I Googled this issue for about 30 minutes and was surprised nobody has asked so maybe it's not possible.
I'm using this line to embed the SVG file that I made in AI (note that when I saved the SVG, I had no fill OR stroke on the paths):
<object type="image/svg+xml" data="example.svg" height=600px width=600px>Your browser does not support SVG</object>
This obviously comes up with no image because the SVG file has no fill or stroke. I tried adding in
...fill=yellow>
or
...style="fill:yellow;">
but I'm not having any luck. Thanks!