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Animated textPath

This example demonstrates how to animate a path and a textPath at the same time. I wouldn’t use this technique—the text is scrunched up at the beginning of the arc at the beginning of the animation. Instead, I would use the arc to clip the text, so that the text is revealed as the arc expands.

This example also demonstrates two unfortunate bugs in WebKit browsers:

See related Stack Overflow question.