SVG Oversized on Load

Question

I have a simple search icon as an SVG I'm using, but for some reason, when I load my webpage, it is huge despite a 24x24 lock in the CSS and in the styling of the SVG itself.

It spreads out and takes up the whole page until everything is done loading, then it snaps to the normal 24x24 size. It looks absolutely ridiculous and I know I have to be doing something wrong. Any ideas?

SVG:

<svg style="position: absolute; width: 0; height: 0;" width="0" height="0" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<defs>
    <symbol id="icon-search" class="icon" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
        <title>search</title>
        <circle class="st0" cx="9.3" cy="9.2" r="8.6" />
        <line class="st1" x1="15.3" y1="15.4" x2="23.3" y2="23.4" />
    </symbol>
</defs>

HTML:

<div class="searchContainer">
     <div class="search">
          <input class="image" type="image" src="images/search.svg"><input class="text" type="text" onfocus="if(this.value == 'Search') { this.value = ''; }" value="Search" onblur="if (this.value == '') { this.value = 'Search'; }">
      </div><!-- /search -->
</div><!-- /searchContainer -->

CSS:

input.image{
   fill: black;
   width: 24px;
   height: 24px;
   border: 0;
   padding-top: 9px;
   text-align: right;
}

Here is what I'm Seeing on Load.

Note that the other icons are also SVGs, but they are done in a single file with the method I couldn't use with the input for the search.

<svg><use xlink></use></svg>

Any help appreciated. Thank you!

Answer 1

You can solve this by adding the width and height attributes directly to the SVG. For example, your SVG might look something like this:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 225 225" width="20" height="20"> 
  <title>Search</title>
  <path fill="#fff" d="M225 202v8c-2.7 7.3-7.6 12.4-15 15h-8c-7.3-1.2-12.4-5.7-17.3-10.9-6.6-7-13.6-13.7-20.4-20.6-11.5-11.6-22.9-23.2-34.3-34.7-18 10.2-36.7 14.6-56.6 11.2-34.8-5.9-57.9-25.9-69.3-59.2C2 105.2 1.3 99 0 93V78c.3-.8.7-1.5.8-2.3C6.1 38.8 27 15 62.1 3.4 67.2 1.7 72.7 1.1 78 0h15c3.6.7 7.1 1.3 10.7 2C140 8.7 170 44.2 171.1 81.2c.5 17.2-3.3 33.3-12.5 49.2 1.3 1 3 1.9 4.2 3.2 17.1 17 34.1 34.2 51.3 51.2 5.1 4.9 9.7 9.9 10.9 17.2zM85.1 146.9c33 .5 61.5-27.3 61.9-60.4.4-33.7-26.7-61.5-60.6-62.2-33.3-.7-61.5 26.8-62.1 60.6-.6 33.3 27 61.5 60.8 62z"/>
</svg>

Note where it says width="20" height="20" specifically. That will limit the SVG size when the image loads. Then you can adjust the height and width using CSS as needed.