Text Select Move Back Character

The text-select-move-back-character icon represents a cursor moving back one character in a text document or selection. This icon is commonly used in text editors and word processors to indicate the action of moving the cursor one character to the left.

In software applications, this icon appears in text editing tools like Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and Notion, where users need to navigate through text characters quickly. It helps users to move the cursor one character to the left, saving time and improving productivity.

From a UX perspective, this icon communicates the functionality of moving the cursor one character to the left, providing users with a clear visual cue to understand the action they are about to perform. It helps users to understand the functionality of the icon and how it will affect their text selection.

Text Select Move Back Character is one of 15,390 icons in Material Symbols Light, made by Google and released under Apache 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 TextSelectMoveBackCharacterIcon to components/icons/material-symbols-light-text-select-move-back-character.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 TextSelectMoveBackCharacterIcon 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 Text Select Move Back Character icon, or any of 15,390 Material Symbols Light 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.

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="Text Select Move Back Character", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. TextSelectMoveBackCharacterIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <TextSelectMoveBackCharacterIcon 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 Material Symbols Light, Google and the license.

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

1 other library draws an icon called Text Select Move Back Character. 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, document, typography, editor, selection and cursor. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Text Select Move Back Character in another set.

Material Symbols Light draws many icons in several styles: Outline, Rounded and Sharp next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Text Select Move Back Character's siblings in it.