Font awesome is not showing icon

111

votes

I am using Font Awesome and do not wish to add CSS with HTTP. I downloaded Font Awesome and included it in my code, yet Font Awesome is showing a bordered square box instead of an icon. Here is my code:

<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/font-awesome.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/font-awesome.min.css">
</head>
<body>
<div style="font-size: 44px;">
   <i class="fa fa-camera-retro fa-lg"></i> fa-lg
<i class="fa fa-camera-retro fa-2x"></i> fa-2x
</div>
</body>
</html>

I would like to know how to make the icon display instead of the bordered square box.

htmlcssfont-awesome

This has been asked many times before. Make sure you're including the font files too.. not just the CSS stackoverflow.com/questions/14366158/… – Zim

here is the link to font-awesome tourbleshooting guide in git github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/wiki/Troubleshooting – Mehavel

please updated the question with your folder structure in which you have font-awesome folder, So which we can make out that "font-awesome.min.css" is correctly getting the ttf path or not.Only css would not work. – Ajit Hogade

stackoverflow.com/a/42355738/397872 – rishta

91

votes

In my case i made the following mistake in my css code.

*{
    font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif !important;
}

This will override all font family rules for the entire page. My solution was to move the code to body like so.

body{
    font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
}

NB: Whenever you use the !important flag in css, any other css rule declared of the same type on the same element will get overriden.

62

votes

When you open font-awesome.min.css you can see following path:

'Fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf?v=4.2.0' ...

It means that you have to create directory Fonts and then copy files fontawesome-webfont.ttf (fontawesome-webfont.woff, fontawesome-webfont.eot) to this folder. After that everything should work fine.

51

votes

Be aware that the new version (5) of font awesome uses "fas" or "fab" instead of "fa" prefix.

Quoted from their website:

The fa prefix has been deprecated in version 5. The new default is the fas solid style and the fab style for brands.

This is why my fonts were showing blank squares. Now fixed.

Example code:

<a class="nav-link" href="//www.facebook.com/xxx" target="_blank"><i class="fab fa-facebook-f"></i></a>

See: https://fontawesome.com/icons/facebook-f?style=brands

23

votes

First, check that you have class="fa" as well as whatever the icon's class is. So, not just

<i class="fa-pencil" title="Edit"></i>

But also

<i class="fa fa-pencil" title="Edit"></i>

Then it works as expected. This solved my issue.

21

votes

Open your font-awesome.css theres code like :

@font-face {
  font-family: 'FontAwesome';
  src: url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.eot?v=4.5.0');
  src: url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.eot?#iefix&v=4.5.0') format('embedded-opentype'), url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.5.0') format('woff2'), url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff?v=4.5.0') format('woff'), url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf?v=4.5.0') format('truetype'), url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.svg?v=4.5.0#fontawesomeregular') format('svg');
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
}

you must have folder like :

font awesome -> css
 -> fonts

or the easiest way :

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.4.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">

10

votes

Check that the path to your CSS file is correct. Rather prefer absolute links, they are easier to understand since we know where we start from and search engines will also prefer them over relative links. And to reduce bandwidth rather use the link from font-awesome servers:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.2.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" type="text/css">

Moreover if you use it, there will be no need of uploading extra fonts to your server and you will be sure that you point to the right CSS file, and you will also benefit from the latest updates instantly.

10

votes

i was dealing with the same problem then i figured it out i have to use new version (5 and plus)

use this cdn it will work.

<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.9.0/css/all.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

6

votes

i was facing the same issue.. so instead of downloading font awesome , i added a link in my html code and it worked.

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.11.2/js/all.js" integrity="sha256-2JRzNxMJiS0aHOJjG+liqsEOuBb6++9cY4dSOyiijX4=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

4

votes

For a start, you shouldn't have both font-awesome.css and font-awesome.min.css

Generally, use font-awesome.css during development, then switch to font-awesome.min.css once you're happy with the site.

Problems like this are often caused by relative paths and locations, so check where your html file is in relation to the css.

If your html file is in the base directory, and the css in a subfolder off the root, you would need: href="./css/font-awesome.css" (single period)

4

votes

All the above are correct however on top of that my issue was that I downloaded the free version of FA5 which doesn't have:

font-family:'FontAwesome';src:url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.eot?v=4.7.0')

I could not get v5 to work so I reverted to 4.7.0 with the help of the posts above and it fixed my issue.

4

votes

I'm using FontAwesome Pro, and the solution for me was to embed all.min.css instead of fontawesome.min.css.

3

votes

For those of you using SCSS and the NPM package, here is my solution:

npm i --save @fortawesome/fontawesome-free

Then at the top of an SCSS file (ideally an SCSS file imported at the root of your application):

@import '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/fontawesome.css';
@import '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/all.css';

3

votes

It's something to do with v5, some of the icons don't work with older versions.

This link worked for me!

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.1/css/all.min.css">

2

votes

I successfully installed Font Awesome using their CDN and javascript include (as described on this page). Then I tried to copy the HTML and CSS to some legacy pages and suddenly I saw empty square boxes instead of the icons.

I saw Daniel's answer (above) and because my legacy CSS file was huge (and years old) I suspected that was the issue. However when I looked in Chrome DevTools it really looked like Font Awesome was loaded:

I was expecting to see the font in strikeout if there was an issue... However I had really exhausted all my options so I checked the Computed Styles and saw clearly that the Font Awesome font was definitely not being used. (See the Rendered font at the bottom)

My legacy CSS file was a mess and I preferred not to touch it, so I cheated by doing this - please don't tell anyone :)

<a class="nav-link fa fa-instagram" style="font-family:FontAwesome;" href="//www.instagram.com/xxxx/" target="_blank"></a>

Also to note, when I upgraded from Font Awesome version 4.7.0 to version 5.4.1 this issue went away! I used this setup guide and this HTML

<a class="nav-link" href="//www.instagram.com/xxxx/" target="_blank"><i class="fab fa-instagram"></i></a>

2

votes

In my case, I needed to combine the answers from sst & Bruno Leveque:

https://fontawesome.com/download
download via Free for web, unpack
copy all folders into /fontawesome/
link the all.min.css instead of fontawesome.css

Example Django:

# in myapplication/vendor/fontawesome/ everything unpacked
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'myapplication/vendor/fontawesome/css/all.min.css' %}">

1

votes

I think you have not fonts folder in your root folder like where stay css folder.

Demo

And css folder is like

And fonts folder like

I hope it will work for you.

Thanks you.

1

votes

In my case: You need to copy the whole font-awesome folder to your project css folder and not just the font-awesome.min.css file.

1

votes

So it seems adding style='font-weight:normal;' or otherwise changing the font directly on the element overrides the .fas{font-weight:900} definition in Font Awesome's CSS file. I guess the font has specific defines within the font file that it works with. It seems the font-weight must be set between 501 and 1000, or the font may look like a square block.

1

votes

my issue was the one having most of the votes

*{
font-family: xxxxx
}

changing it to this solved the problem

body{
font-family: xxxx
}

1

votes

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.11.2/js/all.js" integrity="sha256-2JRzNxMJiS0aHOJjG+liqsEOuBb6++9cY4dSOyiijX4=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

0

votes

You may have used a VCS (git or somesuch) to transfer icon files to the server. git says:

warning: CRLF will be replaced by LF in webroot/fonts/FontAwesome.otf.
The file will have its original line endings in your working directory.
warning: CRLF will be replaced by LF in webroot/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.eot.
The file will have its original line endings in your working directory.
warning: CRLF will be replaced by LF in webroot/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf.
The file will have its original line endings in your working directory.
warning: CRLF will be replaced by LF in webroot/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff.
The file will have its original line endings in your working directory.
warning: CRLF will be replaced by LF in webroot/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2.
The file will have its original line endings in your working directory.

You probably have to fix your fonts.

0

votes

On MacOS Mojave, I had this problem in Safari. The font-awesome images worked in Chrome but not in Safari, so I was sure it wasn't the site.

I got them to render by going to Preferences in the Safari menu, and disabling/unchecking "Prevent cross-site tracking" under the Privacy tab.

Not sure why this fixed it, but it did.

0

votes

Watch out for Bootstrap! Bootstrap will override .fa classes. If you're bringing in both packages separately thinking "I'll use Bootstrap for responsive block handling and Font-Awesome for icons", you need to address the .fa classes inside Bootstrap so they don't interfere with Font-Awesome's stand-alone implementation.

eg: font-family 'FontAwesome' in Bootstrap will interfere with font-family 'Font Awesome 5 Free' in Font-Awesome and you will get a white box instead of the icon you want.

There may be cleaner ways of handling this, but if you've gone down the checklist trying to fix the "white box" issue and still can't figure it out (like I did), this may be the answer you're looking for.

0

votes

Based on the 5.10.1 version.

My solution (locally):

If you're using "fontawesome.css" or "fontawesome.min.css", try using "all.css" instead (located in the css folder).
The "css" folder and the "webfonts" folder from the fontawesome package that you downloaded must be in the same level as each other.

In my case, I already had a css folder so I just renamed the fontawesome css folder to "css-fa".

With both "css-fa" and "webfonts" in my css folder, simply link it correctly in your text editor and it should work.

Ex: link rel="stylesheet" href="css/css-fa/all.css"

0

votes

solved changing the targetted !importantized font-family selector from * { ... } to *:not(i) { ... }

(with scss preprocessor); hope u solved

0

votes

In my case, the problem was caused by using some regular styles (far) that are not included in the free set. Changing to fas fixed it.

0

votes

The code below is font-awesome 4.70.0. To go to font-awesome 5.11.2, click here.

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<link rel="stylesheet" 
href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font- 
awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">

</head>

<body>

<i class="fa fa-camera-retro" aria-hidden="true"></i>

</html>

0

votes

I was following this tutorial to host Font Awesome Pro 5.13 myself.

https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/on-the-web/setup/hosting-font-awesome-yourself

For some reason I could not get <link href="%PUBLIC_URL%/font-awesome/all.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> to load webfonts that in turn resulted in only squares showing up. But when I used <script defer src="%PUBLIC_URL%/font-awesome/all.min.js"></script> everything started working. Both links were added in HTML <head>.

0

votes

I was trying to add fa 5.0.13 to drupal 8 with scss. The styles are not included by default in the main fa.scss had to add them manually.

@import "libraries/fontawesome/fa-brands";
@import "libraries/fontawesome/fa-light";
@import "libraries/fontawesome/fa-regular";
@import "libraries/fontawesome/fa-solid";

0

votes

you need to put font-awesome file in css folder and change

href="../css/font-awesome.css" to href="css/font-awesome.css"

One more thing You can Replace this Font-awesome css File And and try this one

.social-media{
  list-style-type: none;
  padding: 0px;
  margin: 0px;
}

.social-media li .fa{ 
  background: #fff;
  color: #262626;
  width: 50px;
  height: 50px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  text-align:center;
  line-height:50px; 
}

.social-media .fa:hover { 
  box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #000; 
}

.social-media .fa.fa-twitter:hover{
  background:#55acee;
  color:#fff;
 
}

.social-media .fa.fa-facebook:hover{
  background:#3b5998;
  color:#fff;
}

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

<ul class="social-media">
  <li><i class="fa fa-twitter fa-2x"></i></li>
  <li><i class="fa fa-facebook fa-2x"></i></li>
 
</ul>

Font awesome is not showing icon

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