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Font Awesome has a ton of great styling tools that work hand-in-hand with our icons to make your project look its best.
The entire Font Awesome styling toolkit is available when using Vue, but the syntax is different from our general web-use documentation. Below you'll find the syntax for adding styling with Vue, with a link to the general documentation that has descriptions and examples for each styling tool.
Font Awesome supports t-shirt size scale from xs, sm, lg, and 1x to 10x.
<!-- T-shirt sizes -->
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'coffee']" size="xs" />
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'coffee']" size="lg" />
<!-- X-factor sizing -->
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'coffee']" size="7x" />
Remember, you can always control icon size directly with the CSS font-size attribute. The font-awesome-icon's size prop determines icon size relative to the current context's font-size.
Setting icons to use a fixed-width helps when you're trying to align icons in a vertical column.
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'coffee']" fixed-width />
There's no Vue-specific syntax for using icons in a list, so you can use fa-ul and fa-li to replace default bullets in unordered lists just like usual.
Rotate on quarter turns and flip horizontally, vertically, or both. Or try power transforms for more granularity.
<!-- Rotate -->
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'coffee']" rotation="90" />
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'coffee']" rotation="180" />
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'coffee']" rotation="270" />
<!-- Mirror -->
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'coffee']" flip="horizontal" />
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'coffee']" flip="vertical" />
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'coffee']" flip="both" />
You can use the animate utilities as a way to indicate loading or processing, especially when paired with icons like spinner or sync. The spin utility smoothly spins the icon clockwise, and the pulse utility spins clockwise in eight steps.
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'cog']" spin />
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'spinner']" pulse />
Add a border around an icon with this utility.
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'coffee']" border />
Wrap text around an icon with this utility.
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'coffee']" pull="left" />
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'coffee']" pull="right" />
Power Transforms are just that - powerful! You can scale, position, rotate, and flip all with this one styling tool.
grow-# and shrink-# with any arbitrary value, including decimals.up-#, down-#, left-#, and right-# with any arbitrary value, including decimals.flip-v, flip-h, or rotate-# with any arbitrary value.<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'coffee']" :transform="{ rotate: 42 }" />
Grab the Mask utility when you want to layer two icons but have the inner icon cut out from the icon below so the parent element's background shows through.
<!-- using transform with mask will allow you to scale, shrink, grow, etc. the coffee icon within the circle icon -->
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'coffee']" transform="shrink-7" :mask="['fas', 'circle']" />
For Duotone icons, you can swap the opacity on the layers:
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fad', 'coffee-pot']" swap-opacity />
We've also built a lot of utility into CSS custom properties for Duotone icons.
If you'd like to layer icons, add a text layer over an icon, or add a counter to an icon, you'll need to add the layering components. Edit your main.js to look like this:
// Using Vue 2.x
import Vue from 'vue'
import { FontAwesomeIcon, FontAwesomeLayers, FontAwesomeLayersText } from '@fortawesome/vue-fontawesome'
Vue.component('font-awesome-icon', FontAwesomeIcon)
Vue.component('font-awesome-layers', FontAwesomeLayers)
Vue.component('font-awesome-layers-text', FontAwesomeLayersText)
// Using Vue 3.x
import { createApp } from 'vue'
import App from './App.vue'
import { FontAwesomeIcon, FontAwesomeLayers, FontAwesomeLayersText } from '@fortawesome/vue-fontawesome'
createApp(App)
.component('font-awesome-icon', FontAwesomeIcon)
.component('font-awesome-layers', FontAwesomeLayers)
.component('font-awesome-layer-text', FontAwesomeLayersText)
.mount('#app')
Then you can use the utilities in those components to layer icons, text, or add counters. You can also invert an icon to get a cut-out effect.
Layer one or more icons to create a new icon. Include fixed-width to have the layers align.
<font-awesome-layers class="fa-lg">
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'circle']" />
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'check']" transform="shrink-6" :style="{ color: 'white' }" />
</font-awesome-layers>
Add text on top of an icon. Use power transforms to control how the text appears.
<font-awesome-layers full-width class="fa-4x">
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'badge']"/>
<font-awesome-layers-text class="gray8" transform="down-2 shrink-8" value="New!" />
</font-awesome-layers>
Add a counter to the corner of an icon. Postion can be bottom-left, bottom-right, top-left and the default top-right.
<font-awesome-layers full-width class="fa-4x">
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'envelope']"/>
<font-awesome-layers-text counter value="1" position="top-right" />
</font-awesome-layers>
This can be useful when layering icons, or on its own.
<font-awesome-icon :icon="['fas', 'coffee']" inverse />