Collapse

The collapse icon represents section minimization and content folding functionality in interface layouts. Featuring upward arrows or minus symbols, this icon has become the standard control for collapsing sections, minimizing panels, and folding content across expandable interfaces and accordion components.

In modern applications like accordion menus or expandable sections, you'll see this icon enabling content collapse and section minimization. It appears in sidebar panels when minimizing sections, or in applications like documentation sites when users need to fold content and reduce visible information.

From a layout perspective, the collapse arrows communicate more than just 'close' - they specifically indicate content folding, vertical space reduction, and the preservation of content in minimized state. This distinction helps users understand content remains accessible rather than being deleted.

Collapse is one of 329 icons in Flat Color Icons, made by Icons8 and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 48 × 48 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 CollapseIcon to components/icons/flat-color-icons-collapse.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 CollapseIcon 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 Collapse icon, or any of 329 Flat Color Icons icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's multicolor, so it keeps its own colors.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 48 × 48 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It keeps its own colors in light and dark mode, so check it against both backgrounds. 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="Collapse", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. CollapseIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <CollapseIcon 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. MIT allows commercial use; keep the license notice when you ship the icons' source files. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: MIT only asks that you keep the license notice if you ship the icons' source files. Icons installed with the shadcn CLI already start with a comment naming Flat Color Icons, Icons8 and the license.

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

8 other libraries draw an icon called Collapse. 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 close, collapse, minimize, section, contract and fold. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Collapse in another set.