CSS Snippet for Styling .icon-pending with Font Awesome Icon

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Question:

.icon-pending::before { font-family: 'Font Awesome 5 Pro'; font-size: 22px !important; color: $color-orange-saffron; content: '\f017'; }

Answer:

The CSS snippet you provided is used to style an element with the class .icon-pending by adding a pseudo-element ::before to it. Here's a breakdown of what each part does:

  1. .icon-pending::before: This targets the ::before pseudo-element of any element with the class icon-pending.

  2. font-family: 'Font Awesome 5 Pro';: This sets the font family of the pseudo-element to 'Font Awesome 5 Pro', which is a popular icon font library.

  3. font-size: 22px !important;: This sets the font size of the pseudo-element to 22 pixels. The !important flag ensures that this style takes precedence over any other conflicting font-size styles.

  4. color: $color-orange-saffron;: This sets the color of the pseudo-element. The $color-orange-saffron suggests that a CSS preprocessor like Sass is being used, where $color-orange-saffron is a variable that holds a specific color value.

  5. content: '\f017';: This sets the content of the ::before pseudo-element to the Unicode character \f017, which corresponds to a specific icon in the Font Awesome 5 Pro library. In this case, \f017 is the Unicode for the "clock" icon.

Example Usage in HTML

Here's how you might use this CSS class in an HTML document:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>Icon Pending Example</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/font-awesome/css/all.min.css">
  <style>
    .icon-pending::before {
      font-family: 'Font Awesome 5 Pro';
      font-size: 22px !important;
      color: #FFA500; /* Example color if $color-orange-saffron is #FFA500 */
      content: '\f017';
    }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <div class="icon-pending"></div>
</body>
</html>

Notes

  • Ensure that you have included the Font Awesome 5 Pro CSS file in your project for the icons to display correctly.
  • Replace #FFA500 with the actual value of $color-orange-saffron if you are not using a preprocessor like Sass.
  • The ::before pseudo-element will insert the icon before the content of the .icon-pending element. If the element has no content, it will just display the icon.