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

This is the approach you don't need to use padding, just set the height and width for the a and let the flex handle with margin: 0 auto.

.social-links a{
  text-align:center;
	float: left;
	width: 36px;
	height: 36px;
	border: 2px solid #909090;
	border-radius: 100%;
	margin-right: 7px; /*space between*/
    display: flex;
    align-items: flex-start;
    transition: all 0.4s;
    -webkit-transition: all 0.4s;
} 
.social-links a i{
	font-size: 20px;
    align-self:center;
	color: #909090;
    transition: all 0.4s;
    -webkit-transition: all 0.4s;
    margin: 0 auto;
}
.social-links a i::before{
  display:inline-block;
  text-decoration:none;
}
.social-links a:hover{
  background: rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
}
.social-links a:hover i{
  color:#fff;
}

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

<div class="social-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>

Answer 2

This is the best and most precise solution I've found so far.

CSS:

.social .fa {
      margin-right: 1rem;
      border: 2px #fff solid;
      border-radius: 50%;
      height: 20px;
      width: 20px;
      line-height: 20px;
      text-align: center;
      padding: 0.5rem;
    }

Answer 3

i.fa {
  display: inline-block;
  border-radius: 60px;
  box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #888;
  padding: 0.5em 0.6em;

}

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

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JsFiddle of old answer: http://fiddle.jshell.net/4LqeN/

Answer 4

You can also do this. I wanted to add a circle around my icomoon icons. Here is the code.

span {
font-size: 54px;
border-radius: 50%;
border: 10px solid rgb(205, 209, 215);
padding: 30px;
}

Answer 5

The below example didnt quite work for me,this is the version that i made work!

HTML:

<div class="social-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>

CSS:

.social-links {
    text-align:center;
}

.social-links a{
    display: inline-block;
    width:50px;
    height: 50px;
    border: 2px solid #909090;
    border-radius: 50px;
    margin-right: 15px;

}
.social-links a i{
    padding: 18px 11px;
    font-size: 20px;
    color: #909090;
}

Answer 6

Font Awesome icons are inserted as a :before. Therefore you can style either your i or a like so:

.i {
   background: #fff;
   border-radius: 50%;
   display: inline-block;
   height: 20px;   
   width: 20px;
}

<a href="#"><i class="fa fa-facebook fa-lg"></i></a>