Want to make Font Awesome icons clickable

Question

So I am new to web development and I am trying to link font awesome icons to my social profiles but am unsure of how to do that. I tried using an a href tag but it made all

Answer 1

Please use Like below.
<a style="cursor: pointer" **(click)="yourFunctionComponent()"** >
<i class="fa fa-dribbble fa-4x"></i>
 </a>

The above can be used so that the fa icon will be shown and also on the click function you could write your logic.

Answer 2

If you don't want it to add it to a link, you can just enclose it within a span and that would work.

<span id='clickableAwesomeFont'><i class="fa fa-behance-square fa-4x"></span>

in your css, then you can:

#clickableAwesomeFont {
     cursor: pointer
}

Then in java script, you can just add a click handler.

In cases where it's actually not a link, I think this is much cleaner and using a link would be changing its semantics and abusing its meaning.

Answer 3

I found this worked best for my usecase:

<i class="btn btn-light fa fa-dribbble fa-4x" href="#"></i>
<i class="btn btn-light fa fa-behance-square fa-4x" href="#"></i>
<i class="btn btn-light fa fa-linkedin-square fa-4x" href="#"></i>
<i class="btn btn-light fa fa-twitter-square fa-4x" href="#"></i>
<i class="btn btn-light fa fa-facebook-square fa-4x" href="#"></i>

Answer 4

             <a href="#"><i class="fab fa-facebook-square"></i></a> 
             <a href="#"><i class="fab fa-twitter-square"></i></a> 
             <a href="#"><i class="fas fa-basketball-ball"></i></a> 
             <a href="#"><i class="fab fa-google-plus-square"></i></a>


              All you have to do is wrap your font-awesome icon link in your HTML 
                               with an anchor tag.
        Following this format:
                   <a href="Link here"> <font-awesome icon code> </a>

Answer 5

In your css add a class:

.fa-clickable {
    cursor:pointer;
    outline:none;
}

Then add the class to the clickable fontawesome icons (also an id so you can differentiate the clicks):

 <i class="fa fa-dribbble fa-4x fa-clickable" id="epd-dribble"></i>
 <i class="fa fa-behance-square fa-4x fa-clickable" id="epd-behance"></i>
 <i class="fa fa-linkedin-square fa-4x fa-clickable" id="epd-linkedin"></i>
 <i class="fa fa-twitter-square fa-4x fa-clickable" id="epd-twitter"></i>
 <i class="fa fa-facebook-square fa-4x fa-clickable" id="epd-facebook"></i>

Then add a handler in your jQuery

$(document).on("click", "i", function(){
    switch (this.id) {
        case "epd-dribble":
            // do stuff
            break;
        // add additional cases
    }
});

Answer 6

Using bootstrap with font awesome.

<a class="btn btn-large btn-primary logout" href="#">
        <i class="fa fa-sign-out" aria-hidden="true">Logout</i>
</a>