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CSS

Posted by Micol Bellantoni
Micol Bellantoni
3,061 Points

Phone 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
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

It 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
Micol Bellantoni
3,061 Points

Thank for your aswer!and Happy Holidays!