Positioning SVG elements using CSS

Question

Assume the following svg document:

<svg version="1.1" baseProfile="full" width="300" height="200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<text x="20" y="20">My text</text>
</svg>

Now what i want to do is reposition this text using css.

I have tried adding style="dx:20" and style="transform: translate(20)". Both have no effect in firefox and safari. Adding these as normal attributes works fine but then i can't split the positioning from the actual code. Setting x, y, left and top in the style isn't working either.

Is there a way to position an svg element using css?

Answer 1

I warn you i'm a relative beginner but what about "x" and "y" and assigning these with number and "px"

maybe:

left: 290px;    top: 1200px;

or

x:30px; y:50px;

and

text-anchor:start;

Sample:

<text
       xml:space="preserve"
       style="font-size:32;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;font-stretch:normal;text-align:start;line-height:125%;writing-mode:lr-tb;text-anchor:start;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width:1px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1;font-family:Comic Sans MS;-inkscape-font-specification:Comic Sans MS Bold"
       x="131.42857"
       y="269.50504"
       id="text2383"
       sodipodi:linespacing="125%"><tspan
         sodipodi:role="line"
         id="tspan2385"
         x="131.42857"
         y="269.50504">Position ze text</tspan></text>