FontAwesome icons not showing. Why?

Question

Recently I\'ve been developing this website and I\'m trying to put a font awesome icons in it, so it\'s scalable.

The thing is they are not showing up.

Look

Answer 1

Try the below two links keep in header tag.

<link href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.1.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

Getting the Icons from the below link :

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/3.2.1/assets/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css">

Answer 2

At first I couldn't get this to work with Font Awesome 5:

<i class="fa fa-sort-down"></i>

That's why I came here, being unfamiliar with font awesome. So when I looked further I noticed that my issue was merely an issue with the version.

w3schools helped me out in this case.

New in Font Awesome 5 is the fas prefix, Font Awesome 4 uses fa.

The s in fas stands for solid, and some icons also have a regular mode, specified by using the prefix far.

I already noticed the different files in the FontAwesome css folder, like:

• all.min.css
• brands.min.css
• fontawesome.min.css
• regular.min.css
• solid.min.css

And that's when I realized my mistake. All I had to do was include the appropriate css to the html:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="~/lib/Font-Awesome/css/fontawesome.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="~/lib/Font-Awesome/css/regular.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="~/lib/Font-Awesome/css/solid.min.css">

And then reference the correct item:

<i class="fas fa-sort-down"></i>

This setup works for me. Though not all items have equivalents in each type. This will not work:

<i class="far fa-sort-down"></i>

As a side note, when you don't want to reference all seperate files then this will suffice:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="~/lib/Font-Awesome/css/fontawesome.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="~/lib/Font-Awesome/css/all.min.css">

Answer 3

To whoever may be checking this out in 2018. I am using font awesome 4.7.0 and I got this issue solved by simply taking out the s in fas as seen in the code <i class="fa fa-[icon-name]"></i>. This was originally <i class="fas fa-[icon-name]"></i>.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Mine was not working because I wanted an icon which was not released in the FA version I was using.

This answers why some icons shows but others no.

Pretty obvious but I guess some people still fall for this. Like me.

Answer 5

Use this link:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.14.0/css/brands.min.css" integrity="sha512-AMDXrE+qaoUHsd0DXQJr5dL4m5xmpkGLxXZQik2TvR2VCVKT/XRPQ4e/LTnwl84mCv+eFm92UG6ErWDtGM/Q5Q==" crossorigin="anonymous" />

Answer 6

You must use https for maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. Only https on maxcdn support CORS

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.2.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen" />