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How to stack/overlap more than 2 icons in Font Awesome?


How to stack/overlap more than 2 icons in Font Awesome ?

I have managed to stack/overlap 2 icons like this.

<span class="fa-stack fa-lg">
  <i class="fa fa-square-o fa-stack-2x"></i>
  <i class="fa fa-twitter fa-stack-1x"></i>
</span>

http://jsfiddle.net/npLWz/ ref: http://fontawesome.io/examples/#stacked

but when i try to stack/overlap 3 or more icons like this.

<span class="fa-stack fa-3x">
  <i class="fa fa-square-o fa-stack-3x"></i>
  <i class="fa fa-square-o fa-stack-2x"></i>
  <i class="fa fa-square-o fa-stack-1x"></i>
</span>

http://jsfiddle.net/npLWz/1/

Its getting messed up, any idea , how can i fix it ? and get 3 or more icons stacked/overlapped on each other.


Solution

  • I had a similar issue and solved using some custom CSS.

    .icon-stack {
      position: relative;
      display: inline-block;
      width: 2em;
      height: 2em;
      line-height: 2em;
      vertical-align: middle;
    }
    .icon-stack-1x,
    .icon-stack-2x,
    .icon-stack-3x {
      position: absolute;
      left: 0;
      width: 100%;
      text-align: center;
    }
    .icon-stack-1x {
      line-height: inherit;
    }
    .icon-stack-2x {
      font-size: 1.5em;
    }
    .icon-stack-3x {
      font-size: 2em;
    }
    

    Markup is therefore:

    <span class="icon-stack fa-3x">
       <i class="fa fa-{{whatever icon 3}} icon-stack-3x"></i>
       <i class="fa fa-{{whatever icon 2}} icon-stack-2x"></i>
       <i class="fa fa-{{whatever icon 1}} icon-stack-1x"></i>
    </span>
    

    I decided rather than override fa-stack I'd duplicate so I can still use the original CSS if required.

    You can obviously play around with the font size, line height etc to suit your own requirements.