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CSS

Posted by Drew Butcher
Drew Butcher
33,160 Points

Font Awesome Which is Better and Faster?

I have included Font Awesome in a project by downloading the files and included the style tag in my html.... It appears if I want to use an icon I can either use the classname or the unicode.... for example suppose I wanted the ambulance icon then I could use either

<i class="fa fa-ambulance"></i>

or

<i class="fa">&#xf0f9;</i>

Which is better and faster?

I feel like the first is much more readable but is the unicode faster?

1 Answer

Ryan Frizzell
Ryan Frizzell
14,527 Points
Ryan Frizzell
Ryan Frizzell
14,527 Points

Drew Butcher I'm not sure about the performance benefits of either version, but typically if you're editing the html file you would use the first version, and if you're adding the icon using via the css 'content' attribute, you would use the unicode version.