Draw text in SVG but remove background

Question

I\'m working with an SVG element that should look something like this: (sorry that I have to post this as a link instead of as a picture, but as a new user I didn\'t have pe

Answer 1

"Removing the background" of svg text without scripting can be done using svg filters.

For example:

Which can be used by the text like this:

This will adapt to the string width automatically. If you need some padding you can tweak the x,y,width,height attributes on the filter element.

Hmm, thinking of this again, this might not be what you wanted exactly. But it's possible to adapt the above. Here's your file with this solution: