Where did you get the SVG from? Then what environment was it run in? What is supposed to parse the fill rule? The brick isn’t filled with black. I don’t see white mentioned in there. Does it rely on a white background showing through? When HTML got put together with SVG I don’t think the full SVG spec was supported. In HTML5 it’s possible to provide the colors with CSS. If you can’t work out the color in SVG then you may have to use CSS. There are like 5 or 6 ways to include SVG in HTML5. One is inside an image tag. Then you’d use CSS to repeat the image horizontally with an offset every other row. CSS Zen Garden did that a lot with bit maps. I’m concerned that where ever this SVG came from had a parser that understood all the attributes.