How to add google icon font to pseudo: before
I am using google material design icon fonts.
However, I want to overlay one fone on top of the other. The idea is to add a: before or: after element and create it something like this:
.material-icons:before
{
position:absolute;
content:"";
color:@accent-color;
font-size:2.4rem;
}
However, I'm not sure how to enable this 
:; to the content attribute - I've tried several ways and also used a CSS trick converter (which doesn't seem to work).
Any help was appreciated.
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In CSS, to indicate a character that you would otherwise escaped in HTML &
, such as; ✏
, you have to use escape \
eg content: "\9999"
.
.material-icons:before {
position: absolute;
content: "\E84E";
color: #882288;
font-size: 2.4rem;
}
To end an escaped character explicitly, use another \
, for examplecontent: "\E84E\ Hello World";
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You can achieve this by specifying the original Google Font css class which:
.material-icons {
font-family: 'Material Icons';
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
font-size: 24px; /* Preferred icon size */
display: inline-block;
width: 1em;
height: 1em;
line-height: 1;
text-transform: none;
letter-spacing: normal;
word-wrap: normal;
white-space: nowrap;
direction: ltr;
/* Support for all WebKit browsers. */
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
/* Support for Safari and Chrome. */
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
/* Support for Firefox. */
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
/* Support for IE. */
font-feature-settings: 'liga';
}
Using SASS, you can extend it and set the content with a pseudo-css element:
ul
&:before {
@extend .material-icons;
content: 'label';
}
}
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