FontAwesome icons not showing. Why?

Under your reference, you have this:

<link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.1.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

Specifically, the href= part.

However, under your full html is this:

<link src="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.1.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

Have you tried replacing src= with href= in your full html to become this?

<link href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.1.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

Works for me: http://codepen.io/TheNathanG/pen/xbyFg


For seekers of missing font-awesome icons, I have collected a few ideas:

  • Assure you use a correct link to the CDN, such as:

    <link 
  href="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.css" 
  rel="stylesheet"  type='text/css'>

  • If your page uses HTTPS, do you link to the font-awesome CSS using HTTPS (replace http:// with https:// in the link above).

  • Double check that you don't have AdBlock Plus or uBlock enabled. They might be blocking some of the icons.

  • Reset your browsers cache. (On Chrome do a looong click on the reload button and select Hard Cache Reset)

  • Assure that the <span> or <i> element you use, uses the FontAwesome font family. For example, it must not just

    <i class="fa-pencil" title="Edit"></i>

    but

    <i class="fa fa-pencil" title="Edit"></i>

    It won't work if you have something as the following in your CSS:

    * {
  font-family: 'Josefin Sans', sans-serif !important;   
}

  • If you are using IE8, are you using a HTML5 Shim?

  • If this doesn't work, there are further Troubleshooting Ideas on the Font Awesome Wiki.


At first I couldn't get this to work with Font Awesome 5:

<i class="fa fa-sort-down"></i>

That's why I came here, being unfamiliar with font awesome. So when I looked further I noticed that my issue was merely an issue with the version.

w3schools helped me out in this case.

New in Font Awesome 5 is the fas prefix, Font Awesome 4 uses fa.

The s in fas stands for solid, and some icons also have a regular mode, specified by using the prefix far.

I already noticed the different files in the FontAwesome css folder, like:

  • all.min.css
  • brands.min.css
  • fontawesome.min.css
  • regular.min.css
  • solid.min.css

And that's when I realized my mistake. All I had to do was include the appropriate css to the html:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="~/lib/Font-Awesome/css/fontawesome.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="~/lib/Font-Awesome/css/regular.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="~/lib/Font-Awesome/css/solid.min.css">

And then reference the correct item:

<i class="fas fa-sort-down"></i>

This setup works for me. Though not all items have equivalents in each type. This will not work:

<i class="far fa-sort-down"></i>

As a side note, when you don't want to reference all seperate files then this will suffice:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="~/lib/Font-Awesome/css/fontawesome.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="~/lib/Font-Awesome/css/all.min.css">

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