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title: IconNext
tag: new
---

# IconNext

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**Experimental**

`IconNext` renders the next-generation icon set, which is experimental: names are stable, but the
icon set and component API may change in upcoming 6.x releases.

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See the [**next icons**](#icons/next-icons) page for a searchable list of all available next-generation icons.

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## Usage

```ts copy
import { IconNext } from "@blueprintjs/core";
```

```tsx
<IconNext icon="star" size={30} />
```

`IconNext` renders an icon from the **@blueprintjs/icons/next** set as an inline `<svg>`. Give it an
icon name and it loads the shared next-icon paths module on demand via a dynamic import. The first dynamic
icon loads one lazy chunk containing all next-icon paths; this keeps those paths out of the initial bundle,
but does not create a separate chunk for each icon. You can also pass a JSX element directly.

Many Blueprint components provide an `icon` prop which accepts an icon name or a JSX element to use as
the icon. Pass an `<IconNext>` element to use a next-generation icon in those slots.

@reactExample IconNextExample

## Examples

### Basic

Use the `<IconNext>` component to render a next icon in React. The `icon` prop is typed against
`BlueprintIconsNext`, so editors offer autocomplete for known icon names and reject unknown ones. The
companion `IconNextNames` object maps PascalCase identifiers to those names (for example
`IconNextNames.Star` is `"star"`).

The optional `size` prop sets the exact width and height of the icon; the element can also be sized
with CSS. If `title` is _not_ provided, `aria-hidden` is set to `true`, since an unlabeled icon is
assumed to be decorative.

```tsx
import { IconNext } from "@blueprintjs/core";
import { IconNextNames, IconSize } from "@blueprintjs/icons/next";

// icon name string literals are type checked
<IconNext icon="circle-plus" />
<IconNext icon={IconNextNames.Star} size={20} />

// constants are provided for standard sizes
<IconNext icon="trash" size={IconSize.LARGE} intent="danger" />

// you can also pass all valid HTML props
<IconNext icon="plus" onClick={handleAdd} onKeyDown={handleAddKeys} />
```

### Migrating dynamic icon names

`IconNext` itself accepts next-generation icon names and does not implicitly reinterpret legacy names. For
dynamic values that may already use either naming scheme, normalize the value with `iconNameToIconNextName`.
This helper uses **next-first** precedence, which makes it safe to apply broadly to mixed or already-migrated
values:

```tsx
import { IconNext } from "@blueprintjs/core";
import { iconNameToIconNextName } from "@blueprintjs/icons/next";

const nextIconName = iconNameToIconNextName(savedIconName);

return nextIconName === undefined ? null : <IconNext icon={nextIconName} />;
```

```ts
iconNameToIconNextName("house"); // "house" (already a next name)
iconNameToIconNextName("home"); // "house" (renamed legacy icon)
iconNameToIconNextName("user"); // "user" (ambiguous name; next meaning wins)
iconNameToIconNextName("unknown"); // undefined
```

When the source is known to contain legacy names, use `legacyIconNameToIconNextName` instead. It always
interprets its input using the legacy mapping, including names that also exist in the next set:

```ts
import { legacyIconNameToIconNextName } from "@blueprintjs/icons/next";

legacyIconNameToIconNextName("home"); // "house"
legacyIconNameToIconNextName("user"); // "user-circle" (legacy meaning wins)
legacyIconNameToIconNextName("house"); // undefined (not a legacy name)
```

Custom sizes are supported. The following React element:

```tsx
<IconNext icon="star" size={30} />
```

...renders this HTML markup:

```xml
<span class="@ns-icon @ns-icon-star" aria-hidden="true">
    <svg data-icon="star" width="30" height="30" viewBox="0 0 16 16" role="img">
        <path d="..."></path>
    </svg>
</span>
```

Unlike the legacy `Icon` component, next icons are drawn on a single 16px grid (note the
`viewBox="0 0 16 16"` above) and scaled to the requested `size`, so there is no separate 20px grid to
switch between.

### Outlined and filled variants

Next icons come in two styles. Every icon has an **outlined** version (the default); a subset also have
a **filled** version. Select the style with the `variant` prop:

```tsx
<IconNext icon="play" />
<IconNext icon="play" variant="filled" />
```

If `"filled"` is requested for an icon that has no filled version (for example `"anchor"`), the
component falls back to the outlined style and logs a development-mode warning.

### Usage with other components

Many Blueprint components accept an `icon` prop which can be specified as either a string icon name or a
JSX element. To use a next-generation icon, pass an `<IconNext>` element:

```tsx
import { Button, IconNext } from "@blueprintjs/core";

<Button icon={<IconNext icon="magnifying-glass" />} text="Search" />
<Button icon={<IconNext icon="bell" variant="filled" />} text="Notifications" />
```

## Props interface

@interface DefaultIconNextProps

## DOM attributes

The `<IconNext>` component forwards extra HTML attributes to its root DOM element. By default, the root
element is a `<span>` wrapper around the icon `<svg>`. The tag name of this element may be customized via
the `tagName` prop as either:

- a custom HTML tag name (for example `<div>` instead of the default `<span>` wrapper), or
- `null`, which makes the component omit the wrapper element and only render the `<svg>` as its root element

By default, `<IconNext>` supports a limited set of DOM attributes which are assignable to _all_ HTML and
SVG elements. In some cases, you may want to use more specific attributes which are only available on HTML
elements or SVG elements. The `<IconNext>` component has a generic type which allows for this more advanced
usage. You can specify a type parameter on the component opening tag to (for example) set an HTML-only
attribute:

```tsx
import { IconNext } from "@blueprintjs/core";
import * as React from "react";

function Example() {
    const [isDraggable, setIsDraggable] = React.useState();
    // explicitly declare type of the root element so that we can set the "draggable" DOM attribute
    return <IconNext<HTMLSpanElement> icon="house" draggable={isDraggable} />;
}
```

Another use case for this type parameter API may be to get the correct type definition for an event
handler on the root element when _omitting_ the icon wrapper element:

```tsx
import { IconNext } from "@blueprintjs/core";
import * as React from "react";

function Example() {
    const handleClick: React.MouseEventHandler<SVGSVGElement> = () => {
        /* ... */
    };
    // explicitly declare type of the root element so that we can narrow the type of the event handler
    return <IconNext<SVGSVGElement> icon="plus" onClick={handleClick} tagName={null} />;
}
```