How to create icon buttons with CSS?

CSS Web Development Front End Technology

To create Icon buttons with CSS, you need to set the icons on a web page. Here, we will consider the Font Awesome icon. To set such icons on a button, set the CDN for the icon under the <button> element.

Set the CDN for the icons

To add the icons on our web page, we have used the Font Awesome Icons. Include it on a web page using the <link> element −

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">

Create the icon buttons

Under the <button> element itself, set the <i>. The font-awesome icons are set in <i> −

<button><i class="fa fa-home"></i>Home</button>
<button><i class="fa fa-phone-square" aria-hidden="true"></i>Call Us</button>
<button><i class="fa fa-map-marker" aria-hidden="true"></i>Visit Us</button>
<button><i class="fa fa-cog" aria-hidden="true"></i>Settings</button>
<button><i class="fa fa-user-o" aria-hidden="true"></i>Login</button>

Style the buttons

The button is set with the cursor property and value pointer to make it look like a clickable button −

button {
   font-family: "Lucida Sans", "Lucida Sans Regular", "Lucida Grande",
   "Lucida Sans Unicode", Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;
   background-color: rgb(30, 173, 255);
   border: none;
   color: white;
   padding: 12px 16px;
   font-size: 32px;
   cursor: pointer;
}

Style the <i>

The icons are set in <i>. Therefore, to align it properly with the text, the padding using the padding property −

i {
   padding: 15px;
   color: rgb(33, 0, 109);
}

Example

The following is the code to create icon buttons with CSS −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" />
   <style>
      button {
         font-family: "Lucida Sans", "Lucida Sans Regular", "Lucida Grande",
         "Lucida Sans Unicode", Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;
         background-color: rgb(30, 173, 255);
         border: none;
         color: white;
         padding: 12px 16px;
         font-size: 32px;
         cursor: pointer;
      }
      i {
         padding: 15px;
         color: rgb(33, 0, 109);
      }
      button:hover {
         background-color: rgb(81, 44, 148);
      }
      button:hover i {
         color: white;
      }
   </style>
</head>
<body>
   <h1 style="font-size: 60px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Icon Buttons Example</h1>
   <button><i class="fa fa-home"></i>Home</button>
   <button> <i class="fa fa-phone-square" aria-hidden="true"></i>Call Us </button>
   <button><i class="fa fa-map-marker" aria-hidden="true"></i>Visit Us</button>
   <button><i class="fa fa-cog" aria-hidden="true"></i>Settings</button>
   <button><i class="fa fa-user-o" aria-hidden="true"></i>Login</button>
</body>
</html>

AmitDiwan

Updated on: 14-Dec-2023

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