SVG Gotchas!
Hey all,
It should be no secret that GSAP does a ton of work to get around SVG-related browser bugs and some serious heavy lifting to make working with SVG as similar to DOM/CSS as possible. We did our best to outline these strengths here: http://greensock.com/svg-tips
However, the workflow of designing an SVG in Illustrator (or other programs) and getting it to play nice can be a little challenging. Why is illustrator renaming my layers? Why did it put a transform on that thing? Why is
Quick Tip: Animating dashed strokes with the DrawSVG plugin
I've seen a few forum questions about animating a dashed line in SVGs. The DrawSVG plugin won’t draw a dashed path. If you try, it will remove your stroke dash array and turn the stroke solid. DrawSVG works by making one big dash and animates the offset. But you can create this effect with one extra step during the SVG creation process. Simply create your dashed stroke(s) as usual and then:
Duplicate your dashed path Remove the dashe
