Title: screen_icon
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# screen_icon()

## In this article

 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_icon/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_icon/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_icon/?output_format=md#changelog)

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This function has been deprecated since 3.8.0.

Displays a screen icon.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_icon/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    function screen_icon() {
    	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '3.8.0' );
    	echo get_screen_icon();
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/includes/deprecated.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-admin/includes/deprecated.php#L1236)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-admin/includes/deprecated.php#L1236-L1239)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_icon/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [get_screen_icon()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_screen_icon/)`wp-admin/includes/deprecated.php` |

Retrieves the screen icon (no longer used in 3.8+).

  | 
| [_deprecated_function()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/_deprecated_function/)`wp-includes/functions.php` |

Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.

  |

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_icon/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.8.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.8.0/) | Deprecated.  | 
| [2.7.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.7.0/) | Introduced. |

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