External Link
The external-link icon represents a link or connection to an external resource, often used to indicate that a user will be taken to a different website or platform.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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export const ExternalLinkIcon = (props: React.SVGProps<SVGSVGElement>) => (
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 640 640" {...props}>
<path fill="currentColor" d="M384 64c-17.7 0-32 14.3-32 32s14.3 32 32 32h82.7L265.3 329.4c-12.5 12.5-12.5 32.8 0 45.3s32.8 12.5 45.3 0L512 173.3V256c0 17.7 14.3 32 32 32s32-14.3 32-32V96c0-17.7-14.3-32-32-32zm-240 96c-44.2 0-80 35.8-80 80v256c0 44.2 35.8 80 80 80h256c44.2 0 80-35.8 80-80v-80c0-17.7-14.3-32-32-32s-32 14.3-32 32v80c0 8.8-7.2 16-16 16H144c-8.8 0-16-7.2-16-16V240c0-8.8 7.2-16 16-16h80c17.7 0 32-14.3 32-32s-14.3-32-32-32z"/>
</svg>
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FAQ
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What the External Link icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
The external-link icon represents a link or connection to an external resource, often used to indicate that a user will be taken to a different website or platform. The icon typically features an arrow extending outward from a box or circle.
In various software applications and platforms, the external-link icon appears in contexts such as web browsers, email clients, or online applications. For instance, it may be used in Wikipedia or Stack Overflow to link to external resources.
From a UX perspective, the external-link icon effectively communicates that a link or connection to an external resource exists, enabling users to understand the action and its consequences. The icon's design helps users quickly identify and interact with external links.
External Link is one of 1,983 icons in Font Awesome Solid, made by Dave Gandy and released under CC BY 4.0. It is drawn on a 640 × 640 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 ExternalLinkIcon to components/icons/fa7-solid-external-link.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 ExternalLinkIcon 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.
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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 640 × 640 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="External Link", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. ExternalLinkIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ExternalLinkIcon 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 (Dave Gandy) 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 Dave Gandy, 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.
8 other libraries draw an icon called External Link. 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, action, media, status and social. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for External Link in another set.
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