DrawSVG Line Showing Problem

[sjerrentrup 0 Likes (Newbie)]

Hello,

 

I have a short animation made using the DrawSVG Plugin.  There's a lighting bolt in the middle.  Problem is, it shows a long white line at the very beginning and then when in animates, it just jumps at the end to close off the object.  I need this line to be invisible at the beginning and for the animation to run smoothly.

 

Please check my Codepen URL.

 

Thanks,

 

-Stefan

 

See the Pen PPWbBN by anon (@anon) on CodePen

[Diaco 1,997 Likes (Superhero)]

Hi sjerrentrup 

 

your problem come from your svg not DrawSVG Plugin ,

Illustrator have some issues during exporting SVG ( like line breaks in path d / polygon points )

 

with this online tool you can fix Ai svg issues : https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/

 

pls check this out : 

See the Pen yYgVQv by MAW (@MAW) on CodePen

[Carl 11,164 Likes (Superhero)]

nice work, Diaco!

[Jonathan 5,392 Likes (Superhero)]

Great job and svg cleanup tool link Diaco! ..

 

To add to Diaco's outstanding advise!. I also noticed that in your CSS you have some CSS shorthand properties with commas.

// so this 
padding:0,0,0,0;

// should be this with no commas
padding:0 0 0 0;

And since you are including your SVG code in an HTML page (codepen's HTML panel) you don't need the <xml> tag or the <doctype> tag. Since those are only needed if you leave your SVG code in an svg file (example: my_svg_file.svg ).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 15.1.0, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 6.00 Build 0)  -->
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">

But Diaco's very handy svg clean up tool link, will do all the heavy code clean up for you

 

Resource:

SVG in HTML: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/SVG_In_HTML_Introduction