@namespace CSS At-Rule

Description

The @namespace CSS at-rule declares a namespace prefix and associates it with a given namespace name. It can also be used to declare a (non-prefixed) default namespace.

Syntax

namespace <namespace-prefix>? [ <string> | <url> ];
where 
<namespace-prefix> = <ident>

Values

• none

Example

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@namespace svg url(http://www.w3.org/2000/svg);



/* This matches all XHTML  elements, as XHTML is the default unprefixed namespace */

a {}



/* This matches all SVG  elements */

svg|a {}



/* This matches both XHTML and SVG  elements */

*|a {}

Browser Support

Desktop
9	12	1	1	8	1
Tablets / Mobile
37	18	4	14	1	1.0

Last updated by CSSPortal on: 1st December 2019