External Link
The external-link icon represents a link to an external website or resource, often used to indicate that the user will be taken to a different location.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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External Link in your framework
In any framework. Customize it above, and the code follows.
export const ExternalLinkIcon = (props: React.SVGProps<SVGSVGElement>) => (
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" {...props}>
<path fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeLinecap="round" strokeLinejoin="round" strokeWidth="2" d="M10 6H6a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v10a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h10a2 2 0 0 0 2-2v-4M14 4h6m0 0v6m0-6L10 14"/>
</svg>
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External Link in 8 more libraries
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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 to an external website or resource, often used to indicate that the user will be taken to a different location. It is commonly used in various contexts, including software, websites, and documentation. The external link symbol is a widely recognized icon for navigation to external resources.
In software and websites, the external-link icon is often used to indicate links to external resources, such as websites, articles, or documentation. For example, it may appear in a navigation menu or in a list of resources. The icon helps users understand that they will be taken to a different location.
From a UX perspective, the external-link icon communicates a sense of navigation to the user. It helps users understand that they will be taken to a different location and provides a clear visual cue for links to external resources.
External Link is one of 385 icons in HeroIcons v1 Outline, made by Refactoring UI Inc and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 24 × 24 grid with a 2 stroke.
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/heroicons-outline-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 24 × 24 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation, and its stroke.
External Link is a line icon drawn with a stroke width of 2. Change it in Customize before you copy, or pass strokeWidth to the installed component when all of its strokes share one width.
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. 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 HeroIcons v1 Outline, Refactoring UI Inc 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 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 navigation, web, internet, link, website and URL. 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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