Displaying Bootstrap Icon before text with CSS shows code instead icon

Question

I need to display the bootstrap Glyphicons before the element in which the .normal-text class has been used: I am trying with the following but it shows the code instead the icon.

.normal-text{
   border-left-width: 1px !important;
   font-size: 110% !important;
   color: #100cce;
   font-family: 'Book Antiqua';
}
.normal-text::after{
   content: '<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-pencil"></span>'
}
    

<blockquote class="normal-text"> Some Text </blockquote>

Help required in this please.

Answer 1

Use unicode instead. content:'' will treat code block as a text.

.normal-text{
   border-left-width: 1px !important;
   font-size: 110% !important;
   color: #100cce;
   font-family: 'Book Antiqua';
}
.normal-text::after{
   content: "\270f";
   font-family: 'Glyphicons Halflings';
}

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<blockquote class="normal-text"> Some Text </blockquote>

Answer 2

You can not display icon like that. You should used icon unicode with it's font family.

.normal-text{
   border-left-width: 1px !important;
   font-size: 110% !important;
   color: #100cce;
   font-family: 'Book Antiqua';
}
.normal-text::after{
   content: "\270f";
   font-family: 'Glyphicons Halflings';
}

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<blockquote class="normal-text"> Some Text </blockquote>

Answer 3

You can't include span tag into CSS content property.

The content CSS property is used with the ::before and ::after pseudo-elements to generate content in an element.

.normal-text{
border-left-width: 1px !important;
font-size: 110% !important;
color: #100cce;
font-family: 'Book Antiqua';
}
.normal-text::after{
 content: ' \00270e '
}

<blockquote class="normal-text"> Some Text </blockquote>

Answer 4

i think it will help you. make html as given below and no need to after css

<blockquote class="normal-text"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-pencil"></span> Some Text </blockquote>

check this link : https://jsfiddle.net/vt3d7pLv/

Answer 5

I think it will help you.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Glyphicons Halflings';
  src: url('../fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot');
  src: url('../fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),            url('../fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff') format('woff'), 
       url('../fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf') format('truetype'),
       url('../fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.svg#glyphicons-halflingsregular') format('svg');
}

.glyphicon:before {
  content: "\e008";
  padding-right:10px;
  font-size:24px;
  float:left;
}
.glyphicon > p {
  float:left;
  font-size:24px;
}

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<span class="glyphicon"><p>User</p></span>

Answer 6

In case you are using Bootstrap 5 it should be like this:

.normal-text::after {
  content: '\F12A';
  font-family: "bootstrap-icons";
}

Use the CSS code in the icon detail page as the content.