The latest articles on DEV Community by ✽ (@avail). https://dev.to/avail https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F500518%2F53b0effd-ce41-4c7d-a21d-e7ab46c60e20.png https://dev.to/avail en ✽ Wed, 28 Oct 2020 05:13:44 +0000 https://dev.to/avail/custom-profile-readme-1k29 https://dev.to/avail/custom-profile-readme-1k29 <p>So I wanted to make one of those fancy custom profile readmes,<br> Initially I was just going to have a few links there and some description - but since I saw someone using svg I thought I'd try using foreignObject to actually have some custom CSS and markup.</p> <p>So I spend around an hour designing a silly readme layout, only to realize GitHub renders a static version of it, so none of my custom animations will work :(</p> <p>I ended up completing it anyway, and it seems clicking on the rendered svg on my profile opens up a version of it (cached by github) in which the animations actually work!</p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--oEa3x_d6--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/axnb3armf5j1ka17hxws.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--oEa3x_d6--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/axnb3armf5j1ka17hxws.png" alt="profile"></a></p> <p>The above image is the final result. The code for the backend which populates the svg template can be seen at <a href="https://github.com/avail/readme-backend">avail/readme-backend</a></p> csharp webdev