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Font Awesome 5
Font Awesome 5 has a PRO edition with 7842 icons, and a FREE edition with 1588 icons. This tutorial will concentrate on the FREE edition.
To use the Free Font Awesome 5 icons, you can choose to download the Font Awesome library, or you can sign up for an account at Font Awesome, and get a code (called KIT CODE) to use when you add Font Awesome to your web page.
We prefer the KIT CODE approach. Once you get the code you can start using Font Awesome on your web pages by including only one line of HTML code:
Example
We got the code a076d05399 and by inserting the script tag, with the code, we can start using Font Awesome:
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New in Font Awesome 5
New in Font Awesome 5 is the fas prefix, Font Awesome 4 uses fa.
The s in fas stands for solid, and some icons also have a regular mode, specified by using the prefix far:
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Try It Yourself »Font Awesome is designed to be used with inline elements. The and elements are widely used for icons.
Also note that if you change the font-size or color of the icon's container, the icon changes. Same things goes for shadow, and anything else that gets inherited using CSS.
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Try It Yourself »The fa-xs, fa-sm, fa-lg, fa-2x, fa-3x, fa-4x, fa-5x, fa-6x, fa-7x, fa-8x, fa-9x, or fa-10x classes are used to adjust the icon sizes relative to their container.
Example
The following code:
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The fa-ul and fa-li classes are used to replace default bullets in unordered lists.
Example
The following code:
- List Item
- List Item
- List Item
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Try It Yourself »The fa-spin class gets any icon to rotate, and the fa-pulse class gets any icon to rotate with 8 steps.
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The following code:
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Try It Yourself »Note: IE8 and IE9 do not support CSS3 animations.
The fa-rotate-* and fa-flip-* classes are used to rotate and flip icons.
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The following code:
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Try It Yourself »To stack multiple icons, use the fa-stack class on the parent, the fa-stack-1x class for the regularly sized icon, and fa-stack-2x for the larger icon.
The fa-inverse class can be used as an alternative icon color. You can also add larger icon classes to the parent to further control the sizing.
Example
The following code:
fa-twitter (inverse) on fa-circle (solid)
fa-twitter on fa-circle (regular)
fa-ban on fa-camera
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Try It Yourself »Just like letters and other characters, icons can have different widths, and if you need to vertically align icons like in a list or a menu, this can be a problem.
The fa-fw class is used to set icons at a fixed width.
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The fa-border, fa-pull-right or fa-pull-left classes are used for for pull quotes or article icons.
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The following code:
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