Caret Top

The caret-top icon represents a caret or arrow pointing upwards. The visual design of the icon is a simple illustration of a caret, with a triangular shape and a line extending from the tip of the triangle. The caret icon originates from the need to represent an expandable or collapsible menu in user interfaces.

In real-world applications, the caret-top icon appears in software and platforms that use dropdown menus, such as navigation menus, select boxes, and accordions. It is commonly used in web applications, mobile apps, and desktop software to indicate that a section of content can be expanded or collapsed.

From a UX perspective, the caret-top icon communicates the concept of expandability or collapsibility. It helps users understand that a section of content can be toggled on or off, and it provides a visual cue that there is more content available.

Caret Top is one of 562 icons in CoreUI Free, made by creativeLabs Łukasz Holeczek and released under CC BY 4.0. It is drawn on a 512 × 512 grid.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds CaretTopIcon to components/icons/cil-caret-top.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed CaretTopIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Caret Top icon, or any of 562 CoreUI Free icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's drawn in currentColor, so it takes the text color wherever you use it: a class like text-primary recolors it. To bake a color in, set one in Customize before you copy.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 512 × 512 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It follows the text color, so with text-foreground (or any theme token) it changes with your light and dark themes. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Caret Top", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. CaretTopIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <CaretTopIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Yes, with credit: CC BY 4.0 asks you to credit the author (creativeLabs Łukasz Holeczek) where you use the icons. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

Yes. CC BY 4.0 asks you to credit the author where you use the icons, for example "Icons by creativeLabs Łukasz Holeczek, CC BY 4.0" on an about or credits page.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

3 other libraries draw an icon called Caret Top. The Other libraries section on this page shows each one, so you can compare them and open the one that fits your style.

Its tags are interface, button, arrow, menu, toggle and dropdown. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Caret Top in another set.