Expand Left
The expand-left icon represents a symbol used to enlarge or expand an element to the left, often used in UI design to indicate increased size or scope.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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export const ExpandLeftIcon = (props: React.SVGProps<SVGSVGElement>) => (
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 16 16" {...props}>
<path fill="currentColor" fillRule="evenodd" d="M0 12.25a.75.75 0 0 0 1.5 0v-8.5a.75.75 0 0 0-1.5 0zm11.159-8.03a.75.75 0 0 0 0 1.06l1.97 1.97H3.75a.75.75 0 1 0 0 1.5h9.379l-1.97 1.97a.75.75 0 1 0 1.06 1.06l3.25-3.25L16 8l-.53-.53l-3.25-3.25a.75.75 0 0 0-1.061 0" clipRule="evenodd"/>
</svg>
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What the Expand Left icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
The expand-left icon represents a symbol used to enlarge or expand an element to the left, often used in UI design to indicate increased size or scope. It originates from the Gitlab SVGs library. The icon is used to convey a sense of growth or expansion.
In various software applications, expand-left icons like this are commonly used in layout or design tools to allow users to expand panels or sections. For example, design platforms like Sketch use similar icons to enable expansion of interface elements.
From a UX perspective, the expand-left icon communicates that an element can be enlarged or expanded to reveal more content. It helps users understand that they can access additional information or functionality.
Expand Left is one of 414 icons in Gitlab SVGs, made by GitLab B.V. and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 16 × 16 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 ExpandLeftIcon to components/icons/pajamas-expand-left.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 ExpandLeftIcon 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 Expand Left icon, or any of 414 Gitlab SVGs 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 16 × 16 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="Expand Left", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. ExpandLeftIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ExpandLeftIcon 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 Gitlab SVGs, GitLab B.V. and the license.
Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.
7 other libraries draw an icon called Expand Left. 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 UI, navigation, action, layout, workflow and resize. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Expand Left in another set.
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