Chevron Left
The chevron-left icon represents a previous or back navigation functionality, often used to indicate that users can access previous content or views.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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export const ChevronLeftIcon = (props: React.SVGProps<SVGSVGElement>) => (
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" {...props}>
<path fill="currentColor" d="m14 20l-8-8l8-8l1.414 1.414L8.828 12l6.586 6.586z"/>
</svg>
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What the Chevron Left icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
The chevron-left icon represents a previous or back navigation functionality, often used to indicate that users can access previous content or views. This icon is commonly used in user interfaces to facilitate navigation and content exploration. Its widespread use has made it a recognizable symbol for users to expect access to previous content or views.
In software applications, the chevron-left icon appears in various contexts, such as pagination, tabbed interfaces, or navigation menus. For instance, the icon is used in Google's Material Design to indicate a previous page or in Bootstrap to signal a back navigation option. Additionally, many websites use this icon to enable users to access previous content or views.
From a UX perspective, the chevron-left icon effectively communicates the availability of previous content or views, providing users with a clear indication of the potential for navigation. The icon's simplicity and universality ensure that users can quickly understand and respond to the previous or back navigation signal.
Chevron Left is one of 207 icons in Gridicons, made by Automattic and released under GPL 2.0. It is drawn on a 24 × 24 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 ChevronLeftIcon to components/icons/gridicons-chevron-left.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 ChevronLeftIcon 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 24 × 24 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="Chevron Left", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. ChevronLeftIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ChevronLeftIcon 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.
GPL 2.0 is copyleft: what you ship with the icons may have to use the same license. Check it fits your project first. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.
Keep the GPL 2.0 notice with the icons, and credit Automattic as it asks. GPL 2.0 is copyleft, so what you ship with them may have to use the same 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 Chevron Left. 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 UI, interface, navigation, action, back and previous. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Chevron Left in another set.
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