details.

Location of the web frames options

You can insert videos and web frames in the web frames menu in the toolbar:

WebframesMenu

About video and web frames

Inserting online videos and other web content in an SVG image works with a web standard called iFrames. This creates an additional web page in a window, which can either be inside a regular web page or an SVG image, which then acts as the container instead of the web page. Since the SVG image is the container, the size of the web frame is limited to the size of the image.

How it works

When you insert any kind of web frame in your image, SnipSVG inserts a preview image linking to the web address with the additional option that the content should be loaded in a lightbox. The content is static until the user clicks on it to open the lightbox and load the target page into it. Like animations, embedded videos and other web content in SnipSVG images require user interaction to start or load, which means a click. Until the user clicks there is only a static preview image.

Where web frames don't work

The simple answer to this question is Internet Explorer, and that also means CHM help files, because the CHM viewer is basically an older version of Internet Explorer with a different user interface. In Internet Explorer or CHM web frames and their content will simply open in an external window. This may also apply to other old browsers, but since those can almost always be updated on any operating system this is nor normally an issue.