Make Font Awesome icons in a circle?

Question

I am using font awesome on some project but I have some things that I want to do with font awesome icons, I can easily call an icon like this:

Answer 1

You can simply get round icon using this code:

<a class="facebook-share-button social-icons" href="#" target="_blank">
    <i class="fab fa-facebook socialicons"></i>
</a>

Now your CSS will be:

.social-icons {
display: inline-block;border-radius: 25px;box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #888;
padding: 0.5em;
background: #0D47A1;
font-size: 20px;
}
.socialicons{color: white;}

Answer 2

With Font Awesome you can easily use stacked icons like this:

<span class="fa-stack fa-2x">
  <i class="fas fa-circle-thin fa-stack-2x"></i>
  <i class="fas fa-lock fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i>
</span>

refer Font Awesome Stacked Icons

Update:- Fiddle for stacked icons

Answer 3

Font icon in a circle using em as the base measurement

if you use ems for the measurements, including line-height, font-size and border-radius, with text-align: center it makes things pretty solid:

#info i {
  font-size: 1.6em;
  width: 1.6em;
  text-align: center;
  line-height: 1.6em;
  background: #666;
  color: #fff;
  border-radius: 0.8em; /* or 50% width & line-height */
}

Answer 4

UPDATE:

Upon learning flex recently, there is a cleaner way (no tables and less css). Set the wrapper as display: flex; and to center it's children give it the properties align-items: center; for (vertical) and justify-content: center; (horizontal) centering.

See this updated JS Fiddle

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Strange that nobody suggested this before.. I always use tables to do this.
Simply make a wrapper have display: table and center stuff inside it with text-align: center for horizontal and vertical-align: middle for vertical alignment.

<div class='wrapper'>
  <i class='icon fa fa-bars'></i>
</div>

and some sass like this

.wrapper{
  display: table; 

  i{
    display: table-cell;
    vertical-align: middle;
    text-align: center;
  }

}

or see this JS Fiddle

Answer 5

Update: Rather use flex.

If you want precision this is the way to go.

Fiddle. Go Play -> http://jsfiddle.net/atilkan/zxjcrhga/

Here is the HTML

<div class="sosial-links">
    <a href="#"><i class="fa fa-facebook fa-lg"></i></a>
    <a href="#"><i class="fa fa-twitter fa-lg"></i></a>
    <a href="#"><i class="fa fa-google-plus fa-lg"></i></a>
    <a href="#"><i class="fa fa-pinterest fa-lg"></i></a>
</div>

Here is the CSS

.sosial-links a{
    display: block;
    float: left;
    width: 36px;
    height: 36px;
    border: 2px solid #909090;
    border-radius: 20px;
    margin-right: 7px; /*space between*/

} 
.sosial-links a i{
    padding: 12px 11px;
    font-size: 20px;
    color: #909090;
}

Have Fun

Answer 6

You don't need css or html tricks for it. Font Awesome has built in class for it - fa-circle To stack multiple icons together you can use fa-stack class on the parent div

<span class="fa-stack fa-lg">
  <i class="fa fa-circle fa-stack-2x"></i>
  <i class="fa fa-flag fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i>
</span> 

//And we have now facebook icon inside circle:)