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CSS CSS Foundations Advanced Selectors Pseudo-Elements: ::before and ::after

Posted by Robert Kwiat
Robert Kwiat
5,349 Points

How did he add the phone icon?

He added the phone icon by adding the text, "\2706." How is this possible? Do browsers just recognize this text and add a phone icon wherever it sees it?

1 Answer

John Treacy
John Treacy
10,246 Points
John Treacy
John Treacy
10,246 Points

Its the unicode character for that glyph. UTF 8 is the char set and it can represent every unicode character. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters#Dingbats