My Web app is using font awesome latest version (6.1.1) and it is working perfectly as I'm adding fontawesome icons. Now I added a new icon whose height and width are coming as zero in the browser. Code is:
<button type="button" class="btn btn-danger">
<i class="fa fa-trash-xmark" aria-hidden="true">
</i>
Delete
</button>
<i> is coming as 0 width and height. Any ideas why? A screenshot showing this problem is attached here.
Thanks
Try making the i element display inline-block with some height and width.
i{
display: inline-block;
height: 1rem;
width: 1rem;
}
If this does not work, then, there is problem elsewhere. If it does work, check your stylesheet to see if there is an overflow or layout problem.
I am using a bulma-based template for a static site generator and I'm looking to remove any dependencies on Javascript and any resources hosted by third parties, as well as generally minimizing things.
The template utilizes font awesome for some of the icons involved, but it's really only around 5-10 icons total, so I was planning to inline them as SVGs rather than load an entire web font. However, I'm not sure how to get as close as possible to a drop-in replacement for these few icons through pure CSS.
Here is a minimal working example of the HTML:
<link href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.6/css/all.css" rel="stylesheet">
<ul style="list-style: none">
<li>
<a href="https://example.com">
<span style="align-items:center; justify-content:center"><i class="fa fa-globe fa-fw"></i></span>
<span>Example</span>
</a>
</li>
<li style="font-size: 20px">
<a href="https://example.com">
<span style="align-items:center; justify-content:center"><i class="fa fa-globe fa-fw"></i></span>
<span class="link-text">Example</span>
</a>
</li>
<li style="font-size: 40px">
<a href="https://example.com">
<span style="align-items:center; justify-content:center"><i class="fa fa-globe fa-fw"></i></span>
<span class="link-text">Example</span>
</a>
</li>
</ul>
If I use this with the fontawesome CSS (see this JSfiddle) by prepending this:
<link href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.6/css/all.css" rel="stylesheet">
I get an icon that scales with the font size, has the same color as the font size and is centered vertically with respect to the text. If, however, I use an inline SVG (see this JSFiddle), with this CSS:
.fa-globe::before {
content: '';
display: inline-block;
height: 1em;
width: 1em;
background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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");
}
The icon is not centered vertically with respect to the text, and it is not the same color as the text. What is the best way to treat inline SVGs as replacements for font awesome glyphs without javascript? (I'm less concerned with the "icons are the wrong color" than the fact that they don't seem to be aligned well with the text, I just mention it because if there is an approach that solves both problems, I'd prefer that).
Perhaps this resource could be useful for you. IcoMoon has a decent selection of free icons, including the social networks, and if you click 'generate svg' you can then select 'get code' and copy/paste the html and css straight into your site.
To change icon color and layout you can simply change the css you just grabbed.
Something like:
`
.icon {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
color: #whatever-text-color;
}
`
Here is a JS-free example that you can play with. If you are using a sass variable for controlling font-size, you could also hook the image up to that to keep everything scaling together.
The only catch with using SVG over using font-awesome is a lack of svg support on old/ancient IE browsers. Everything else is a solid win - less http requests, less file size, less dependencies.
Hope this helps :)
EDIT
extra tip. For animations with inline svg, put a class or id onto the PATH tag and animate that. For rotations you might also need: transform-origin: center; since it defaults to rotating around the top-right.
If you have an svg with multiple paths, you can animate them individually and start getting really funky.
In your fiddle https://jsfiddle.net/ks392fzv/6/, if you set content to content to content: "\00a0\00a0" in the .fa-globe::before class, it will give the i content and that element can now align by the baseline.
.fa-globe::before {
content: '\00a0\00a0';
...
I forked your fiddle and made the small change here: https://jsfiddle.net/ndebellas/y4dLcqkx/.
I am trying to add the lock icon on my website using the following code,
<div style="width:10%; background-color:#D6B300; height:50px;">
<p style="color:#044B29;padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-lock"></span> Lock</p>
</div>
But for some reason it is not displaying on the site. Please guide. Thanks.
Your site includes Font Awesome CSS but you were using Gylphicon classes in your span.
Right code:
<span class="fa fa-lock"></span>
I want to use numbers to list steps in a process. I was curious about how to do this with Font Awesome.
I'd like to use circles with a 1, 2, 3... in it. Is this possible?
Will Font Awesome be adding numbers to the list of icons?
Thanks!
Font awesome actually has built-in support for stacking regular text (i.e. numbers, letters, ..) on top of icons.
Here is a nice example of a calendar icon with the actual day of the month as plain text. As the post also explains you might need to throw in some extra styling for optimal positioning.
HTML:
<span class="fa-stack fa-3x">
<i class="fa fa-calendar-o fa-stack-2x"></i>
<strong class="fa-stack-1x calendar-text">27</strong>
</span>
CSS:
.calendar-text { margin-top: .3em; }
Following code will give a circle with a number
<span class="fa-stack fa-3x">
<i class="fa fa-circle-o fa-stack-2x"></i>
<strong class="fa-stack-1x">1</strong>
</span>
Following code will give a solid circle with a number
<span class="fa-stack fa-3x">
<i class="fa fa-circle fa-stack-2x"></i>
<strong class="fa-stack-1x text-primary">1</strong>
</span>
Here the text-primary class (from bootstrap) is used to set the colour of the number
To include letters and numbers would make the style sheet for FA way too large and they do not support it ( https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/5019 ). so what i do is like such:
.fa-alph {
font-family: Arial, sans-serif; /* your font family here! */
font-weight: bold;
color: #860000;
font-style: normal;
}
then
<button class="btn btn-default" type="button"><i class="fa-alph">2</i></button>
this leaves a nice clean font and you can still use the silly i ( em ) to keep trakc of "icons." Plus this keeps all icon type characters within the same elemental scope... (.fa-^)
I believe this thread was for an icon with a circle around it. So you would modify this CSS above to make it a <span> instead of a <button> and creat a block element in your span.
.f-circle {
font-family: Arial; /* your font family here! */
font-weight: bold;
display: block;
border: 1px solid #860000;
border-radius: 999px;
padding: 6px 12px;
}
then
<span class="f-circle"><i class="fa-alph">2</i></span>
You can just do something like this instead :
<i class="fa fa-star" aria-hidden="true"> 1</i>
<i class="fa fa-star" aria-hidden="true"> 2</i>
<i class="fa fa-star" aria-hidden="true"> 3</i>
...
I find this works nicely within WordPress widgets (after adding in the CDN styesheet to the header):
<span class="fa-stack fa-lg">
<i class="fa fa-circle fa-stack-2x"></i>
<i class="fa-stack-1x fa-inverse">1</i>
</span>
As an alternative to font awesome and HTML/CSS, find an example you like and create something similar in Photoshop. Export the PNGs. Takes about 10 minutes.
Not that I know off! Actually Font awesome is a font used to render icons only. Here is a list of possible icons Fontawesome-icons.
You could do this in many other ways i would do it using one of this 2 other methods depending on what your looking for. For example...
A simple circle with a number inside, the way I would go would be with CSS, creating a circle and using normal text inside. There are tons of posts/examples in google for that. Here is one : how to create circles with css
If you want to achive this with something more graphic/icon I suggest taking a look at Fontello, this creates a font out of your own svg files. So you could do your own numbers with images as background and render the numbers as icons just like fontawesome does.
Have a good one!
Pancho
I have to wrap my icon within an <a> tag for some reason.
Is there any possible way to change the color of a font-awesome icon to black?
or is it impossible as long as it wrapped within an <a> tag? Font awesome is supposed to be font not image, right?
<i class="icon-cog"></i> Edit profile
This worked for me:
.icon-cog {
color: black;
}
For versions of Font Awesome above 4.7.0, it looks this:
.fa-cog {
color: black;
}
HTML:
<i class="icon-cog blackiconcolor">
css :
.blackiconcolor {color:black;}
you can also add extra class to the button icon...
You can specify the color in the style attribute:
<i class="icon-cog" style="color:black"></i> Edit profile
Try this:
<i class="icon-cog text-red">
<i class="icon-cog text-blue">
<i class="icon-cog text-yellow">
To change the font awesome icons color for your entire project use this in your css
.fa {
color : red;
}
If you don't want to alter the CSS file, this is what works for me. In HTML, add style with color:
<i class="fa fa-cog" style="color:#fff;"></i>
Is there any possible way to change the color of a font-awesome icon to
black?
Yes, there is. See the snipped bellow
<!-- Assuming that you don't have, this needs to be in your HTML file (usually the header) -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
<!-- Here is what you need to use -->
Edit Profile
Font awesome is supposed to be font not image, right?
Yes, it is a font. Therefore, you are able to scale it to any size without losing quality.
To hit only cog-icons in that kind of button, you can give the button a class, and set the color for the icon only when inside the button.
HTML:
<a class="my-nice-button" href="/users/edit">
<i class="icon-cog"></i>
Edit profile
</a>
CSS:
.my-nice-button>i { color: black; }
This will make any icon that is a direct descendant of your button black.
With reference to #ClarkeyBoy answer, below code works fine, if using latest version of Font-Awesome icons or if you using fa classes
.fa.icon-white {
color: white;
}
And, then add icon-white to existing class
For me the only thing that worked is inline css + overriding
<i class="fas fa-ellipsis-v fa-2x" style="color:red !important"></i>
just give and text style whatever you want like :D
HTML:
<a href="javascript:;" class="fa fa-trash" style="color:#d9534f;">
<span style="color:black;">Text Name</span>
</a>
.fa-search{
color:#fff;
}
you write that code in css and it would change the color to white or any color you want, you specify it
You can change the Font Awesome's icon color with the bootstrap class
use
text-color
example
text-white
Sometimes changing the colour in the external css file doesn't work. You can add inline css property in the icon tag and that will work.
For example
<i class="fa-solid fa-keyboard" style="color: grey;"></i>
just give it the style whatever you want like
style="color: white;font-size: 20px;"
You can change the color of a fontawesome icon by changing its foreground color using the css color property. The following are examples:
<i class="fa fa-cog" style="color:white">
This supports svgs also
<style>
.fa-cog{
color:white;
}
</style>
<style>
.parent svg, .parent i{
color:white
}
</style>
<div class="parent">
<i class="fa fa-cog" style="color:white">
</div>
Write this code in the same line, this change the icon color:
<li class="fa fa-id-card-o" style="color:white" aria-hidden="true">
Use color property to change the color of your target element as follow :
.icon-cog { // selector of your element
color: black;
}
Or in the newest version of font-awesome , you can choose among filled or not filled icons
If you want to change the color of a specific icon, you can use something like this:
.fa-stop {
color:red;
}
It might a little bit tricky to change the color of font-awesome icons. The simpler method is to add your own class name inside the font-awesome defined classes like this:
.
And target your custom_defined__class_name in your CSS to change the color to whatever you like.
Open the svg file in vs code or something
change the line
path fill="gray" to what ever color you want! in my case i change it to gray!
I added a style, then color of your choice and make sure to make it bold
HTML:
<i class="icon-cog blackiconcolor">
css :
.blackiconcolor {color:black;}
Using class will give you a free binding property which you can apply on any tag you require.