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Dr.YSG
Dr.YSG

Reputation: 7591

how to scale (large) font-awesome icons from the react-icons package

I am using the marvelouse react-icons package (http://gorangajic.github.io/react-icons/fa.html), specifically the font awesome package.

If this was not react, then I would just add an attribute to the tag, such as:

<i class="fa fa-camera-retro fa-5x"></i>

However, if I add the fa-5x to the FaFolderOpen tag, it does not do anything. As you can see, I am using react-bootstrap, and placing the icon a button (should it be a block)?

I have to believe this has been asked before, but I did not find it via search.

Here is what it looks like, and I want it larger:

enter image description here

const React = require('react')
import { Form, FormControl, FormGroup, ControlLabel, Col, Button, Tooltip, OverlayTrigger } from 'react-bootstrap'
import FaFolderOpen from 'react-icons/lib/fa/folder-open'
import FaFileCodeO from 'react-icons/lib/fa/file-code-o'
import FaFolderOpen from 'react-icons/lib/fa/folder-open'
import FaFileCodeO from 'react-icons/lib/fa/file-code-o'

<Button type="button" bsStyle="success" block onClick={(e) => folderChooser(e)}>
     <FaFolderOpen />
</Button>

Upvotes: 57

Views: 226819

Answers (9)

Shadman Fatin
Shadman Fatin

Reputation: 170

Just do like this for increasing sizes of fontawesome icons in ReactJs

<FontAwesomeIcon icon={faToggleOn} size='xl' />

Upvotes: 0

Telmo Dias
Telmo Dias

Reputation: 4168

Just to complement, because I was able to do it differently, you can also use the CSS property font-size or fontSize in JSON notation.

Using CSS in external file :

/* style.css */
.bigIcon {
   font-size: 25px;
}

// index.jsx
import { FiPackage } from 'react-icons/fi';
import './style.css';
(...)
<FiPackage className="bigIcon" />

or (JSON syntax)

// index.jsx
import { FiPackage } from 'react-icons/fi';
(...)
<FiPackage style={{fontSize:'25px'}} />

Upvotes: 1

Olami Olasunkanmi
Olami Olasunkanmi

Reputation: 261

React-Icons has a prop called size that can be used to set to any size you want. after importing the react-icon from the react-icon library, you can easily do something like this.

<FaUsers size={'4rem'} />

Upvotes: 2

Neal Ehardt
Neal Ehardt

Reputation: 10954

I have a designer giving me pixel sizes that don't always correspond to one of FontAwesome's size options. So I'm setting the CSS height.

<FontAwesomeIcon icon={faBars} style={{ height: "20px" }} />

Upvotes: 0

JPDevM
JPDevM

Reputation: 121

The default size is 1em. You can change it like this:

import { FcSurvey } from 'react-icons/fc';
<FcSurvey size={'2em'} />

Upvotes: 2

John Ruddell
John Ruddell

Reputation: 25842

if you want a 5x icon size you need to pass it to the react class as size

// Font awesome pixel sizes relative to the multiplier. 
// 1x - 14px
// 2x - 28px
// 3x - 42px
// 4x - 56px
// 5x - 70px

<FaFolderOpen size={70} />

if you notice it jumps by 14 each time

from the github readme it shows everything is overridden inline. its rendering a svg so you cant use 5x you have to use a pixel size

Edit

Coming back to this a few years later, with newer versions of FontAwesome/ReactIcons the recommended way to handle different sizings is with their icon provider that utilizes the React Context API. This requires React v16.3+

import { IconContext } from "react-icons";

<IconContext.Provider value={{ className: "shared-class", size: 70 }}>
  <>
    <FaFolder />
    <FaBeer />
  </>
</IconContext.Provider>

Upvotes: 140

Roman
Roman

Reputation: 21765

An approach that is not very explicitly comes from docs (close to @Raimo Haikari):

App.jsx

import {IconContext} from "react-icons";
import { FaBeer } from 'react-icons/fa';
import './App.css'

class App extends component {

return (
  <div>
    <IconContext.Provider value={{ className="myReact-icons"}}>
      <FaBeer />
    </IconContext.Provider>
  </div>);  
}

App.css

.myreact-icons {
  color: red;
  height: 2em;
}

Upvotes: 4

Raimo Haikari
Raimo Haikari

Reputation: 119

If you need to style several icons simultaneously, you can wrap them to IconContext.Provider.

<IconContext.Provider value={{color: 'navy', size: 42}}>
   <FaFacebook />
   <FaGithub />
   <FaLinkedin />
</IconContext.Provider>

Upvotes: 4

solomon njobvu
solomon njobvu

Reputation: 589

In reactjs you can use size = 'with your preferred size which be from sm to lg or 1x to 10x'

this is example for font awesome 5 in react 

<FontAwesomeIcon icon={faBars} size = '10x'/>

Upvotes: 34

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