Font-awesome, input type 'submit'

There seems to be no class for input type 'submit' in font-awesome. Is it possible to use some class from font-awesome for button input? I've added icons to all buttons (which actually links with class 'btn' from twitter-bootstrap) in my applications, but can't add icons on 'input type submit'.

Or, how to use this code:

input#image-button{
    background: #ccc url('icon.png') no-repeat top left;
    padding-left: 16px;
    height: 16px;
}

html:

<input type="submit" id="image-button">Text</input>

(which I took from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1621891/html-how-to-make-a-submit-button-with-text-image-in-it) with font-awesome?

use button type="submit" instead of input

<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">
    <i class="fa fa-arrow-circle-right fa-lg"></i> Next
</button>

for Font Awesome 3.2.0 use

<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">
    <i class="icon-circle-arrow-right icon-large"></i> Next
</button>

HTML

Since <input> element displays only value of value attribute, we have to manipulate only it:

<input type="submit" class="btn fa-input" value="&#xf043; Input">

I'm using  entity here, which corresponds to the U+F043, the Font Awesome's 'tint' symbol.

CSS

Then we have to style it to use the font:

.fa-input {
  font-family: FontAwesome, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}

Which will give us the tint symbol in Font Awesome and the other text in the appropriate font.

However, this control will not be pixel-perfect, so you might have to tweak it by yourself.

You can use font awesome utf cheatsheet

<input type="submit" class="btn btn-success" value="&#xf011; Login"/>

here is the link for the cheatsheet http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/cheatsheet/

Well, technically it's not possible to get :before and :after pseudo elements work on input elements

From W3C:

>

12.1 The :before and :after pseudo-elements

> Authors specify the style and location of generated content with the > :before and :after pseudo-elements. As their names indicate, the > :before and :after pseudo-elements specify the location of content > before and after an element's document tree content. The 'content' > property, in conjunction with these pseudo-elements, specifies what is > inserted.

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So I had a project where I had submit buttons in the form of input tags and for some reason the other developers restricted me to use <button> tags instead of the usual input submit buttons, so I came up with another solution, of wrapping the buttons inside a span set to position: relative; and then absolutely positioning the icon using :after pseudo.

> Note: The demo fiddle uses the content code for FontAwesome 3.2.1 so > you may need to change the value of content property accordingly.

HTML

<span><input type="submit" value="Send" class="btn btn-default" /></span>

CSS

input[type="submit"] {
    margin: 10px;
    padding-right: 30px;
}

span {
    position: relative;
}

span:after {
    font-family: FontAwesome;
    content: "\f004"; /* Value may need to be changed in newer version of font awesome*/
    font-size: 13px;
    position: absolute;
    right: 20px;
    top: 1px;
    pointer-events: none;
}

Demo

Now here everything is self explanatory here, about one property i.e pointer-events: none;, I've used that because on hovering over the :after pseudo generated content, your button won't click, so using the value of none will force the click action to go pass through that content.

From Mozilla Developer Network :

> In addition to indicating that the element is not the target of mouse > events, the value none instructs the mouse event to go "through" the > element and target whatever is "underneath" that element instead.

Hover the heart font/icon Demo and see what happens if you DON'T use pointer-events: none;

You can use button classes btn-link and btn-xs with type submit, which will make a small invisible button with an icon inside of it. Example:

<button class="btn btn-link btn-xs" type="submit" name="action" value="delete">
	<i class="fa fa-times text-danger"></i>
</button>

Also possible like this

<button type="submit" class="icon-search icon-large"></button>

With multiple submits, when you need the value of the submit selected, this can be done quite easily. Just create a hidden field in your form and change its value depending on what button is clicked. For example, in the form, say you have:

<input type="hidden" id="Clicked" name="Clicked" value="" />
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success ClickCheck" id="Create"> <i class="fa fa-file-pdf-o"> Create Bill</i></button>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success ClickCheck" id="Reset"> <i class="fa fa-times"> Reset</i></button>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success ClickCheck" id="StoreData"> <i class="fa fa-archive"> Save</i></button>

Using jQuery:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function()
    {
        $('.ClickCheck').click(function()
        {
            var ButtonID = $(this).attr('id');
            $('#Clicked').val(ButtonID);
        });
    });
</script>

Then you can retrieve the value of the button clicked in the "Clicked" post variable