v156 · textPath side · canonical
Inside / outside
One circular path, one caption. With side="left" (the default) the caption runs around the outside of the ring; side="right" reverses the path and puts it inside, mirrored to stay readable. The table underneath reads real glyph positions off the rendered SVG — because side has no IDL reflection, measuring the rendering is the only honest feature probe.
Flip the caption
The markup
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The spec defines right as "effectively reversing the path", so a clockwise circle becomes counter-clockwise: the glyph baseline faces the centre and the text runs inside. Everything else — startOffset, anchoring, the closed-subpath wrapping rules — applies unchanged to the reversed path. The side lab takes those interactions apart.