npm package: @iconify/react-with-api
Description: Iconify icon component for React.
Author: Vjacheslav Trushkin
Latest version: 1.0.0-rc.7
Deprecated: API fuctionality was moved to @iconify/react

# Iconify for React with API support

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/](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:

```bash
npm install --save-dev @iconify/react-with-api
```

If you are using Yarn:

```bash
yarn add --dev @iconify/react-with-api
```

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

## Usage

Install `@iconify/react-with-api` and packages for selected icon sets. Import `Icon` and/or `InlineIcon` from `@iconify/react-with-api`.

### String syntax

String syntax passes icon name to the component.

```jsx
import React from 'react';
import { Icon, InlineIcon } from '@iconify/react-with-api';

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

Component will retrieve data for icon from Iconify API and render it.

### Offline usage

If you only want to use component offline, check out [@iconify/react](https://github.com/iconify/iconify/tree/master/packages/react) component.

This component can behave like `@iconify/react` too. Instead of icon names you can use icon data for icon you want to use:

```typescript
import { Icon, InlineIcon } from '@iconify/react-with-api';
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:

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

## 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:

![Inline icon](https://iconify.design/assets/images/inline.png)

## 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`, 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 `[attr]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`.

```jsx
<Icon icon="mdi:home" height={24} />
```

```jsx
<Icon icon="mdi:home" 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.

```jsx
<Icon icon="mdi:home" height="24" />
```

```jsx
<Icon icon="mdi:home" width="16" height={'16'} />
```

#### Dimensions as strings with units

You can use units in width and height values:

```jsx
<Icon icon="mdi:home" 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.

```jsx
<Icon icon="mdi:home" 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:

```jsx
<Icon icon="mdi-light:alert" color="red" />
<Icon icon="mdi-light:alert" color="#f00" />
```

Using inline style:

```jsx
<Icon icon="mdi-light:alert" style={{color: 'red'}} />
<Icon icon="mdi-light:alert" style={{color: '#f00'}} />
```

Using stylesheet:

```jsx
<Icon icon="mdi-light:alert" className="red-icon" />
```

```css
.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:

```jsx
<Icon icon="mdi-light:alert" hFlip={true} />
<Icon icon="mdi-light:alert" flip="horizontal" />
```

Flip an icon vertically:

```jsx
<Icon icon="mdi-light:alert" vFlip={true} />
<Icon icon="mdi-light:alert" flip="vertical" />
```

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

```jsx
<Icon icon="mdi-light:alert" hFlip={true} vFlip={true} />
<Icon icon="mdi-light:alert" 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:

```jsx
<Icon icon="mdi-light:alert" rotate={1} />
<Icon icon="mdi-light:alert" rotate="90deg" />
<Icon icon="mdi-light:alert" 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.

![Stretching image and SVG](https://iconify.design/assets/images/align-img.svg)

#### 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:

```jsx
<Icon icon="mdi-light:alert" 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:

![SVG alignment](https://iconify.design/assets/images/align-meet.svg)

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:

![SVG alignment](https://iconify.design/assets/images/align-slice.svg)

## Icon Sets

There are over 50 icon sets. This readme shows only a few examples. See [Iconify icon sets](http://iconify.design/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](https://iconify.design/icon-sets/) for list of collections and their licenses.