# Display SVG in Jupyter notebook

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/display-svg-in-jupyter-notebook/3475>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [May 2, 2017, 7:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/display-svg-in-jupyter-notebook/3475 "2017-05-02T07:15:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 7:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/display-svg-in-jupyter-notebook/3475/1 "2017-05-02T07:15:10Z")

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I forgot how to do this. I have an SVG image in

```
/tmp/t.svg

```

and I want to display it in a Jupyter notebook. But as a graphic, not like this:

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/b/0/b02faa1aeab7899750b586ce9704af53365daec2.png)

I tried the obvious

```
display(load("/tmp/t.svg"))

```

but no luck:

```
FileIO.File{FileIO.DataFormat{:UNKNOWN}}("/tmp/t.svg") couldn't be recognized by FileIO.

```

although that does work for PNG images (after loading FileIO).

I’m working on Julia v0.6.

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**Author:** ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/display-svg-in-jupyter-notebook/3475/2 "2017-05-02T17:18:16Z")

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One answer is:

```julia
open("/tmp/test.svg") do f
   display("image/svg+xml", readstring(f))
end

```

Kind of obvious now! 🙂

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**Author:** ![gabehassler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gabehassler/32/13848_2.png) [@gabehassler](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gabehassler)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/display-svg-in-jupyter-notebook/3475/3 "2021-03-13T22:50:37Z")

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Update for Julia 1.x:

```julia
open("/tmp/test.svg") do f
   display("image/svg+xml", read(f, String))
end

```