Is it possible to make Font Awesome icons larger than 'fa-5x'?
HtmlCssTwitter BootstrapFont AwesomeHtml Problem Overview
I am using this HTML code:
<div class="col-lg-4">
<div class="panel">
<div class="panel-heading">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-3">
<i class="fa fa-cogs fa-5x"></i>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-9 text-right">
<div class="huge">
<?=db_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM orders WHERE customer = '" . $_SESSION['customer'] . "' AND EntryDate BETWEEN '" . date('d-M-y', strtotime('Monday this week')) . "' AND '" . date('d-M-y', strtotime('Friday this week')) . "'");?>
</div>
<div>orders this week</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<a href="view/orders">
<div class="panel-footer">
<span class="pull-left">View Details</span>
<span class="pull-right"><i class="fa fa-arrow-circle-right"></i></span>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
</div>
</a>
</div>
</div>
Which creates:
Is it possible to make the icon larger than fa-5x
? There is a lot of white space beneath it that I would like it to take up.
Html Solutions
Solution 1 - Html
Font awesome is just a font so you can use the font size attribute in your CSS to change the size of the icon.
So you can just add a class to the icon like this:
.big-icon {
font-size: 32px;
}
Solution 2 - Html
Alternatively you can edit the source and create your own incrementations
FontAwesome 5
https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/5.15.4/less/_larger.less
// Icon Sizes
// -------------------------
.larger(@factor) when (@factor > 0) {
.larger((@factor - 1));
.@{fa-css-prefix}-@{factor}x {
font-size: (@factor * 1em);
}
}
/* makes the font 33% larger relative to the icon container */
.@{fa-css-prefix}-lg {
font-size: (4em / 3);
line-height: (3em / 4);
vertical-align: -.0667em;
}
.@{fa-css-prefix}-xs {
font-size: .75em;
}
.@{fa-css-prefix}-sm {
font-size: .875em;
}
// Change the number below to create your own incrementations
// This currently creates classes .fa-1x - .fa-10x
.larger(10);
FontAwesome 4
https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/v4.7.0/less/larger.less
// Icon Sizes
// -------------------------
/* makes the font 33% larger relative to the icon container */
.@{fa-css-prefix}-lg {
font-size: (4em / 3);
line-height: (3em / 4);
vertical-align: -15%;
}
.@{fa-css-prefix}-2x { font-size: 2em; }
.@{fa-css-prefix}-3x { font-size: 3em; }
.@{fa-css-prefix}-4x { font-size: 4em; }
.@{fa-css-prefix}-5x { font-size: 5em; }
// Your custom sizes
.@{fa-css-prefix}-6x { font-size: 6em; }
.@{fa-css-prefix}-7x { font-size: 7em; }
.@{fa-css-prefix}-8x { font-size: 8em; }
Solution 3 - Html
You can redefine/overwrite the default font-awesome sizes and also add you own sizes
.fa-1x{
font-size:0.8em;
}
.fa-2x{
font-size:1em;
}
.fa-3x{
font-size:1.2em;
}
.fa-4x{
font-size:1.4em;
}
.fa-5x{
font-size:1.6em;
}
.fa-mycustomx{
font-size:3.2em;
}
Solution 4 - Html
-
Just add the font awesome class like this:
class="fa fa-plus-circle fa-3x"
(You can increase the size as per 5x, 7x, 9x..)
- You can also add custom CSS.
Solution 5 - Html
Easy — just use Font Awesome 5's default fa-[size]x
classes. You can scale icons up to 10x of the parent element's font-size
Read the docs about icon sizing.
Examples:
<span class="fas fa-info-circle fa-6x"></span>
<span class="fas fa-info-circle fa-7x"></span>
<span class="fas fa-info-circle fa-8x"></span>
<span class="fas fa-info-circle fa-9x"></span>
<span class="fas fa-info-circle fa-10x"></span>
Solution 6 - Html
Font awesome use SVG icons. So, you can resize it for your requirment.
just use CSS class for that,
.large-icon{
font-size:10em;
//or
font-size:200%;
//or
font-size:50px;
}
Solution 7 - Html
You can also define a scale transformation, with CSS like so:
.larger-icon {
transform:scale(2);
}