External Link
The external-link icon represents outbound navigation, new window opening, and external resource linking features in navigation and content applications.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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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 8 8" {...props}>
<path fill="currentColor" d="M0 0v8h8V6H7v1H1V1h1V0zm4 0l1.5 1.5L3 4l1 1l2.5-2.5L8 4V0z"/>
</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 outbound navigation, new window opening, and external resource linking features in navigation and content applications. Featuring an arrow pointing out of a box or square, this symbol indicates links to external websites, new tab opening, outbound navigation, and external resource access across platforms where destination differentiation is important.
In modern applications like documentation sites or Wikipedia, you'll see this icon marking links that navigate to external domains. It appears in content management systems when indicating outbound references, or in web applications like Notion when distinguishing between internal page links and external website navigation.
From a navigation perspective, the external-link symbol communicates more than just 'link' - it specifically indicates boundary crossing, the departure from the current site or application, and the user experience change of navigating to external content. This outbound arrow metaphor helps users understand they're leaving the current context.
External Link is one of 223 icons in Open Iconic, made by Iconic and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 8 × 8 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 ExternalLinkIcon to components/icons/oi-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 8 × 8 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", 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 Open Iconic, Iconic 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, link, window, open and external. 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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