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Start your free trialMicol Bellantoni
3,061 PointsPhone icon
My browser doesn't show the phone icon, but only a square
Here is my HTML:
<! DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="CSS/before.css">
</head>
<body>
<p class="phone">
555-867-5309
</p>
<a class="dload" href="examples.pdf" title="- PDF">
Download File
</a>
<div class="box">
Generated Shapes
</div>
</body>
</html>
And this is my css:
body{
padding: 1% 26.5%;
background-color: #e0eef5;
color: #333;
}
p, div{
margin: 55px;
font: 3em sans-serif;
}
a{
color: blue;
text-decoration: none;
font: 2.5em sans-serif;
}
.phone::before {
content: "\2706";
}
1 Answer
James Barnett
39,199 PointsIt could be your file encoding, or it could be your browser or even your font.
The easiet way to check is if you see the phone icon in this example codepen
Then it's most likely that you didn't save your file as "utf-8 in your text editor.
How do you that depends on what text editor you are using, I did some quick googling for your sublime text & notepad++
Micol Bellantoni
3,061 PointsMicol Bellantoni
3,061 PointsThank for your aswer!and Happy Holidays!