I'm using bootstrap and Font Awesome. In a custom css class I'm working on I tried to include Font Awesome icons instead of using images. Here is my code before Font Awesome.
.data .close {
display: block;
float: right;
width: 30px;
height: 30px;
background: url(../img/close.png) top right no-repeat;
text-align: right;
outline: none;
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=70);
opacity: 0.7;
}
.next {
right: 0;
float: right;
}
.next:hover {
background: url(../img/next.png) right 48% no-repeat;
}
Here is my code using Font Awesome, which obviously doesn't work. The icons don't show. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
.data .close {
display: block;
float: right;
width: 30px;
height: 30px;
font-family: FontAwesome
content: "\f00d";
text-align: right;
outline: none;
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=70);
opacity: 0.7;
}
.next {
right: 0;
float: right;
}
.next:hover {
font-family: FontAwesome
content: "\f054";
}
html header
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css">
</head>
....
....
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Instructions for Drupal 8 / FontAwesome 5
Create a YOUR_THEME_NAME_HERE.THEME file and place it in your themes directory (ie. your_site_name/themes/your_theme_name)
Paste this into the file, it is PHP code to find the Search Block and change the value to the UNICODE for the FontAwesome icon. You can find other characters at this link https://fontawesome.com/cheatsheet.
<?php
function YOUR_THEME_NAME_HERE_form_search_block_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state) {
$form['keys']['#attributes']['placeholder'][] = t('Search');
$form['actions']['submit']['#value'] = html_entity_decode('');
}
?>
Open the CSS file of your theme (ie. your_site_name/themes/your_theme_name/css/styles.css) and then paste this in which will change all input submit text to FontAwesome. Not sure if this will work if you also want to add text in the input button though for just an icon it is fine.
Make sure you import FontAwesome, add this at the top of the CSS file
@import url('https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.9/css/all.css');
then add this in the CSS
input#edit-submit {
font-family: 'Font Awesome\ 5 Free';
background-color: transparent;
border: 0;
}
FLUSH ALL CACHES AND IT SHOULD WORK FINE
Add Google Font Effects
If you are using Google Web Fonts as well you can add also add effects to the icon (see more here https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started#enabling_font_effects_beta). You need to import a Google Web Font including the effect(s) you would like to use first in the CSS so it will be
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,800&effect=3d-float');
@import url('https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.9/css/all.css');
Then go back to your .THEME file and add the class for the 3D Float Effect so the code will now add a class to the input. There are different effects available. So just choose the effect you like, change the CSS for the font import and the change the value FONT-EFFECT-3D-FLOAT int the code below to font-effect-WHATEVER_EFFECT_HERE. Note effects are still in Beta and don't work in all browsers so read here before you try it https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started#enabling_font_effects_beta
<?php
function YOUR_THEME_NAME_HERE_form_search_block_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state) {
$form['keys']['#attributes']['placeholder'][] = t('Search');
$form['actions']['submit']['#value'] = html_entity_decode('');
$form['actions']['submit']['#attributes']['class'][] = 'font-effect-3d-float';
}
?>
The spirit of Web font is to use cache as much as possible, therefore you should use CDN version between <head></head> instead of hosting yourself:
<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/3.2.1/css/font-awesome.css" rel="stylesheet">
Also, make sure you loaded your CSS AFTER the above line, or your custom font CSS won't work.
Reference: Font Awesome Get Started
Try this way.
In your css file change font-family: FontAwesome into font-family: "FontAwesome"; or font-family: 'FontAwesome';. I've solved the same problem using this method.
Source: Stackoverflow.com