Can I change the color of Font Awesome's icon color?

Question

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?

<a href="/users/edit"><i class="icon-cog"></i> Edit profile</a>

Answer 1

This worked for me:

.icon-cog {
  color: black;
}

For versions of Font Awesome above 4.7.0, it looks this:

.fa-cog {
  color: black;
}

Answer 2

HTML:

    <i class="icon-cog blackiconcolor">

css :

    .blackiconcolor {color:black;}

you can also add extra class to the button icon...

Answer 3

You can specify the color in the style attribute:

<a href="/users/edit"><i class="icon-cog" style="color:black"></i> Edit profile</a>

Answer 4

Try this:

<i class="icon-cog text-red">
<i class="icon-cog text-blue">
<i class="icon-cog text-yellow">

Answer 5

To change the font awesome icons color for your entire project use this in your css

.fa {
  color : red;
}

Answer 6

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>

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

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 -->
<a href="/users/edit" class="fa fa-cog" style="color:black"> Edit Profile</a>

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.

Answer 10

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>

Answer 11

.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

Answer 12

You can change the Font Awesome's icon color with the bootstrap class

use

text-color

example

text-white

Answer 13

For me the only thing that worked is inline css + overriding

<i class="fas fa-ellipsis-v fa-2x" style="color:red !important"></i>

Answer 14

just give it the style whatever you want like

style="color: white;font-size: 20px;"

Answer 15

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>

---

Answer 16

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">

Answer 17

If you want to change the color of a specific icon, you can use something like this:

.fa-stop {
    color:red;
}

Answer 18

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

Answer 19

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.

Answer 20

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!

Answer 21

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.