iconify/packages/react

Iconify for React

Note: this documentation is for version 2.0. It has not been updated for 3.0 yet.

Iconify for React is not yet another icon component! There are many of them already.

Iconify is the most versatile icon framework.

• Unified icon framework that can be used with any icon library.
• Out of the box includes 80+ icon sets with more than 70,000 icons.
• Embed icons in HTML with SVG framework or components for front-end frameworks.
• Embed icons in designs with plug-ins for Figma, Sketch and Adobe XD.
• Add icon search to your applications with Iconify Icon Finder.

For more information visit https://iconify.design/.

Iconify for React is a part of Iconify framework that makes it easy to use many icon libraries with React.

Iconify for React features:

• Easy to use.
• Bundles only icons that you need.
• Change icon size and colour by changing font size and colour.
• Renders pixel-perfect SVG.

Installation

If you are using NPM:

npm install --save-dev @iconify/react

If you are using Yarn:

yarn add --dev @iconify/react

This package does not include icons. Icons are split into separate packages that available at NPM. See below.

Usage

Install @iconify/react and packages for selected icon sets. Import Icon and/or InlineIcon from @iconify/react and icon data for icon you want to use:

import { Icon, InlineIcon } from '@iconify/react';
import home from '@iconify-icons/mdi-light/home';
import faceWithMonocle from '@iconify-icons/twemoji/face-with-monocle';

Then use Icon or InlineIcon component with icon data as "icon" parameter:

<Icon icon={home} />
<p>This is some text with <InlineIcon icon={faceWithMonocle} /></p>

String syntax

String syntax passes icon name to the component.

With this method the icon needs to be added only once. That means if you have multiple components using 'home' icon, you can add it only in your main component. This makes it easy to swap icons for an entire application.

import React from 'react';
import { Icon, addIcon } from '@iconify/react';
import homeIcon from '@iconify-icons/mdi-light/home';

addIcon('home', homeIcon);

export function MyComponent() {
	return (
		<div>
			<Icon icon="home" />
		</div>
	);
}

Instead of adding icons one by one using addIcon function, you can import an entire icon set using addCollection function:

import React from 'react';
import { Icon, addCollection } from '@iconify/react';

// Import requires bundler that can import JSON files
import jamIcons from '@iconify/json/json/jam.json';

// Function automatically adds prefix from icon set, which in this case is 'jam', followed by ':', so
// icon names added by function should be called with prefix, such as 'jam:home'
addCollection(jamIcons);

// Example without prefix, all icons will have names as is, such as 'home'
// addCollection(jamIcons, false);

export function MyComponent() {
	return (
		<div>
			<Icon icon="jam:home" />
		</div>
	);
}

Example above imports an entire icon set. To learn how to create smaller bundles, check out Iconify documentation: https://docs.iconify.design/sources/bundles/

Next.js notice

Code above will currently fail with Next.js. This is because Next.js uses outdated packaging software that does not support ES modules. But do not worry, there is a simple solution: switch to CommonJS icon packages.

To switch to CommonJS package, replace this line in example above:

import homeIcon from '@iconify-icons/mdi-light/home';

with

import homeIcon from '@iconify/icons-mdi-light/home';

All icons are available as ES modules for modern bundler and as CommonJS modules for outdated bundlers.

For more details, see "Icon packages" section below.

Icon and InlineIcon

Both components are the same, the only difference is InlineIcon has a negative vertical alignment, so it behaves like a glyph.

Use Icon for decorations, InlineIcon if you are migrating from glyph font.

Visual example to show the difference between inline and block modes:

Icon component properties

icon property is mandatory. It tells component what icon to render. If the property value is invalid, the component will render an empty icon. The value can be a string containing the icon name (icon must be registered before use by calling addIcon or addCollection, see instructions above) or an object containing the icon data.

The icon component has the following optional properties:

• inline. Changes icon behaviour to match icon fonts. See "Icon and InlineIcon" section above.
• width and height. Icon dimensions. The default values are "1em" for both. See "Dimensions" section below.
• color. Icon colour. This is the same as setting colour in style. See "Icon colour" section below.
• flip, hFlip, vFlip. Flip icon horizontally and/or vertically. See "Transformations" section below.
• rotate. Rotate icon by 90, 180 or 270 degrees. See "Transformations" section below.
• align, vAlign, hAlign, slice. Icon alignment. See "Alignment" section below.

Other properties and events

In addition to the properties mentioned above, the icon component accepts any other properties and events. All other properties and events will be passed to generated SVG element, so you can do stuff like assigning onClick event, setting the inline style, add title and so on.

Dimensions

By default, icon height is "1em". With is dynamic, calculated using the icon's width to height ratio. This makes it easy to change icon size by changing font-size in the stylesheet, just like icon fonts.

There are several ways to change icon dimensions:

• Setting font-size in style (or fontSize if you are using inline style).
• Setting width and/or height property.

Values for width and height can be numbers or strings.

If you set only one dimension, another dimension will be calculated using the icon's width to height ratio. For example, if the icon size is 16 x 24, you set the height to 48, the width will be set to 32. Calculations work not only with numbers, but also with string values.

Dimensions as numbers

You can use numbers for width and height.

<Icon icon={homeIcon} height={24} />

<Icon icon="experiment" width={16} height={16} />

Number values are treated as pixels. That means in examples above, values are identical to "24px" and "16px".

Dimensions as strings without units

If you use strings without units, they are treated the same as numbers in an example above.

<Icon icon={homeIcon} height="24" />

<Icon icon="experiment" width="16" height={'16'} />

Dimensions as strings with units

You can use units in width and height values:

<Icon icon={homeIcon} height="2em" />

Be careful when using calc, view port based units or percentages. In SVG element they might not behave the way you expect them to behave and when using such units, you should consider settings both width and height.

Dimensions as 'auto'

Keyword "auto" sets dimensions to the icon's viewBox dimensions. For example, for 24 x 24 icon using height="auto" sets height to 24 pixels.

<Icon icon={homeIcon} height="auto" />

Icon colour

There are two types of icons: icons that do not have a palette and icons that do have a palette.

Icons that do have a palette, such as emojis, cannot be customised. Setting colour to such icons will not change anything.

Icons that do not have a palette can be customised. By default, colour is set to "currentColor", which means the icon's colour matches text colour. To change the colour you can:

• Set color style or use stylesheet to target icon. If you are using the stylesheet, target svg element.
• Add color property.

Examples:

Using color property:

<Icon icon={alertIcon} color="red" />
<Icon icon={alertIcon} color="#f00" />

Using inline style:

<Icon icon={alertIcon} style={{color: 'red'}} />
<Icon icon={alertIcon} style={{color: '#f00'}} />

Using stylesheet:

<Icon icon={alertIcon} className="red-icon" />

.red-icon {
	color: red;
}

Transformations

You can rotate and flip the icon.

This might seem redundant because icon can also be rotated and flipped using CSS transformations. So why do transformation properties exist? Because it is a different type of transformation.

• CSS transformations transform the entire icon.
• Icon transformations transform the contents of the icon.

If you have a square icon, this makes no difference. However, if you have an icon that has different width and height values, it makes a huge difference.

Rotating 16x24 icon by 90 degrees results in:

• CSS transformation keeps 16x24 bounding box, which might cause the icon to overlap text around it.
• Icon transformation changes bounding box to 24x16, rotating content inside an icon.

TODO: show visual example

Flipping an icon

There are several properties available to flip an icon:

• hFlip: boolean property, flips icon horizontally.
• vFlip: boolean property, flips icon vertically.
• flip: shorthand string property, can flip icon horizontally and/or vertically.

Examples:

Flip an icon horizontally:

<Icon icon={alertIcon} hFlip={true} />
<Icon icon={alertIcon} flip="horizontal" />

Flip an icon vertically:

<Icon icon={alertIcon} vFlip={true} />
<Icon icon={alertIcon} flip="vertical" />

Flip an icon horizontally and vertically (the same as 180 degrees rotation):

<Icon icon={alertIcon} hFlip={true} vFlip={true} />
<Icon icon={alertIcon} flip="horizontal,vertical" />

Rotating an icon

An icon can be rotated by 90, 180 and 270 degrees. Only contents of the icon are rotated.

To rotate an icon, use rotate property. Value can be a string (degrees or percentages) or a number.

Number values are 1 for 90 degrees, 2 for 180 degrees, 3 for 270 degrees.

Examples of 90 degrees rotation:

<Icon icon={alertIcon} rotate={1} />
<Icon icon={alertIcon} rotate="90deg" />
<Icon icon={alertIcon} rotate="25%" />

Alignment

Alignment matters only if you set the icon's width and height properties that do not match the viewBox with and height.

For example, if the icon is 24x24 and you set the width to 32 and height to 24. You must set both width and height properties for this to happen or use stylesheet to set both icon's width and height.

Stretching SVG

When you use incorrect width/height ratio for other images, browser stretches those images.

Unlike other images, SVG elements do not stretch. Instead, browser either adds space on sides of the icon (this is the default behaviour) or crops part of the icon.

Alignment properties

You can control the behaviour of SVG when using incorrect width/height ratio by setting alignment properties:

• hAlign: string property to set horizontal alignment. Possible values are "left", "center" and "right".
• vAlign: string property to set vertical alignment. Possible values are "top", "middle" and "bottom".
• slice: boolean property. See below.
• align: shorthand string property. Value is the combination of vertical alignment values, horizontal alignment values, "meet" (same as slice={false}) and "slice" (same as slice={true}) separated by comma.

Example of aligning an icon to the left if icon is not square:

<Icon icon="experiment" width="1em" height="1em" hAlign="left" />

Slice

Slice property tells the browser how to deal with extra space.

By default, slice is disabled. The browser will scale the icon to fit the bounding box.

Example showing the icon behaviour when slice is disabled with various alignment values:

If slice is enabled, the browser will scale the icon to fill the bounding box and hide parts that do not fit.

Example showing the icon behaviour when slice is enabled with various alignment values:

Icon Packages

As of version 1.1.0 this package no longer includes icons. There are over 70k icons, each in its own file. That takes a lot of disc space. Because of that icons were moved to multiple separate packages, one package per icon set.

You can find all available icons at https://iconify.design/icon-sets/

Browse or search icons, click any icon and you will see a "React" tab that will give you exact code for the React component.

Import format for each icon is @iconify-icons/{prefix}/{icon} (for ES modules) or @iconify/icons-{prefix}/{icon} (for CommonJS modules), where {prefix} is collection prefix, and {icon} is the icon name.

Usage examples for a few popular icon packages:

Material Design Icons

Package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@iconify-icons/mdi

Icons list: https://iconify.design/icon-sets/mdi/

Installation:

npm install --save-dev @iconify-icons/mdi

Usage:

import { Icon, InlineIcon } from '@iconify/react';
import home from '@iconify-icons/mdi/home';
import accountCheck from '@iconify-icons/mdi/account-check';

<Icon icon={home} />
<p>This is some text with <InlineIcon icon={accountCheck} /></p>

Simple Icons (big collection of logos)

Package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@iconify-icons/simple-icons

Icons list: https://iconify.design/icon-sets/simple-icons/

Installation:

npm install --save-dev @iconify-icons/simple-icons

Usage:

import { Icon, InlineIcon } from '@iconify/react';
import behanceIcon from '@iconify-icons/simple-icons/behance';
import mozillafirefoxIcon from '@iconify-icons/simple-icons/mozillafirefox';

<Icon icon={behanceIcon} />
<p>
	Mozilla Firefox <InlineIcon icon={mozillafirefoxIcon} /> is the best
	browser!
</p>

Font Awesome 5 Solid

Package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@iconify-icons/fa-solid

Icons list: https://iconify.design/icon-sets/fa-solid/

Installation:

npm install --save-dev @iconify-icons/fa-solid

Usage:

import { Icon, InlineIcon } from '@iconify/react';
import toggleOn from '@iconify-icons/fa-solid/toggle-on';
import chartBar from '@iconify-icons/fa-solid/chart-bar';

<Icon icon={chartBar} />
<p><InlineIcon icon={toggleOn} /> Click to toggle</p>

Noto Emoji

Package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@iconify-icons/noto

Icons list: https://iconify.design/icon-sets/noto/

Installation:

npm install --save-dev @iconify-icons/noto

Usage:

import { Icon, InlineIcon } from '@iconify/react';
import greenApple from '@iconify-icons/noto/green-apple';
import huggingFace from '@iconify-icons/noto/hugging-face';

<Icon icon={greenApple} />
<p>Its time for hugs <InlineIcon icon={huggingFace} />!</p>

Other icon sets

There are over 50 icon sets. This readme shows only a few examples. See Iconify icon sets for a full list of available icon sets. Click any icon to see code.

License

React component is released with MIT license.

© 2020 Iconify OÜ

See Iconify icon sets page for list of collections and their licenses.