Drawing A Polygon with SVG

A polyline element is used to create any drawing that consists of only strait lines. It is very similar to the polygon in that it uses a points attribute to store the points.

SVG Polyline Drawing

<svg height="160" width="200">
  <polyline points="0,40 40,40 40,80 80,80 80,120 120,120 120,160"
      fill="none" stroke="purple" stroke-width="3"/>
</svg>

Note that we must use the fill=none attribute or the rendering tool will try to fill in the area inside the polyline.

This may not be the effect that you want!