Bordered & Pulled Icons

Occasionally you might want to wrap text around an icon or give it some visual distinction with a border.

Before You Get Started

Before we start, make sure you’re:

• Set up with Font Awesome in your project.
• Familiar with the basics of adding Font Awesome icons.

Use fa-border and fa-pull-right or fa-pull-left for easy pull quotes or article icons.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms further… And one fine morning — So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

<i class="fa-solid fa-quote-left fa-2x fa-pull-left"></i>
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year
recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will
run faster, stretch our arms further... And one fine morning — So we beat on,
boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Use fa-border in combination with fa-pull-right style for more visual separation.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms further… And one fine morning — So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

<i class="fa-solid fa-arrow-right fa-2x fa-pull-right fa-border"></i>
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year
recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will
run faster, stretch our arms further... And one fine morning — So we beat on,
boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Bordered and Pulled Classes

Class	Details
fa-border	Creates a border with border-radius and padding applied around an icons
fa-pull-left	Pulls an icon by floating it left and applying a margin-right
fa-pull-right	Pulls an icon by floating it right and applying a margin-left

Customization

We’ve added CSS custom properties to make customizing easier and more efficient. Define your own values for the following properties to override and customize Font Awesome’s defaults.

CSS Custom Property	Details	Accepted Values
--fa-border-color	Set border color	Any valid CSS border-color value
--fa-border-padding	Set padding around icon	Any valid CSS padding value
--fa-border-radius	Set border radius	Any valid CSS border-radius value
--fa-border-style	Set border style	Any valid CSS border-style value
--fa-border-width	Set border width	Any valid CSS border-width value
--fa-pull-margin	Set margin around icon	Any valid CSS margin value

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms further… And one fine morning — So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

<i class="fa-solid fa-quote-left fa-2x fa-pull-left" style="--fa-pull-margin: 4em;"></i>
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year
recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will
run faster, stretch our arms further... And one fine morning — So we beat on,
boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms further… And one fine morning — So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

<i class="fa-solid fa-arrow-right fa-2x fa-pull-right fa-border" style="--fa-border-color: inherit; --fa-border-padding: 0.5em; --fa-border-radius: 100%; --fa-border-style: dotted; --fa-border-width: 0.5em;"></i>
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year
recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will
run faster, stretch our arms further... And one fine morning — So we beat on,
boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.