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Warren_Brill
Boss
8 years ago

Styling Font-Awesome Icons

We need to change the background colors on some of the font-awesome icons. Where in the SASS files can this be done? The vendor.scss file names the icons but nowhere in the other ones am I able to fi...
  • SuzieH's avatar
    SuzieH
    8 years ago

    Hi Warren_Brill,

    To change the color of the triangle or the icon itself, it's simply Sass. I was able to change the color of the triangle from green to blue with this in _variables.scss.

     

    .lia-list-row-thread-solved .triangletop:before {
  border-top-color: #0000ff;
}

     You'll need to check out the styles for every message grid where you want to do this, though. For example, this is the class I had to change for the grid used by the Topics I've Participated In component (component ID "messages-feed") in the View Profile page.

     

    .lia-message-view-display.lia-list-row-thread-solved:before {  
  border-top-color: #0000ff;
}

    We have the Font Awesome icons used with the Responsive skin here. And we have instructions for overriding the icons and creating new icons in the Responsive Developer Guide, but you found a hole that needs to be addressed with regard to documentation. I can work to improve on that.

Warren_Brill's avatar
Warren_Brill
Boss

Thanks to both of you for the quick replies. I'd looked at what felt like dozens of SASS files but sometimes that inquiry can be akin to a needle in a haystack, so this is very useful.

 

SuzieH's avatar
SuzieH
Khoros Alumni (Retired)
8 years ago

It's tough, I know. I've ask Product Management and Engineering for a way to have full search through the Sass files, or at least a way to download them and search through them in an editor like Atom or Sublime Text. We have an enhancement requested, but other things have taken priority. 

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    Warren_Brill
    Boss
    8 years ago

    Again, many thanks. I'm going to mark an Accepted Solution, though I probably won't have time to implement today.