Font Awesome Text-Decoration and Link Underline
If I were to describe Font Awesome in a word, I think it would be...awesome. The icon font library is massively helpful in using quality vector glyphs instead of separate images. I tend to use a lot of icons within links, as they help users to more quickly visually identify navigation. One side effect of using icons within links is that the icons themselves now use the text-decoration of the link. I really don't want icons underlined like the link -- it looks tacky. Here's how I remove them!
The CSS
Using the root icon selector and :before, we can adjust the icon's display and text-decoration:
i[class^="icon-"]:before {
display: inline-block;
text-decoration: none;
}
Needing this snippet to avoid text-decoration is a recent change as Font Awesome originally used the above styles. Keep this CSS code handy if you use Font Awesome!
![CSS 3D Folding Animation]()
Google Plus provides loads of inspiration for front-end developers, especially when it comes to the CSS and JavaScript wonders they create. Last year I duplicated their incredible PhotoStack effect with both MooTools and pure CSS; this time I'm going to duplicate...
![Chris Coyier’s Favorite CodePen Demos]()
David asked me if I'd be up for a guest post picking out some of my favorite Pens from CodePen. A daunting task! There are so many! I managed to pick a few though that have blown me away over the past few months. If you...
![Create an Animated Sliding Button Using MooTools]()
Buttons (or links) are usually the elements on our sites that we want to draw a lot of attention to. Unfortunately many times they end up looking the most boring. You don't have to let that happen though! I recently found a...
![jQuery Countdown Plugin]()
You've probably been to sites like RapidShare and MegaUpload that allow you to download files but make you wait a specified number of seconds before giving you the download link. I've created a similar script but my script allows you to animate the CSS font-size...
Thanks for the snippet, I had the same issue and got to the same solution but was concerned about its performance.
Anything you can say on this matter?
I can’t imagine this causing performance issues…
Performance issues?
p { color: #fff; } – my eight-core cpu is going full-load when renders this!
WHAT A TWIST!
Thanks for the tip. Here’s another similar service that’s amazing as well: http://icomoon.io/
Does this still fix IE10? It’s broken for me. :(
Stephen you might need to use
i[class^="fa"]:before {Ah thanks! That one was driving me nuts. Didn’t think to try
inline-block– i’ll get some more sleep tonight thanks to you :)Thanks, this trick worked for me even in 2020 with Font Awesome 5.