Create text inside a rectangle using inkscape

Question

I placed the text inside the rectangle using inkscape, so the tree looks like

<svg:rect><svg:text><svg:tspan>text.... 

The problem is that I do not see the text. I tried playing with the opacity of the rectangle to no avail. Should there be a way to do this from the user interface?

Edit

sample on request

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) -->
<svg
   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
   xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
   xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
   xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
   xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
   width="184.25197"
   height="262.20471"
   id="svg2"
   sodipodi:version="0.32"
   inkscape:version="0.46"
   version="1.0"
   sodipodi:docname="ex1.svg"
   inkscape:output_extension="org.inkscape.output.svg.inkscape">
  <defs
     id="defs4">
    <inkscape:perspective
       sodipodi:type="inkscape:persp3d"
       inkscape:vp_x="0 : 526.18109 : 1"
       inkscape:vp_y="0 : 1000 : 0"
       inkscape:vp_z="744.09448 : 526.18109 : 1"
       inkscape:persp3d-origin="372.04724 : 350.78739 : 1"
       id="perspective10" />
  </defs>
  <sodipodi:namedview
     id="base"
     pagecolor="#ffffff"
     bordercolor="#666666"
     borderopacity="1.0"
     gridtolerance="10000"
     guidetolerance="10"
     objecttolerance="10"
     inkscape:pageopacity="0.0"
     inkscape:pageshadow="2"
     inkscape:zoom="0.64"
     inkscape:cx="195.9221"
     inkscape:cy="335.3072"
     inkscape:document-units="px"
     inkscape:current-layer="layer1"
     showgrid="false"
     inkscape:window-width="640"
     inkscape:window-height="675"
     inkscape:window-x="44"
     inkscape:window-y="44" />
  <metadata
     id="metadata7">
    <rdf:RDF>
      <cc:Work
         rdf:about="">
        <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
        <dc:type
           rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
      </cc:Work>
    </rdf:RDF>
  </metadata>
  <g
     inkscape:label="Layer 1"
     inkscape:groupmode="layer"
     id="layer1">
    <rect
       style="opacity:0.25480766;fill:#ff0000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:12.94795799;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-opacity:1"
       id="rect2383"
       width="150.87796"
       height="84.226181"
       x="18.221733"
       y="39.557121">
      <text
         xml:space="preserve"
         style="font-size:56.0331955px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width:1px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1;font-family:Bitstream Vera Sans"
         x="44.815186"
         y="114.0088"
         id="text2385"
         transform="scale(1.0054479,0.9945816)"><tspan
           sodipodi:role="line"
           id="tspan2387"
           x="44.815186"
           y="114.0088">text</tspan></text>
    </rect>
  </g>
</svg>

I would expect to see this in inkscape.

The workaround is to place the text above the layer above the field (the intention is that the window obscures the layers below it) and not try to get smart nested tags. Shame it doesn't work though.

Answer 1

, svg .

rect, .