diff --git a/renderers/react/CHANGELOG.md b/renderers/react/CHANGELOG.md
index 3762394b6..25878eda2 100644
--- a/renderers/react/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/renderers/react/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ## Unreleased
 
+- (v0_8) Exclude SVG elements and descendants from CSS reset to restore SVG rendering. [#1252](https://github.com/google/A2UI/pull/1252)
+
 - **BREAKING CHANGE**: Renamed `createReactComponent` to `createComponentImplementation`.
 - **BREAKING CHANGE**: Renamed `createBinderlessComponent` to `createBinderlessComponentImplementation`.
 - **BREAKING CHANGE**: Removed `minimalCatalog`.
diff --git a/renderers/react/src/v0_8/styles/reset.ts b/renderers/react/src/v0_8/styles/reset.ts
index c6e38ced9..4b8c0a92a 100644
--- a/renderers/react/src/v0_8/styles/reset.ts
+++ b/renderers/react/src/v0_8/styles/reset.ts
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
  */
 export const resetStyles: string = `
 @layer a2ui-reset {
-  :where(.a2ui-surface) :where(*) {
+  :where(.a2ui-surface) :where(*:not(svg, svg *:not(foreignObject *))) {
     all: revert;
   }
 }
diff --git a/renderers/react/tests/v0_8/unit/components/SvgReset.test.tsx b/renderers/react/tests/v0_8/unit/components/SvgReset.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..26f5143a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/renderers/react/tests/v0_8/unit/components/SvgReset.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+import {describe, it, expect} from 'vitest';
+import {render} from '@testing-library/react';
+import React from 'react';
+import {A2UIProvider} from '../../../../src/v0_8';
+import {resetStyles} from '../../../../src/v0_8/styles/reset';
+describe('SVG Reset Exclusion', () => {
+  it('should have the correct CSS selector in resetStyles', () => {
+    expect(resetStyles).toContain(':not(svg, svg *:not(foreignObject *))');
+  });
+  it('should allow presentational attributes on SVG elements', () => {
+    const {container} = render(
+      <A2UIProvider>
+        <div className="a2ui-surface">
+          <svg fill="red" data-testid="test-svg" width="100" height="100">
+            <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" />
+          </svg>
+        </div>
+      </A2UIProvider>,
+    );
+    const svg = container.querySelector('svg');
+    expect(svg).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(svg).toHaveAttribute('fill', 'red');
+  });
+});