I can not get around this. No matter what I do, I can not have the fill change on my svg. I have tried using <set> and <animate> and neither does anything. However, when I change to set or animate fill-opacity, everything works fine. What am I doing wrong? Is the file just totally unusable for this?

Below is the section of the code that I have edited.

<g id="english">
<animate attributeType="CSS"

attributeName="fill" from="black" to="red"

begin="tEnglish.mouseover" dur="1s"

fill="freeze" />
<animate attributeType="CSS"

attributeName="fill" from="red" to="black"

begin="tEnglish.mouseout" dur="1s" fill="freeze"

/>
<path id="gy" fill="black"

stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="0.5"

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"/>
</g>

I tried also
<set attributeType="CSS"
attributeName="fill" from="black" to="red"
begin="tEnglish.mouseover" end="tEnglish.mouseout"
/>

But nothing seems to work. Is this just not something you can do in SVG with a Path object? I am totally vexed.

Thank you all in advance for your help.

css support for svg is pretty patchy....nevertheless i think your issue is that you might be confusing svg/css/dom attribute names and allowable values...or is that me getting confused?