I'm trying to use Font-Awesome icon fonts via the BootstrapCDN link which I'm pretty sure I have the latest version of:
<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.css" rel="stylesheet">
I've put this link in the <head> part of my html file and I am trying to get it to work with this simple html code of:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Font-Awesome Icons</title>
<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<p><i class="fa fa-camera-retro"></i> Camera Icon<i class="fa fa-facebook"></i> Facebook Icon</p>
</body>
</html>
However it's not rendering. I've tried this code in the latest versions of FireFox (27), Safari(7) and Chrome(33). I've checked that the fa class is on each of the icons I'm trying to call up and also that the fa- prefix is being used as opposed to the old icon- prefix. I've checked my implementation of the code with this video http://headwaythemes.com/using-font-awesome-with-headway/ (although meant for a WordPress theme, in principal the code should work the same) and looked around on stack overflow but previous questions like Fontawesome not loading haven't yielded me any help in solving my issue.
I don't have the fontawesome.otf installed but surely it isn't that if I can see the glyphs when visiting http://fortawesome.github.io.
Should I just download and host the font-awesome files along with my entire future website so I don't have to worry about updating the BoostrapCDN link as well? - Even though I only plan to use a few icons?
The reason it is not loading is because the URI is starting with "//". That signifies that it is a protocol relative path, meaning it will use whatever protocol that page is using. If you open your html locally, then your browser will use file as the protocol, thus trying to access the font-awesome css with "file://". If you access your html using a local or remote http web server, then you would access the page using the http protocol, thus accessing the css with "http://".
Solution:
Change the path of the css or mimic it on your local machine.
Run a local or remote http server and access the page.
For more info:
URI starting with two slashes ... how do they behave?
Such an easier way to deal with this - just add 'http:' in front for the cdn line, and it will work on your local machine, i.e. like this:
<link href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.2.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
Ta-daa!
What Pulkit answered is absolutely correct. Just to add, if you want to create a quick local server, just go to the directory of the html and css pages, and then go to the terminal and type -
$python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Then, go to your browser and go to 127.0.0.1:8000
If it doesn't show up, try changing the homepage of your website to index.html
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I am having a weird problem.
I am trying to build my github page site. So I am writing my html locally and then push it online to see it.
The problem is that Chrome doesn't recognize my css file when I am opening it locally. When I push the changers online or I am using another browser it work just fine
Here is how I import it on my index.html file:
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css">
</head>
And when I go to the chrome dev tools
css have turned to chinese
Microsoft edge load the css file normally.
I have tried a couple of different things like:
Using another editor
Creating the file in different directory
trying different filenames
Clearing Chromes Cache
Nothing seems to work
I have loaded again a local a site like this and it worked fine.
Any ideas?
Make sure the file encoding is UTF-8. You can use iconv or just in your text editor > save as.
So I've been working on a website for college and I'm starting to learn PHP but for that I installed xampp and tried to access the website from localhost.
By my understanding, the HTML file and images, even (some) images defined in CSS are loading but the entire CSS file is not, like float and flexbox and some padding, borders, and different types of positioning isn't working as intended. It's definitely finding the CSS file so I don't think there's a problem in my <link> tag in the <header>.
HTML header:
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Home - akiro</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Merriweather&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css">
</head>
As Doc-Han Stated this is most likely caching, and its an issue I think most of us have run into during the UI development process.
One thing you can do to get around this, is to open and do your debugging in an incognito window which wont cache files and can be reopened to load new sets if session caching does occur.
Alternatively some code editors have an in-built web server instead for this reason. I've been using Adobe brackets for a couple years now and love it. It serves the pages using an internal Node server and as a result, they have it set up for real time code updates. Changes to the code are reflected in real time which i find helps a lot in dealing with UI development flow for me avoiding issues like this and just the saved 3-5 seconds of refreshing each time i make a change (which adds up when your making 5000 changes Im certain other editors offer something like this as well.
This is just because with Xampp the browser caches your CSS files. This means that if making changes to the file, the browser will still access the cached file rather than the new one. A simple trick is to open the CSS from the local server and refresh the page so that the new CSS will be used.
example open localhost:8080/project/css/style.css and refresh that page
Quite some possibilities why it's not working as expected:
As Doc-Han stated; an old version of the css my have been cached.
You're loading the css from a relative path: style.css. This means the css should be in the same folder as the html file. Maybe the css should be loaded from '/style.css' or '/resources/style.css' or another location
Maybe the css contains some simple typo's so you're applying 'flaot' instead of 'float'
Inspect your page through your browsers developer tools. Open the console. Check if there are there any errors. Check if the css did load, also check if the right version was loaded. Check if the styling rules are applied to the right html elements or are applied at all.
If it is a caching problem in Chrome you can open the dev tools, open the Application tab, click the 'clear storage' menu item and clear site data. Now reload the page. In the network tab you can also click 'disable cache' and reload the page.
Just clear your browser's caches and done!
I just had the same problem but opposite and troubleshooting with Google brought me here.
My server was working perfectly in localhost but when I tried visiting it live via Ngrok or port forwarding, I got broken pages without CSS. I read a comment in this post about visiting the CSS file directly and then refreshing and in doing so realized I couldn't visit a lot of my CSS files, and then realized I set rules in my .htaccess for rewriting. Only leaving this comment so if anyone makes my mistake and finds themselves here like I found myself here, check your .htaccess.
I want to show user circle icon, I have download a font-awesome css file with version 4.7.0.
But this is not working for me. If I use cdn then its working. I am not getting what is the issue in downloaded file.
Here my code:
<html>
<head>
<link href="font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<i class="fa fa-user-circle-o"></i>
</body>
</html>
Does anyone know what is the issue?
There is no problem with body part of HTML. Surely, it has to be with font-awesome.min.css or its path.
There are two ways to go about this problem:
font-awesome.min.css may not loaded along with your HTML. Check in network tab of chrome DevTools. The path you have provided indicates chrome to look for the CSS file in same directory as the HTML file.
Alternatively, you can provide cdn link for font-awesome.min.css, if you dont want to maintain the CSS by yourself. For this, change link tab in head to below:
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
You have to host the font files too. Go to the fontawesome website and read the related documentation.
Font awesome get started
As you can understand from it's name, Font-Awesome has cool font-based approach to use icons. So, including CSS file is not enough. If you want to store your CSS file locally, you should store font files too.
As documented, you should have entire folder (including fonts folder which includes woff, tff etc) on your server.
Copy the entire font-awesome directory into your project.
In the of your html, reference the location to your font-awesome.min.css.
I am completely new to Digital Ocean. I have a Ubuntu droplet set up on digital ocean and am able to access my index.html file on port 80. My app is set up as a single page application using angular routing.
It loads the navbar and seems to be loading bootstrap...but both angular and my own css file are not loading. I initially thought it was a problem with my bower installing angular dependencies, but even just my local css file is not being attached. My css file is included with:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css"/>
For some reason bootstrap seems to be working though:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.4/css/bootstrap.min.css">
Any tips or suggestions on what the problem might be? I'm completely lost.
The hrefs in all your links are set up to work in your local environment, but not on digital ocean. Bootstrap works because you are linking to an external url on a CDN.
You'll have to work through all the relative links in your hrefs. There are numerous approaches to this, including embedding the entire server path.
I'm not certain but it might be enough to replace href="css/style.css" with href="/css/style.css" to get a root relative path.
You should first load your styles to Digital Ocean and link to them.
Here - href="css/style.css" - you use local path, which you have to replace with a URL of file on virtual machine.
I have got a website built in CakePHP and hosted on http://thecontrolist.azurewebsites.net. I am using git to update this website. I am using Coco theme which uses Fontello, Font-Awesome and a few other to create CSS icons in admin panel. When I pushed my work first time, the font's wont show on the live server however they show fine on my localhost/wamp server.
I thought there would have been some kind of file corruption while pushing font files through git. Hence I decided to upload font files in Fontello and Font-awesome using FTP. I hard refreshed and it worked. However, after some time it again stopped working.
I add the entire libs directory of the theme to gitignore list and uploaded all fonts in question using FTP once gitignore had been pushed. But it didn't fix the issue and fonts have stopped showing up again, so the gitignore didn't help. Any ideas what's going on?
Following the code:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/theme/coco/libs/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/theme/coco/libs/fontello/css/fontello.css" />
And you can view the files from linked. One thing I am very sure about is that when I reupload files using FTP and refresh it works but then it stops working automatically after some time so it does not seem like a font filepath issue.
Just don't use buggy fonts. Use more stable fonts like font-awesome.