fa_i: Generate a Font Awesome <i> tag

In fontawesome: Easily Work with 'Font Awesome' Icons

Generate a Font Awesome ⁠<i>⁠ tag

Description

The fa_i() function creates a Font Awesome ⁠<i>⁠ tag and not an SVG as with fa(). The primary use case for fa_i() is for legacy Shiny applications that use the shiny::icon() function. This function is called within a shiny::icon() call and all HTML dependencies to support icon generation are hosted in the fontawesome package.

Usage

fa_i(
  name,
  class = NULL,
  ...,
  prefer_type = c("regular", "solid"),
  html_dependency = fa_html_dependency()
)

Arguments

name	The name of the Font Awesome icon. This could be as a short name (e.g., "npm", "drum", etc.), or, a full name (e.g., "fab fa-npm", "fas fa-drum", etc.). The names should correspond to current Font Awesome names. A list of short and full names can be accessed through the fa_metadata() function with fa_metadata()$icon_names and fa_metadata()$icon_names_full. If supplying a known alias to a short icon name (e.g., "vcard", which is now "address-card"), it will be internally translated to the current icon name before returning the icon tag.
class	Additional classes to customize the style of the icon.
...	Arguments passed to the ⁠<i>⁠ tag of htmltools::tags.
prefer_type	Chooses the type of icon returned if: (1) providing a short name, and (2) that icon has both solid and regular types. For example, using name = "address-book" will result in two types of icons for an Address Book. By default, this preference is set to "regular" and the other option is "solid".
html_dependency	Provides an opportunity to use a custom html_dependency object (created via a call to htmltools::htmlDependency()) instead of one supplied by the function (which uses Font Awesome's free assets and are bundled in the package). A custom html_dependency object is useful when you have paid icons from Font Awesome or would otherwise like to customize exactly which icon assets are used (e.g., woff, woff2, eot, etc.). By default, this is NULL where the function internally generates an html_dependency.

Value

An icon element.

Examples

if (interactive()) {

# Create a Font Awesome icon object
fa_i(name = "r-project")

}

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