Make Font Awesome Icons in a Circle

Make Font Awesome icons in a circle?

i.fa {
  display: inline-block;
  border-radius: 60px;
  box-shadow: 0 0 2px #888;
  padding: 0.5em 0.6em;

}

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<i class="fa fa-wrench"></i>

Font Awesome 5 - how to put an icon inside a circle?

Font Awesome already allow this, you don't need to do it yourself:

.custom .fa-circle:before {
  border-radius: 50%;
  background: linear-gradient(red, blue);
  color: transparent;
}

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.12.0/css/all.css">

<span class="fa-stack fa-2x">
    <i class="far fa-circle fa-stack-2x"></i>
    <i class="fab fa-python fa-stack-1x"></i>
</span>
<span class="fa-stack fa-2x">
    <i class="fas fa-circle fa-stack-2x" style="color:lightblue"></i>
    <i class="fab fa-python fa-stack-1x "></i>
</span>
<span class="fa-stack fa-2x">
    <i class="fas fa-circle fa-stack-2x" style="color:blue"></i>
    <i class="fab fa-facebook-f fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i>
</span>
<span class="fa-stack fa-2x">
    <i class="fas fa-circle fa-stack-2x" ></i>
    <i class="fab fa-twitter fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i>
</span>

<span class="fa-stack fa-2x custom">
    <i class="fas fa-circle fa-stack-2x" ></i>
    <i class="fab fa-twitter fa-stack-1x fa-inverse"></i>
</span>

Make Font Awesome icons in a circle border with right 1:1 ratio

You need to set width, height, line height, & text-align to center the icon.
icon will need also vertical-align reset to middle.

Avoid padding in pixels, but use width/height/line-height in em or rem. You can then change font-size and keep the ratio without updating other values.

a /* or selector a .fa */
  {  
  font-size:3em;
  border-radius: 50%;
  border: solid white;
  color: white;
  line-height: 2em;
  width: 2em;
  height: 2em;
  text-align: center;
  display: inline-block;
    transition:0.5s;
}
/* demo purpose */
a:hover {font-size:2em}
.fa {
/* optionnal vertical-align: middle;*/
}
body {
  background: #333
}

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<a href="#"><i class="fa fa-facebook"></i></a>
<a href="#"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i></a>
<a href="#"> <i class="fa fa-google"></i>
</a>

FontAwesome icon with a circle

Adding width: 1em; and text-align: center; to i.fa should work.

circle outline for fontAwesome icons in react native

The JSFiddle example that you posted creates the circle using a CSS border with border-radius to make it circular. We can do pretty much the same thing in react-native, though borderRadius in react-native can only be a fixed number and not a percent (edit: this limitation is specific to typescript since the borderRadius property has type number. Percentage strings do work at runtime).

You can tweak this code however you want, but this will get the job done. You can use IconFA and CircleBorder as two separate nested components but I also made a component IconInCircle which combines the two.

const IconInCircle = ({ circleSize, borderWidth = 2, borderColor = 'black', ...props}) => (
  <CircleBorder
    size={circleSize}
    borderWidth={borderWidth}
    borderColor={borderColor}
  >
    <IconFA {...props} />
  </CircleBorder>
);

const CircleBorder = ({ size, borderWidth, borderColor, children }) => (
  <View
    style={{
      width: size,
      height: size,
      borderRadius: 0.5 * size,
      display: 'flex',
      justifyContent: 'center',
      alignItems: 'center',
      borderColor,
      borderWidth,
    }}>
    {children}
  </View>
);

The IconInCircle component takes three props specific to the border: circleSize, borderWidth, and borderColor. All other props are passed through into the IconFA child component.

Basically what we are doing is placing the icon inside of a fixed-size View with a circular border and centered contents.

Now we can use it like so:

      <IconInCircle
        name="plus"
        size={30}
        color="black"
        style={styles.thumbnail}
        borderWidth={1}
        circleSize={50}
      />

Expo Link

Does Google Chrome have a problem with Font-Awesome Icons. Does it not support it?

I'm not an expert but maybe look up the icons again on Font Awesome and check if they maybe changed the class names and if so update it, same goes for the CDN link