Html – Font Awesome not working, icons showing as squares

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So I'm trying to prototype a marketing page and I'm using Bootstrap and the new Font Awesome file. The problem is that when I try to use an icon, all that gets rendered on the page is a big square.

Here's how I include the files in the head:

<head>
        <title>Page Title</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bootstrap.css">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bootstrap-responsive.css">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/font-awesome.css">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/app.css">
        <!--[if IE 7]>
            <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/font-awesome-ie7.min.css">
        <![endif]-->
</head>

And here's an example of me trying to use an icon:

<i class="icon-camera-retro"></i>

But all that gets rendered in a big square. Does anyone know what could be going on?

Best Answer

You must have 2 classes, the fa class and the class that identifies the desired icon fa-twitter, fa-search, etc …

<!-- Wrong -->
<i class="fa-search"></i>    

<!-- Correct -->
<i class="fa fa-search"></i>

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Be sure to set position:relative on your actual text wrapper for the positioning to work.

.mytextwithicon {
    position:relative;
}    
.mytextwithicon:before {
    content: "\25AE";  /* this is your text. You can also use UTF-8 character codes as I do here */
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    top:0;
 }

EDIT:

Font Awesome v5 uses other font names than older versions:

For FontAwesome v5, Free Version, use: font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Free"
For FontAwesome v5, Pro Version, use: font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Pro"

Note that you should set the same font-weight property, too (seems to be 900).

Another way to find the font name is to right click on a sample font awesome icon on your page and get the font name (same way the utf-8 icon code can be found, but note that you can find it out on :before).

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