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== Font Awesome ==
So you want a rocket on your page to show how awesome your stuff is. Something like this: http://fontawesome.io/icon/rocket/
<nowiki><i class="fa fa-rocket fa-6" aria-hidden="true"></i></nowiki>
Is how to show a '''Font Awesome''' icon. Which looks like this: <i class="fa fa-pull-left fa-rocket" aria-hidden="true"></i>
=== Problems ===
But there is a dependency and some bugs that have to be tracked down with regard to using it on a wiki site.
# Font Awesome only seems to work if there is an actual image on the page. For example, this is an edit icon from a normal svg file. [[Image:Edit icon.svg|30px]]. Remove that and your Font Awesome icon will disappear. Note: the image file doesn't even have to exist, it's just that the image processing code is not called unless there is a <nowiki>[[File:]]</nowiki> tag in the wikitext.
# And FA doesn't work if I close the tag properly.
# The '''fa''' element is duplicated throughout the rest of the page since it wasn't closed.
=== Getting it ===
# Sign up for a unique embed code.
# Add the script source to your wiki by editing the [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] file where you add a call to 'load' the external script <code><nowiki>mw.loader.load('//use.fontawesome.com/14c71d3de0.js');</nowiki></code>
# Insert the <code><nowiki><i></nowiki></code> tags where ever you want. Note that there are various sizes pre-defined as fa-1 (smallest) to fa-6 (largest)
# Check http://fontawesome.io/examples/
# https://cdn.fontawesome.com/help#qa-icons-code
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/font-awesome
# https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
So you want a rocket on your page to show how awesome your stuff is. Something like this: http://fontawesome.io/icon/rocket/
<nowiki><i class="fa fa-rocket fa-6" aria-hidden="true"></i></nowiki>
Is how to show a '''Font Awesome''' icon. Which looks like this: <i class="fa fa-pull-left fa-rocket" aria-hidden="true"></i>
=== Problems ===
But there is a dependency and some bugs that have to be tracked down with regard to using it on a wiki site.
# Font Awesome only seems to work if there is an actual image on the page. For example, this is an edit icon from a normal svg file. [[Image:Edit icon.svg|30px]]. Remove that and your Font Awesome icon will disappear. Note: the image file doesn't even have to exist, it's just that the image processing code is not called unless there is a <nowiki>[[File:]]</nowiki> tag in the wikitext.
# And FA doesn't work if I close the tag properly.
# The '''fa''' element is duplicated throughout the rest of the page since it wasn't closed.
=== Getting it ===
# Sign up for a unique embed code.
# Add the script source to your wiki by editing the [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] file where you add a call to 'load' the external script <code><nowiki>mw.loader.load('//use.fontawesome.com/14c71d3de0.js');</nowiki></code>
# Insert the <code><nowiki><i></nowiki></code> tags where ever you want. Note that there are various sizes pre-defined as fa-1 (smallest) to fa-6 (largest)
# Check http://fontawesome.io/examples/
# https://cdn.fontawesome.com/help#qa-icons-code
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/font-awesome
# https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome