Message Square Dashed

The message-square-dashed icon represents draft messages and template-based communication in messaging applications. Characterized by a dashed outline speech bubble, this symbol indicates unfinished conversations, message templates, placeholder content, and draft communication states that require completion before sending.

Content creators encounter this icon in email platforms like Mailchimp and marketing automation tools such as HubSpot when working with message templates and draft communications. Social media management platforms including Hootsuite utilize similar iconography for scheduled posts and draft content, while customer service platforms like Zendesk employ this symbol for canned response templates and partially completed support messages.

From a content creation perspective, the dashed outline communicates more than incomplete states - it specifically indicates the iterative nature of communication development, the availability of reusable content templates, and the structured approach to consistent messaging across different contexts. This symbol encourages thoughtful message preparation and content standardization.

Message Square Dashed is one of 1,655 icons in Lucide, made by Lucide Contributors and released under ISC. 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 MessageSquareDashedIcon to components/icons/lucide-message-square-dashed.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 MessageSquareDashedIcon 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.

Yes, if your project has lucide-react: Message Square Dashed is `MessageSquareDashedIcon` there, used as <MessageSquareDashedIcon />. The shadcn.io MCP server answers with that import when it finds the package. Without it, copy the icon from here.

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 Message Square Dashed icon, or any of 1,655 Lucide icons, and install it from a prompt.

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.

Message Square Dashed 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="Message Square Dashed", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. MessageSquareDashedIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <MessageSquareDashedIcon 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. ISC 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: ISC 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 Lucide, Lucide Contributors and the license.

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

Its tags are outline, message, template, preparation, draft and placeholder. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Message Square Dashed in another set.