I have a design below having some social media icons (LinkedIn, Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter) which I am trying to replicate in HTML and CSS.
At this moment, I am able to get this in fiddle in font-awesome but it's not the same design.
I am wondering, is there any way in font-awesome we can replicate the above design? If it is not possible in font-awesome, then can we replicate the above design through some other library?
The HTML code in fiddle which I am using for every social media icon is:
<li class="navbar-icons">
<a href="" target="_blank">
<i class="fa fa-linkedin-square fa-6" aria-hidden="true"></i>
</a>
</li>
Since you're using Font Awesome the result is gonna have a different design, because that solution has the purpose of providing icons and not the kind of buttons you really want.
If you'd like to maintain the style of the each social media platform, you should go through the respective docs.
Twitter
As stated in the Twitter docs, you should start by adding the following snippet
<a class="twitter-share-button"
href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet">
Tweet</a>
and, then add Twitter for Websites JavaScript, which handles the styling of the button, and change the URL in the href attribute to be the one you need.
Google+
The most simple button provided by their docs is the following
<script src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js" async defer></script>
<g:plus action="share" href="https://www.example.com"></g:plus>
where the href attribute contains the URL to be shared.
Facebook and LinkedIn
Both (Facebook and LinkedIn) have very easy to use generators that will produce the code snippet you need to add to your HTML.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
Related
How to generate the twitter , facebook and youtube icon as in the top of the website
https://store.linefriends.com/
If I inspect the element I see the following html :
<li></li>
Not sure how that icon gets generated from this html line as there is no image etc here
Such icons can be generated using an icon library. The most popular choice is FontAwesome. If you want to add links, you can enclose i tag with an anchor tag, with href attribute. You need to add a bit of styling to it.
a{
color: black;
text-decoration: none;
}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css" integrity="sha512-iBBXm8fW90+nuLcSKlbmrPcLa0OT92xO1BIsZ+ywDWZCvqsWgccV3gFoRBv0z+8dLJgyAHIhR35VZc2oM/gI1w==" crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="no-referrer" />
<div class="container">
<span><i class="fab fa-twitter"></i></span>
<span><i class="fab fa-facebook-f"></i></span>
<span><i class="fab fa-youtube"></i></span>
<span><i class="fab fa-instagram"></i></span>
</div>
You can get the code for link tag from cdnjs
You can search for all icons on their website
You can also download icons and use img tag, but using an icon library, makes things a lot easier.
You use a font family ("Turbo" as I can see) that contains web icons inside.
The icon is generated from the class icon-twitter. Inside this <a> element there is a .icon-twitter::before pseudo element that contains the content value content: "\ea96";. This value is being interpreted to this icon.
So, if you want to change this icon you have to remove the icon-twitter class and put an <img> element with your custom image file ( I would recommend to be an svg file for better load time performance ).
you will need to check each css file found in inspect element via view source for class icon-twitter. (with code like )
Or
Use font awesome for this. More details are available on https://fontawesome.com/
Fon awesome alternatives are available on https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hongkiat.com/blog/free-font-icons-to-bookmark/amp/ OR https://alternative.me/font-awesome
Or
You can use images to achievs this with tag
I might be asking a dumb question, but I am a newbie in javascript and its libs.
I came across the same problem as this post, and in the accepted answer, there was this line
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
However, after adding this line I have a navbar icon even though I did not include a img in my html. I also cannot manipulate the position of this icon built with this stylesheet. Can anyone explain what it does in this context? (referring to the post) I noticed that without this line of code the CSS and Javascript cannot be applied to a simple
<img class="search" src="icon.png" width="30" height="30">
And how is it possible for me adjust the location of the icon with this line of code?
font awesome is a css sheet, that when you use "font awesome classes" on a particular element, makes an icon appear. there's no jpgs or anything to mess with.
<i class="fa fa-address-book" aria-hidden="true"></i>
in a plain html, this will do nothing. but if you add the stylesheet to the page, you will see an address book icon.
all icons are located here: http://fontawesome.io/icons/
I've been scouring the web, and I can't find an answer to this. Is there away to add two Font Awesome icons in one i tag?
I can do it if I put two i tags side by side, like this:
Good for: <i class="fa fa-male fa-2x"></i><i class=" fa fa-female fa-2x"></i>
So is there anyway to do this?
Glyph-based fonts like this generally function by changing the content of the element to a specific value, which the font picks up and renders as the appropriate glyph.
So it's unlikely that you'll be able to use a single tag to display both of them unless the library provides specific syntax for handling that behavior on it's own (similar to how Font Awesome uses stacking).
This is not possible in a single <i> tag, reason is the way how the glyph identifying classes are applied. For longer or dynamic sequences you can however directly use the icons codes in markup notation:
html: <span class="font-awesome"></span>
css: .font-awesome { font-family: FontAwesome; }
This obviously requires that you load the font as FontAwesome.
I created a fiddler as simple demonstration: https://jsfiddle.net/6ofmn36g/
I do agree though that this is an approach that is somewhat hard to read, though...
With Font Awesome 5, it's possible!
Masking
Combine two icons create one single-color shape, thanks to the power of SVG in Font Awesome 5! Use it with our new Power Transforms for some really awesome effects.
Go through the Masking section in this link.
The below snippet is a small working example taken from their site
<!-- Important : Use the SVG & JS method and reference the Js file, not the CSS file -->
<script src="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.13/js/all.js"></script>
<div class="fa-4x">
<i class="fas fa-pencil-alt" data-fa-transform="shrink-10 up-.5" data-fa-mask="fas fa-comment" style="background:MistyRose"></i>
<i class="fab fa-facebook-f" data-fa-transform="shrink-3.5 down-1.6 right-1.25" data-fa-mask="fas fa-circle" style="background:MistyRose"></i>
<i class="fas fa-headphones" data-fa-transform="shrink-6" data-fa-mask="fas fa-square" style="background:MistyRose"></i>
</div>
Not possible with current library of FontAwesome. But there are work arounds as arkascha has suggested below.
Additional Info:
Not exactly what you are asking for But I think this will help you, Also future crowd who falls into this thread with the title.
I had answered similar stuff... Here
https://stackoverflow.com/a/36491858/2592042
You can also build a custom icon by using set of icons available in the font-awesome icon set by stacking and aligning them accordingly. Stacked Icons
Example:
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.5.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<span class="fa-stack fa-lg">
<i class="fa fa-male fa-stack-1x"></i>
<i class="fa fa-female fa-stack"></i>
</span>
I wanted to add social profile links schema for SEO,
Now according to https://developers.google.com/structured-data/customize/social-profiles
<a itemprop="sameAs" href="http://www.facebook.com/your-company">FB</a>
It should work, but what if in my code it has to be:
<a itemprop="sameAs" href="https://twitter.com/your-company">
<i class="fa fa-twitter"></i>
</a>
Would this be understood by Search Engines correctly as a twitter link or would they just understand it as a social media link without being able to figure out that the href points to twitter? I'm pretty sure it works, but I'd like to be more sure.
I'm new to jQuery Mobile and I'm trying to figure out how exactly to customize buttons. Which classes do i have to use to access certain css properties?
For instance I know that if you want to change the background color of a button you write .ui-btn-inner {background: white;}. But when I do it this way it doesn't work out all the time.
I already looked on the jQuery Mobile API website but I can't seem to find anything that really explains this concept in depth.
If someone could provide me with a website or an explanation about these classes that would be much appreciated.
You can inspect the html to see what jQuery mobile buttons look like.
For a basic button, created by:
Link button
the output looks like:
<a href="index.html" data-role="button" data-corners="true" data-shadow="true" data-iconshadow="true" data-wrapperels="span" data-theme="c" class="ui-btn ui-shadow ui-btn-corner-all ui-btn-up-c">
<span class="ui-btn-inner ui-btn-corner-all">
<span class="ui-btn-text">Link button</span>
</span>
</a>
Create and load a custom CSS file after the jQuery mobile css.
Here you can override individual css classes, like
.ui-btn-inner {
// !important does the trick
background-color: #FF0 !important;
...
}
You sometimes might have to add !important to the css in order to override jQuery mobiles CSS. But I actually do not know when this is necessary, I just do it if it does not work without...
You can look up the structure of all elements in the jQuery mobile CSS, or, as i mentioned before, use the web inspector to see what jQuery turns your markup into.
PS
A more in-depth look at how the CSS works, is provided here