Talk:FontAwesome

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/

If your wiki supports Font Awesome, then it's as easy as <i class="fa fa-pull-left fa-5x fa-rocket" aria-hidden="true"></i>

That is how to show a Font Awesome icon, pulled to the left, 5x bigger than normal, and explicitly telling screen readers to ignore the item as decorative.

Bootstrap

If your wiki uses a bootstrap compatible theme like Foreground (FontAwesome 4.3) or Chameleon, then you can also mix-in layouts like this (won't work with Vector):

Bootstrap Example

     One of three columns

     Two of three columns

     Three of three columns

     Coffee

     I love coffee!!!

     cloud

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     Blocks

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Websites that are simple to use

Collaboration / Data / Knowledge / Publishing / Docs systems

Web Applications

Development Operations

How To

The best way I've found is to modify MediaWiki:Common.js

/*To add script tags to the page we use load instead of the deprecated importScriptURI */
/* You'll need to visit the fontawesome site to get a KEY to use */
mw.loader.load('//use.fontawesome.com/aldfjsdlkfjdlskf0.js');

Note that the deprecated $wgUseTidy can interfere with FontAwesome by removing the empty tags.

Recipe

1. Sign up for a unique embed code at the fontawesome website.
2. Add the script source to your wiki by editing the MediaWiki:Common.js file where you add a call to 'load' the external script
3. Insert the <i> tags where ever you want. Note that there are various sizes pre-defined as fa-1 (smallest) to fa-6 (largest)

More

1. Check http://fontawesome.io/examples/
2. http://fontawesome.io/icons/ The icons (Note there is a new kickstarter for a Pro product https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/232193852/font-awesome-5)
3. https://cdn.fontawesome.com/help#qa-icons-code
4. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/font-awesome
5. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome

Disclaimer

At the time of writing, this site doesn't support FontAwesome icons, nor Bootstrap layouts. But now that the sample code is in place, we'll try the recipe.