I have seen font-awesome icons have the class 'fa' for all icons like this:
<i class='fa fa-snapchat-ghost'></i>
Why not simply
<i class='fa-snapchat-ghost'></i>
? What does the class fa give you?
Its a matter of efficiency within the CSS file that jmoerdyk linked to...
adding an #extend .fa directive into each and every icon would:
a) run counter to what CSS is based on from a theoretical standpoint.
b) add way more lines of code than simply having a single class assign properties that every icon needs in order to render correctly.
It's no different than why Bootstrap (or any other framework) relies on multiple CSS tags; efficiency of code and avoiding redundancy. Consider:
All Font Awesome icons need to use the Font Awesome Font.
They must all have the same display as well as other CSS styles
applied
Without .fa every icon would need to repeat those styles, adding unnecessary bloat to code and increasing the possibility that discrepancies might occur as new icons are added.
The overall size of the CSS file (even minified) would be larger due to repetition, so there is that concern as well.
This is what .fa gives:
.fa {
display: inline-block;
font: normal normal normal 14px/1 FontAwesome;
font-size: inherit;
text-rendering: auto;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}
So in addition to the icon you show, this style also gets applied.
Check the full source code
Related
I am using a downloaded font file for use on my website, however it is causing some issues in regards to layout / display.
Most fonts I have used display like this
The font I am currently using displays like this:
The difference is that the 1st font has space above (which is part of the actual text and not my css styling) while the second one has no space at all.
I can solve this issue by simply adding some extra padding to the containing element's top but this is not practical in the future event that I decide to replace the font (meaning I would have to go into every parent and remove the padding-top)
Is there any CSS styling methods I can use to add padding to my font so that it will always have a bit of space up top?
My Code:
CSS:
#font-face {
font-family: "Anakin Mono";
src: url("../fonts/opipik_anakinmono/anakinmono.ttf");
}
#demo {
font-family: "Anakin Mono";
padding: 14px 10px 10px 10px; /* Have to add extra padding to top becuase of font in use */
border: 1px solid black; /* A border helps illuminate whats happening with text alignment - vertically;
}
HTML:
<p id="demo">Some text on my website</p>
Is there any CSS styling methods I can use to add padding to my font so that it will always have a bit of space up top?
Unfortunately the answer to this question as you've outlined it is no, there are no CSS methods to target only a single font.
That said, you can simply assign your mono-spaced font by using a class and easily change the style globally as shown here:
#import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Inconsolata');
.monospace {
font-family: 'Inconsolata', monospace;
padding-top: 4px;
}
<div class="monospace">This element is monospaced font</div>
Any elements which you'd like to use your mono spaced font should be assigned the class monospace. In the future, you can simply change the font-family rule and alter the padding and voila, you've accomplished your change with very little effort.
I realize you've made it clear in the comments that you'd rather take a different approach, but I feel this is the absolute best solution/workaround that will get you what you want with the least amount of effort. At most, it will require you alter your markup to add the monospace class where needed, but this is probably a step in the right direction anyway.
You can make use of line-height. Change your CSS to this:
#demo {
font-family: "Anakin Mono", sans-serif;
line-height: 3;
padding: 0 10px;
border: 1px solid black;
}
You can try different values of line-height. It accepts multiple of original line height. px or em.
Always remember not to use only ONE font in font-family. Use more than 1 font to provide fallback fonts, in case your font is not loaded yet / unable to load.
Also, it's not advised to use self-hosted TTF font unless the file size is small. Try using CDN-hosted web fonts (such as Google Fonts) for better performance.
JSFiddle demo: https://jsfiddle.net/okawrcuf/6/ (I used another font that is available in Google Fonts for demo purpose, as I don't have your font)
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I am using the CSS content attribute because it loads faster than the tags.
The "fa-user" icon class has two sets of icons, i.e. "far" and "fas" but, they share the same Unicode "\f007". This is a problem.
The result that is obtained has just one drawback. The icons load a couple of seconds after the page does. Hence, it messes with the UX.
Using the tag adds up to commented HTML markup.
So, is there a way I can still use CSS content attributes and switch between the "far" and "fas" classes?
Any suggestions to solve this?
The difference between the fas and the far of an icon is the font-weight so to switch between both you simply need to adjust the font-weight:
.icon {
font-family:"Font Awesome\ 5 Free";
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
display: inline-block;
font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal;
text-rendering: auto;
line-height: 1;
}
.icon:before {
content:"\f007";
}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.10/css/all.css">
<span class="icon" style="font-weight:300"></span>
<span class="icon" style="font-weight:900"></span>
Here is another related question: Font Awesome shows square instead of icon when used directly in CSS
Font Awesome 5 has asynchronous loading indicators that allow you to add css to the icon containers while they load so you can make sure that they do not shift your layout.
There is no need to use the css solution for this. And either way, the css also has to load external resources so this could take a while as well.
I have been using Font-Awesome and its icons for a while now, and it has been working just fine.
Today, however, it only displays blank squares instead of icons. I have read many other related questions, but none of those cases apply to me. As I said, it worked before, and I did not make any changes to the Font-Awesome files (I am using a downloaded version of FA, not the CDN) or to the HTML templates that display the icons.
So I want to start debugging the process. One example is this:
<i style="color: orange" class="fa fa-exclamation-triangle"></i>
However, I cannot find any urls in the CSS of the affected elements, when inspecting with Chrome. What I do see on every icon element though, is something like this:
.fa-warning:before, .fa-exclamation-triangle:before {
content: "\f071";
}
Where \f071 is the "blank square" character.
So my question is:
Where do the icons come from, and how can I debug no-show FA icons, in general?
UPDATE
I found out that \f071 and its friends are actually symbols referring to icons, stored in the font files. The fact that they show up as blank squares seems to indicate that the font has not been loaded successfully.
However, I checked and the client downloads fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff and fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf just fine.
Also, the elements' font is correctly set through the fa class:
font-family: normal normal normal 14px/1 FontAwesome
What else is necessary to make sure, a font has loaded successfully?
UPDATE
I solved it: Font file(s) were corrupted/not delivered properly. That's always something to check out first!
FontAwesome is... a font!
This means you'll have a set of characters, which are (visually) icons. These characters are generally contained between \e000 and \f8ff (which are private use area's characters).
When you see this code:
.fa-warning:before, .fa-exclamation-triangle:before {
content: "\f071";
}
It means the \f071 character will be displayed in the pseudo-element. It's coupled with this code, which loads FontAwesome font for .fa elements:
#font-face {
font-family: 'FontAwesome';
src: url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.eot?v=4.2.0');
src: url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.eot?#iefix&v=4.2.0') format('embedded-opentype'), url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff?v=4.2.0') format('woff'), url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf?v=4.2.0') format('truetype'), url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.svg?v=4.2.0#fontawesomeregular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
.fa {
display: inline-block;
font: normal normal normal 14px/1 FontAwesome;
font-size: inherit;
text-rendering: auto;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}
Seeing a white square can means:
your font is not loaded (most common problem)
your font is not well created (re-download it)
your CSS is missing the font declaration (#font-face {})
your CSS is missing the font call (font: normal normal normal 14px/1 FontAwesome;)
How to debug:
Check that you're using the right class name (.fa .fa-foo)
Check that your FontAwesome CSS is loaded (it should be the case as you're seeing the square)
Double-check that your font is loaded. There could have a path issue, like font/ folder instead of fonts/
Have a look on your .htaccess. People often makes strong rules which affect assets.
If everything is ok, try to re-download the font (font files could have been corrupted)
I've got this html:
<p>
<span class="fancify">Parting is such sweet sorrow!</span><span> - Bill Rattleandrollspeer</span>
</p>
...and this css (added to the bottom of Site.css):
.fancify {
font-size: 1.5em;
font-weight: 800;
font-family: Consolas, "Segoe UI", Calibri, sans-serif;
font-style: italic;
}
So, I would expect the quote ("Parting is such sweet sorrow!") to be italicized, and of a different font than the name of the quotee (Bill Rattleandrollspeer), since its span tag has the class "fancify" attached to it. The class should certainly be seen, as the file in which it appears references the layout file which uses the Site.css file.
What rookie mistake am I making now?
UPDATE
I thought maybe the problem was that I had added the new class in Site.css following this section in that file:
/********************
* Mobile Styles *
********************/
#media only screen and (max-width: 850px) {
...but I moved it above there, and it is still not working, and not seen via F12 | Inspect element for the label in question.
I moved the reference to Site.css below the bootstrap.css file, which does indeed change the appearance of that text, but still not italicized, and still not seen in the element inspector...
UPDATE 2
Here's how the HTML is coming down:
<p>
<span>
<label class="fancify">Parting is such sweet sorrow!</label>
...and here's my css rule in Site.css:
p span label .fancify {
font-size: 1.5em;
font-weight: 800;
font-family: Consolas, "Segoe UI", Calibri, sans-serif;
font-style: italic;
display: inline;
}
...but it's not being recognized. I consider this a breech of css/html protocol, and should be adjudicated by some world body. Then again, I could be making some silly mistake somewhere.
There could be an error earlier in the CSS file that is causing your (correct) CSS to not work.
Have you tried forcing the selectors to be in the front of the class?
p span label.fancify {
font-size: 1.5em;
font-weight: 800;
font-family: Consolas, "Segoe UI", Calibri, sans-serif;
font-style: italic;
}
Usually it will add more weight to your CSS declaration.
My mistake ... There should be no space between the selector and the class.
The same goes for the ID. If you have for example:
<div id="first">
<p id="myParagraph">Hello <span class="bolder">World</span></p>
</div>
You would style it like this:
div#first p#myParagraph {
color : #ff0000;
}
Just to make a complete example using a class:
div#first p#myParagraph span.bolder{
font-weight:900;
}
For more information about pseudo-selectors and child selectors : http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html
CSS is a whole science :) Beware that some browsers can have incompatibilities and will not show you the proper results. For more information check this site: http://www.caniuse.com/
Posting, since it might be useful for someone in the future:
For me, when I got here, the solution was browser cache. Had to hard refresh Chrome (cmd/ctrl+shift+R) to get the new styles applied, it seems the old ones got cached really "deep".
This question/answer might come in handy for someone. And hard refresh tips for different browsers for those who don't use Chrome.
I was going out of my mind when a rule was being ignored while others weren't. Run your CSS through a validator and look for parsing errors.
I accidentally used // for a comment instead of /* */ causing odd behavior. My IDE said nothing about it. I hope it helps someone.
Maybe your span is inheriting a style that forces its text to be normal instead of italic as you would like it. If you just can't get it to work as you want it to you might try marking your font-style as important.
.fancify {
font-size: 1.5em;
font-weight: 800;
font-family: Consolas, "Segoe UI", Calibri, sans-serif;
font-style: italic !important;
}
However try not to overuse important because it's easy to fall into CSS-hell with it.
For me, the problem was incorrect content type of the served .css file (if it included certain unicode characters).
Changing the content-type to text/css solved the problem.
I know this is an old post but I thought I might add a thought for people who come across a similar problem. I'm assuming that you are using ASP.NET MVC since you mentioned site.css. Check your Bundles.config file to see if you have BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = true; If you don't, then it can be your problem since this allows the program to be bundles and "minified". Depending on if you run in debug mode or not this could have an effect.
In addition to the solutions posted above, having gone through the exact same problem, make sure you check your HTML. More specifically whether you've properly labelled your elements, as well as class and id selectors. You can do this either manually or through a validator (https://validator.w3.org/).
For me, I missed the equal sign next to the class (<div class someDiv> vs <div class = "someDiv">, hence why no CSS property was applied.
I had a similar problem which was caused by a simple mistake in CSS comments.
I had written a comment using the JavaScript // way instead of /* */ which made the subsequent css-class to break but all other CSS work as expected.
Reasoning for my CSS styles not being applied, even though they were being loaded:
The media attribute on the link tag which was loading the stylesheet had an incorrect value. I had inadvertently set it to 1 instead of all. This meant the browser was ignoring those styles in that linked stylesheet.
Broken:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css" media="1" />
Corrected:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css" media="all" />
For me, it was the local overrides in Sources -> Overrides.
A file gets saved locally whenever you change the styling of a page and chrome uses that file to override the server's css.
Clear the cache and cookies and restart the browser .As the style is not suppose to change frequently for a website browser kinda store it .
I also faced this issue. And this how it got resolved!
My css filename was gt.css. I was working on Visual Studio (eg.2017).
I went to solution explorer (press Ctrl+Alt+L) and searched gt.css
(enter your css filename). Right click on your css filename and then
on Bundler and Minifier (4th option curently) and then Re-Bundle file
(or directly press Shift+Alt+F).
Save any unsaved file, then empty cache and hard reload your web browser.
You can learn more about Bundler and Minifier here.
I had custom styling applied only on some elements (rows of table). I use Bootstrap. This was caused by having "table-striped" class. Once removed, all required rows had the custom class applied correctly.
A key point, here, may be the way the CSS rules propagate. Some rules are more important than others, so CSS rules do not always "cascade" in the way you might imagine that they ought to. This precedence of CSS rules is known as specificity - see (for example) description at w3schools.com
So, if you have a P element inside a DIV, you can control the font color with, say,
DIV P.highlight { color: red; }
If you have a later CSS instruction, like
.highlight { color: green; }
then it will NOT override the earlier instruction. This has confused me greatly, especially when loading multiple CSS files and naively thinking that I could override the earlier CSS.
I'm too used to setting the className attribute in JSX with React, but not too used to setting the class attribute in plain old HTML. So my mistake when spinning up a quick CodePen was setting a classname attribute, which sets no actual class whatsoever in plain HTML. The correction was, of course, to give the element a class instead.
Hard reload your chorome Shift+F5
Look at the spacing between selectors.
p span selects all span in p
span label selects all label in span
p span label selects all label in span in p
so label .fancify selects all .fancify in label
there is nothing of class fancify in label. label is on the same level, not above
so label.fancify
I want to use a single font named "Algerian" across my whole website. So, I need to change all HTML tags and I don't want to write different code for different tags like:
button{font-family:Algerian;}
div{font-family:Algerian;}
The method written below is also highly discouraged:
div,button,span,strong{font-family:Algerian;}
Put the font-family declaration into a body selector:
body {
font-family: Algerian;
}
All the elements on your page will inherit this font-family then (unless, of course you override it later).
*{font-family:Algerian;}
better solution below
Applying a single font to an entire website with CSS
The universal selector * refers to all elements,
this css will do it for you:
*{
font-family:Algerian;
}
But unfortunately if you are using FontAwesome icons, or any Icons that require their own font family, this will simply destroy the icons and they will not show the required view.
To avoid this you can use the :not selector, a sample of fontawesome icon is <i class="fa fa-bluetooth"></i>, so simply you can use:
*:not(i){
font-family:Algerian;
}
this will apply this family to all elements in the document except the elements with the tag name <i>, you can also do it for classes:
*:not(.fa){
font-family:Algerian;
}
this will apply this family to all elements in the document except the elements with the class "fa" which refers to fontawesome default class,
you can also target more than one class like this:
*:not(i):not(.fa):not(.YourClassName){
font-family:Algerian;
}
* { font-family: Algerian; }
The universal selector * refers to any element.
Ensure that mobile devices won't change the font with their default font by using important along with the universal selector * :
* { font-family: Algerian !important;}
As a different font is likely to be already defined by the browser for form elements, here are 2 ways to use this font everywhere:
body, input, textarea {
font-family: Algerian;
}
body {
font-family: Algerian !important;
}
There'll still have a monospace font on elements like pre/code, kbd, etc but, in case you use these elements, you'd better use a monospace font there.
Important note: if very few people has this font installed on their OS, then the second font in the list will be used. Here you defined no second font so the default serif font will be used, and it'll be Times, Times New Roman except maybe on Linux.
Two options there: use #font-face if your font is free of use as a downloadable font or add fallback(s): a second, a third, etc and finally a default family (sans-serif, cursive (*), monospace or serif). The first of the list that exists on the OS of the user will be used.
(*) default cursive on Windows is Comic Sans. Except if you want to troll Windows users, don't do that :) This font is terrible except for your children birthdays where it's welcome.
Please place this in the head of your Page(s) if the "body" needs the use of 1 and the same font:
<style type="text/css">
body {font-family:FONT-NAME ;
}
</style>
Everything between the tags <body> and </body>will have the same font
Ok so I was having this issue where I tried several different options.
The font i'm using is Ubuntu-LI , I created a font folder in my working directory. under the folder fonts
I was able to apply it... eventually here is my working code
I wanted this to apply to my entire website so I put it at the top of the css doc. above all of the Div tags (not that it matters, just know that any individual fonts you assign post your script will take precedence)
#font-face{
font-family: "Ubuntu-LI";
src: url("/fonts/Ubuntu/(Ubuntu-LI.ttf"),
url("../fonts/Ubuntu/Ubuntu-LI.ttf");
}
*{
font-family:"Ubuntu-LI";
}
If i then wanted all of my H1 tags to be something else lets say sans sarif I would do something like
h1{
font-family: Sans-sarif;
}
From which case only my H1 tags would be the sans-sarif font and the rest of my page would be the Ubuntu-LI font
in Bootstrap,
web inspector says the Headings are set to 'inherit'
all i needed to set my page to the new font was
div, p {font-family: Algerian}
that's in .scss
*{font-family:Algerian;}
this html worked for me. Added to canvas settings in wordpress.
Looks cool - thanks !