External Link Alt
The external-link-alt icon represents the action of opening or leaving a current context to access external information or resources.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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External Link Alt in your framework
In any framework. Customize it above, and the code follows.
export const ExternalLinkAltIcon = (props: React.SVGProps<SVGSVGElement>) => (
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 32 32" {...props}>
<path fill="currentColor" d="M18 5v2h5.563L11.28 19.281l1.438 1.438L25 8.437V14h2V5zM5 9v18h18V14l-2 2v9H7V11h9l2-2z"/>
</svg>
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External Link Alt in 3 more libraries
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What the External Link Alt icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
The external-link-alt icon represents the action of opening or leaving a current context to access external information or resources. It is commonly used in user interfaces to indicate a link to an external website or resource. The icon plays a significant role in facilitating navigation and information access.
The external-link-alt icon appears in various software and platforms, including web browsers, online applications, and document editors. For example, it may be used in a web page to indicate a link to an external resource or in a document editor to indicate a link to an external website.
From a UX perspective, the external-link-alt icon communicates the possibility of accessing external information or resources. It helps users understand the available actions and navigate to external contexts.
External Link Alt is one of 1,544 icons in Line Awesome, made by Icons8 and released under Apache 2.0. It is drawn on a 32 × 32 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 ExternalLinkAltIcon to components/icons/la-external-link-alt.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 ExternalLinkAltIcon 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 32 × 32 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 Alt", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. ExternalLinkAltIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ExternalLinkAltIcon 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. Apache 2.0 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: Apache 2.0 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 Line Awesome, Icons8 and the license.
Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.
3 other libraries draw an icon called External Link Alt. 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, navigation, action and link. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for External Link Alt in another set.
Line Awesome draws many icons in several styles: Solid next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see External Link Alt's siblings in it.
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