fill property of SVG does not working in Chrome
<p>Trouble is that I can't set value (color) in fill property in Chrome, but in Firefox it works. I tried a lot ways to do it, but there is no result. The only way I see to change color of SVG icon is via jQuery (or JavaScript) by changing id of <code>&lt;symbol&gt;</code>, which is below. Please help me solve this problem!</p>

<p>This is what I need to work in Chrome:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
    &lt;meta charset="UTF-8"&gt;
    &lt;title&gt;Document&lt;/title&gt;
    &lt;style&gt;
        span:hover .pathCrossBtn{
            fill: blue;
        }
    &lt;/style&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
    &lt;svg width="0" height="0" style='display: none;' xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"&gt;
    &lt;symbol viewBox="0 0 2048 2048" id="crossBtn"&gt;
        &lt;path class="pathCrossBtn" fill="red" d="M1618 1450q0 40-28 68l-136     136q-28 28-68 28t-68-28l-294-294-294 294q-28 28-68 28t-68-28l-136-136q-28-28-28-68t28-68l294-294-294-294q-28-28-28-68t28-68l136-136q28-28 68-28t68 28l294 294 294-294q28-28 68-28t68 28l136 136q28 28 28 68t-28 68l-294 294 294 294q28 28 28 68z"/&gt;
    &lt;/symbol&gt;
&lt;/svg&gt;
&lt;span&gt;
    &lt;svg class="crossBtn" viewBox="0 0 2048 2048" width="30" height="30"&gt;
        &lt;use xlink:href="#crossBtn"&gt;&lt;/use&gt;
    &lt;/svg&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>This is bad way to solve my problem which is not approriate for me.</p>

<pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
    &lt;meta charset="UTF-8"&gt;
    &lt;title&gt;Document&lt;/title&gt;
    &lt;script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
    &lt;svg width="0" height="0" style='display: none;' xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"&gt;
        &lt;symbol viewBox="0 0 2048 2048" id="crossBtnBlue"&gt;
          &lt;path class="pathCrossBtn" fill="blue" d="M1618 1450q0 40-28 68l-136 136q-28 28-68 28t-68-28l-294-294-294 294q-28 28-68 28t-68-28l-136-136q-28-28-28-68t28-68l294-294-294-294q-28-28-28-68t28-68l136-136q28-28 68-28t68 28l294 294 294-294q28-28 68-28t68 28l136 136q28 28 28 68t-28 68l-294 294 294 294q28 28 28 68z"/&gt;
        &lt;/symbol&gt;
        &lt;symbol viewBox="0 0 2048 2048" id="crossBtnRed"&gt;
           &lt;path class="pathCrossBtn" fill="red" d="M1618 1450q0 40-28 68l-136 136q-28 28-68 28t-68-28l-294-294-294 294q-28 28-68 28t-68-28l-136-136q-28-28-28-68t28-68l294-294-294-294q-28-28-28-68t28-68l136-136q28-28 68-28t68 28l294 294 294-294q28-28 68-28t68 28l136 136q28 28 28 68t-28 68l-294 294 294 294q28 28 28 68z"/&gt;
        &lt;/symbol&gt;
&lt;/svg&gt;
&lt;span&gt;
    &lt;svg class="crossBtn" viewBox="0 0 2048 2048" width="30" height="30"&gt;
        &lt;use xlink:href="#crossBtnRed"&gt;&lt;/use&gt;
    &lt;/svg&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;script&gt;
;(function(){
    $('.crossBtn')
        .mouseover(function(){
            $('span svg use').attr('xlink:href','#crossBtnBlue');
        })
        .mouseleave(function(){
            $('span svg use').attr('xlink:href','#crossBtnRed');
        })
}());
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
</code></pre>