A font awesome icon Usage,CSS Class Name,SVG & CSS Content Code

A font awesome icon css class name is fa-a and CSS Content Code is \41.

A font awesome icon is part of solid icons.

A font awesome icon usage

We can display A font awesome icon using 3 different ways depending upon our requirement.

  1. Using CSS Class Name

  2. Using CSS Content Code

  3. Using SVG

A font awesome icon CSS class name

To display A font awesome icon, add predefined class name i.e.,fa-a (with prefix fa-) to the i tag.

And we need to add corresponding font awesome icon style for the A icon.

A icon has 1 icon style i.e.,solid. We need to append icon style class fas.

<i class='fas fa-a'></i>

Output:

A font awesome icon CSS Content Code

We can display A font awesome icon using it’s CSS Content Code \41

Use the following HTML code

<li><span class='A fontawesomeicon'></span>A</li>

Apply CSS code

<style> 
.fontawesomeicon::before {
    display: inline-block;
    text-rendering: auto;
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
 }

.A::before {
   font: var(--fa-font-solid);
    content: ' \41';
 }</style>

Output:

.fontawesomeicon::before { display: inline-block; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; } .A::before { font: var(--fa-font-solid); content: ' \41'; }
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  • For the detailed tutorial visit https://www.angularjswiki.com/fontawesome/csscontentcode/

    A font awesome icon SVG

    Use the following icon SVG to display A font awesome icon.

    <svg class='fontawesomesvg' xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512"><!--! Font Awesome Free 6.2.0 by @fontawesome - https://fontawesome.com License - https://fontawesome.com/license/free (Icons: CC BY 4.0, Fonts: SIL OFL 1.1, Code: MIT License) Copyright 2022 Fonticons, Inc. --><path d="M253.5 51.7C248.6 39.8 236.9 32 224 32s-24.6 7.8-29.5 19.7l-120 288-40 96c-6.8 16.3 .9 35 17.2 41.8s35-.9 41.8-17.2L125.3 384H322.7l31.8 76.3c6.8 16.3 25.5 24 41.8 17.2s24-25.5 17.2-41.8l-40-96-120-288zM296 320H152l72-172.8L296 320z"/></svg>
    
    

    Use the following HTML code

    <p>This <svg class='fontawesomesvg' xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512"><!--! Font Awesome Free 6.2.0 by @fontawesome - https://fontawesome.com License - https://fontawesome.com/license/free (Icons: CC BY 4.0, Fonts: SIL OFL 1.1, Code: MIT License) Copyright 2022 Fonticons, Inc. --><path d="M253.5 51.7C248.6 39.8 236.9 32 224 32s-24.6 7.8-29.5 19.7l-120 288-40 96c-6.8 16.3 .9 35 17.2 41.8s35-.9 41.8-17.2L125.3 384H322.7l31.8 76.3c6.8 16.3 25.5 24 41.8 17.2s24-25.5 17.2-41.8l-40-96-120-288zM296 320H152l72-172.8L296 320z"/></svg>
     A displayed using SVG</p>
    

    Apply CSS code

    
      <style>
        .fontawesomesvg {width: 1em;
          height: 1em;
          vertical-align: -.125em;
        }
      </style>
    
    

    Output:

    .fontawesomesvg {width: 1em; height: 1em; vertical-align: -.125em; }

    This A displayed using SVG

    Change A font awesome icon size

    To increase A font awesome icon size, use the fa-lg(33 % increase), fa-2x, fa-3x, fa-4x, or fa-5x classes along with icon class \41. Increase in icon size will be relative to their parent container.

    <i class='fas fa-a fa-lg'>fa-lg</i><br/>
    <i class='fas fa-a fa-2x'>fa-2x</i><br/>
    <i class='fas fa-a fa-3x'>fa-3x</i><br/>
    <i class='fas fa-a fa-4x'>fa-4x</i><br/>
    <i class='fas fa-a fa-5x'>fa-5x</i><br/>
    
    

    Output:

    fa-lg
    fa-2x
    fa-3x
    fa-4x
    fa-5x

    A font awesome icon with Fixed Width

    All the font awesome icons does not have same width.

    For example A icon and home icon may not have same height and width.

    So to display two icons with fixed width and height we can use fa-fw class.

    <i style='border:1px solid;' class='fas fa-a fa-fw fa-3x'></i>Fixed Width<i style='border:1px solid;' class='fas fa-a fa-3x'></i>Normal<br/>
    <i style='border:1px solid;' class='fas fa-home fa-fw fa-3x'></i>Fixed Width<i style='border:1px solid;' class='fas fa-home fa-3x'></i>Normal<br/>
    
    

    Output:

    Fixed WidthNormal
    Fixed WidthNormal

    A font awesome icon Border

    To add border to A font awesome icon, use fa-border class.

    <i class='fas fa-a fa-border fa-3x'></i>
    

    Output:

    Pull A font awesome icon To the left

    To pull A icon to the left of the container use fa-pull-left class.

    <div style='width: 200px;'>
    <i class='fas fa-a fa-pull-left fa-3x'></i>
      ... The text after A Icon will be displayed on the right side of the icon.
    </div>
    <div style = 'clear: both;'></div>
    

    Output:

    ... The text after A Icon will be displayed on the right side of the icon.

    Pull A font awesome icon To the left

    To pull A icon to the right of the container use fa-pull-right class.

    <div style='width: 200px;'>
    <i class='fas fa-a fa-pull-right fa-3x'></i>
      ... The text after A Icon will be displayed on the left side of the icon.
    </div>
    <div style = 'clear: both;'></div>
    

    Output:

    ... The text after A Icon will be displayed on the left side of the icon.

    Animate A font awesome icon

    To animate A font awesome icon, use fa-spin class.

    <i class='fas fa-a fa-spin fa-3x'></i>
    

    Output:

    Animate A font awesome icon with steps

    While animating the font awesome icon,We can rotate A icon in 8 steps instead of uniform rotation.

    We can use fa-pulse icon along with fa-spin class.

    <i class='fas fa-a fa-spin fa-pulse fa-3x'></i>
    

    Output:

    Rotate A font awesome icon

    To rotate A font awesome icon, Use fa-rotate-x class

    Where ‘x’ represents degree of rotation.

    <div>
    <i class='fas fa-a fa-3x'>R</i>normal<br/><br/>
    <i class='fas fa-a fa-rotate-90 fa-3x'>R</i> fa-rotate-90<br/><br/> 
    <i class='fas fa-a fa-rotate-180  fa-3x'>R</i> fa-rotate-180<br/><br/> 
    <i class='fas fa-a fa-rotate-270 fa-3x'>R</i> fa-rotate-270<br/><br/>
    </div>
    

    Output:

    Rnormal

    R fa-rotate-90

    R fa-rotate-180

    R fa-rotate-270

    Flip A font awesome icon

    To flip A font awesome icon horizontally and vertically use fa-flip-horizontal and fa-flip-vertical classes.

    <div>
    <i class='fas fa-a fa-3x'>F</i> Normal <br>
    <i class='fas fa-a fa-flip-horizontal fa-3x'>F</i> fa-flip-horizontal<br>
    <i class='fas fa-a fa-flip-vertical fa-3x'>F</i> fa-flip-vertical<br>
    </div>
    

    Output:

    F Normal
    F fa-flip-horizontal
    F fa-flip-vertical

    Combine A font awesome icon with other font awesome icons

    In font awesome icons,using stacking we can combine multiple icons and display it as one icon.

    To do that use the fa-stack class on the parent, the fa-stack-1x for the regularly sized icon, and fa-stack-2x for the larger icon.

    And use class fa-inverse for an alternative icon color.

    In the below example, I am displaying A font awesome icon on top of icons like fa-square,fa-circle and fa-ban.

    And used fa-inverse in the second example to invert the color of the icon.

    <div>
        <span class='fa-stack fa-lg'>
            <i class='far fa-square fa-stack-2x'></i>
            <i class='fas fa-a fa-stack-1x'></i>
        </span>
          A on fa-square<br>
        <span class='fa-stack fa-lg'>
            <i class='fas fa-circle fa-stack-2x'></i>
            <i class='fas fa-a fa-stack-1x fa-inverse'></i>
        </span>
          A on fa-circle<br>
    
        <span class='fa-stack fa-lg'>
            <i class='fas fa-a fa-stack-1x'></i>
            <i class='fas fa-ban fa-stack-2x'></i>
        </span>
          A on fa-ban
    </div>
    

    Output:

    A on fa-square
    A on fa-circle
    A on fa-ban