Font ligature icons in Microsoft edge - html

Question

I'm using google material Icon font library for the majority of icons in a web app. I've started debugging for Microsoft Edge and realised none of them are showing.
Is this a known issue? I can switch to actual icon images if need be but it would be a massive job at this stage.

Answer 1

Try to use F12 developer tools to check whether the Google Icons CSS reference load success.
The following code works well on Edge 42 and Edge 44 version:
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons" rel="stylesheet">
<style type="text/css">
#font-face {
font-family: 'Material Icons';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
src: url(https://example.com/MaterialIcons-Regular.eot); /* For IE6-8 */
src: local('Material Icons'), local('MaterialIcons-Regular'), url(https://example.com/MaterialIcons-Regular.woff2) format('woff2'), url(https://example.com/MaterialIcons-Regular.woff) format('woff'), url(https://example.com/MaterialIcons-Regular.ttf) format('truetype');
}
.material-icons {
font-family: 'Material Icons';
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
font-size: 24px; /* Preferred icon size */
display: inline-block;
line-height: 1;
text-transform: none;
letter-spacing: normal;
word-wrap: normal;
white-space: nowrap;
direction: ltr;
/* Support for all WebKit browsers. */
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
/* Support for Safari and Chrome. */
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
/* Support for Firefox. */
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
/* Support for IE. */
font-feature-settings: 'liga';
}
</style>
<i class="material-icons">face</i>
The output screenshot as below: