Why are these useful gliphicons pixelated, even on W3Schools own website? I am trying to use these and have the same issues. See glyphicon-search as an example.
I have tried rotating, antialiasing, etc. Nothing works.
If it displays like this on W3Schools own website - is that a "feature"? Should I be using some other small icons? Here is an example - the right one is a real problem:
There is nothing to do with this w3cschool glypican:
Some another issues are also be there for this problem, like,
Use Proper CDN instead of using local file (js or css)
Wrong Loading of glyphican as #Deathstorm explain the second point in his answer.
You can see this demo which I have copied from w3cschool itself and it's supported in most of the browser:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<h2>Music Glyph</h2>
<p>Music icon: <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-music"></span></p>
<p>Music icon as a link:
<a href="#">
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-music"></span>
</a>
</p>
<p>Music icon on a button:
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-music"></span> Music
</button>
</p>
<p>Music icon on a styled link button:
<a href="#" class="btn btn-info btn-lg">
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-music"></span> Music
</a>
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Why are W3Schools glyphicons pixelated?
It has nothing to do with W3Schools and the title should change (I think). Use your developer tools to see that the provided link downloads sources from a CDN:
https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css
https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js
https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff2
and not from W3Schools.
So, any comments like: glyphicons from w3schools are terrible. Or at least more pixelated than others... are terribly wrong and misleading. As others have mentioned, maybe there is something else that causes this (graphics card driver, browser settings, monitor settings). Have you checked different devices?
With my PC, I also see difference between Firefox and Chrome. The result of Chrome looks smoother:
also: Vector Icons Roundup | A side-by-side comparison between popular icon fonts
as more people told already, the glyphicons from w3schools are terrible. Or atleast more pixelated then others.
Some problems that could let this problem occur are:
The browser version and/or cache
Wrong loading of the glyphicons. You can check this by viewing the console in your browser.
A bad source from wich the glyphicons are taken from.
The source i've always used and didn't have any problems with is the glyphicons from bootstrap You can use these glyphicons by adding the following code to your header:
<!-- Fonts and Icons -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
<!-- Bootstrap -->
<!-- Latest compiled and minified CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">
Note: By now there maybe will be newer versions, you can find the scripts here
a example code of loading a glyphicon the right way is down below:
<i class="fa fa-facebook-square" aria-hidden="true"></i>
Try using the glyphicons directly from bootstrap! Here is the bootstrap glyphicon "how to use" page: http://getbootstrap.com/components/#glyphicons-how-to-use
The gliphicon reference page is right above it.
If this does not solve the problem I would suggest fontawesome. I know fontawesome is not a gliphicon source, but it is very helpful.
Here is a link to font awesome's page:
http://fontawesome.io/
I hope this solves the problem!
I am not familiar with w3schools (because it is a terrible resource, would recommend using https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/).
What I am guessing is that those are images. Their code must be pulling from a library of little images. This would greatly slow the loading of your DOM and I would recommend finding a different resource to get those icons!
Enter SVG's
SVG's are scalable vector graphics. They are two-dimensional graphics that will never pixilate, they are also toggleable with classes and pseudo-classes. Font-Awesome is a fantastic resource for these icons, would go so far as to say bookmark it!!
Regarding the particular "glyph" you pointed out as being pixelated. Here's font-awesome's version!
http://fontawesome.io/icon/info-circle/
All you need is the embedded code they email you or you can download their hold library (would not recommend).
Hope this helps!
Related
I am trying to get a spinner icon to spin with no success. I have downloaded the latest font awesome and created a very basic html file to try and eliminate any variables to make it work.
Here is the html:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<link href="C:/Users/<my-user-name>/Downloads/fontawesome-free-6.2.0-web/css/all.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<div class="row">
<div class="col">
<i class="fa-solid fa-spinner fa-spin"></i>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The above code renders the icon but the animation doesn't work.
The only thing I have noticed is that when I inspect the icon element in chrome and look at the style details for .fa-spin, it shows a style called animation-timing-function: var(--fa-animation-timing, linear); but when I hover over that style, text appears stating "--fa-animation-timing is not defined".
As far as I can tell from the fontawesome host yourself instructions I have included everything I need. I didn't delete any files from the extracted free font awesome download. I also tried the alternative option to referencing all.css, which involves referencing fontawesome.css, brands.css and solid.css.
What am I missing here?
Thanks so much in advance!
We just ran into this issue and found the potential reason.
https://fontawesome.com/docs/web/troubleshoot/
Points to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/#media/prefers-reduced-motion#user_preferences
And when we toggled "Show animations in Windows." The animations started working again.
I created a random quote generater webpage as part of the freecodecamp curriculum and am now uploading the files to github so that they can be hosted on there as their own webpages. The page works fine in codepen but the 'buttons' don't work when I upload the page to github. I can't figure out why. I would appreciate any feedback and insight on this issue! (I'm quite new to web development and coding in general so I apologize in advance if this is a stupid/simple error) Thanks!
I'm also not sure why the font size is so small on the github version :/
page on codepen - https://codepen.io/armte312/pen/Qrvyjr
github webpage - https://armte.github.io/quotegen.github.io/
github repo - https://github.com/armte/quotegen.github.io
code with issue:
<div class="button-row" id="button-row">
<a class="button tweet-quote" href="#" id="tweet-quote"><i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i></a>
<a class="button new-quote-btn" href="#" id="new-quote-btn">New Quote</a>
</div><!--End of button-row !-->
I tried using the z-index property because I wasn't sure if some other element may be 'in front of' the a tags but that didn't seem to work.
Also tried a more updated version of bootstrap but that didn't seem to matter either.
The 'new quote' button (an tag) should react to the cursor hovering above it and when it's clicked but it does neither...
You have your jquery set as
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-3.3.1.js"></script>
while you don't have that name of a file in your github repo. Use this code instead
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.js"></script>
Remove the duplicate
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
I have spent the last 2 weeks or so googling and asking around..with nothing found.
I'm looking for a referenceable image library, like an icon library. My thoughts are, if there are enough default images...it could be as useful and quick to implement images as it is to currently implement icons.
For example, Google Material design icons are referenced like
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons"
rel="stylesheet">
<i class="material-icons">
train
</i>
or IonIcon:
<link
href="https://unpkg.com/ionicons#4.1.2/dist/css/ionicons.min.css"
rel="stylesheet">
<i class="icon ion-md-heart"></i>
What I'm looking for is a image library like this. To allow for developers in my organization to link to default/stock images within their code with an icon tag. Like this:
<link
href="https://imagelibrary.com/here.min.css"
rel="stylesheet">
<i class="icon default-image1"></i>
I'm not a developer/coder, so perhaps there is something basic I'm missing, but this seems like a quicker way to link and change out default images rather than copying/finding a lengthy image url. (As long as the image file size is about the same as an icon.)
Thank you!
I am trying to use bulma icons following the docs here, but the icon doesn't show up:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bulma/0.6.1/css/bulma.min.css">
<div>
<span class="icon">
<i class="fa fa-home"></i>
</span>
<span>ICON</span>
</div>
Also see the fiddle here, what could be the problem?
You also need to include the bulma.min.css file, not just the .map.
Edit
Per the Bulma docs:
If you want to use icons with Bulma, don't forget to include Font Awesome:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
Update 3/19/2019
As #Akshay has pointed out below, the documentation has changed and the proper way to include Font Awesome is now
<script defer src="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.3.1/js/all.js"></script>
Bulma icons won't show up unless you call fontawesome libraries, we can use a kit code for that. This will look like <script src="https://kit.fontawesome.com/xxxxxxxx.js"></script> in the <head>...</head> section of your code.
note: you can get the code "xxxxxxxx" for free usage of fontawesome icons from the website.
https://fontawesome.com/start
Before you mark this as a dup, please read it all:
So I've been searching times a billion on here, and every other site, and can't find a solution that works.
I'm using .NET, and trying to use Bootstrap's Glyphicons.
A lot of them work perfectly fine, but NOT ALL of them are showing up.
I've literally tried every solution on here, and nothing works.
Including hosting the files myself, and loading them from the CDN.
Here's an example of one that won't load.
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-queen"></span>
It looks like many people have had similar issues, but am I alone on this one?
Thanks, iBenji
try this, it works:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">
</head>
<body>
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-queen"></span>
</body>
</html>
here is jsfiddle example:
https://jsfiddle.net/h885aeh0/