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Font Awesome offers a great way to add HTML icons to your Joomla site. With this plugin, you can easily add the Font Awesome source to your site. But there's more: Instead of typing in the required fa code - which can cost you a lot of time, and which is not visible in the WYSIWYG environment of your backend - you can use Font Awesome tags to get your icons in there even quicker.
First of all, the plugin simply loads the FontAwesome library remotely. Second, any FontAwesome tag in your content will be translated into an icon:
{fa fa-camera-retro fa-2x}
{fa fa-spinner fa-spin}
{fa fa-circle-o-notch fa-spin}
The arguments after {fa ...} can include the fa- prefix, or the prefix can be skipped.
{(fa fa-book}
{(fa book}
{fa fa-book}
Stacking is done by adding brackets:
{fa fa-stack fa-lg [fa-square-o fa-stack-2x][fa-twitter fa-stack-1x]}
To make it easier to use the same sequence multiple times, you can add the following to the plugins alias box:
stuff="fa-stack fa-lg [fa-square-o fa-stack-2x][fa-twitter fa-stack-1x]"
Or shorter:
stuff="stack lg [square-o stack-2x][twitter stack-1x]"
And now the following will do as well:
{fa stuff}