How to Add Font Awesome Icons to Joomla Menu Links

How to Add Font Awesome Icons to Joomla Menu Links

Some Joomla templates come with icon support for menu items. Some others come without it.

If your template doesn't support menu icons, we have a solution for you.

Continue reading this post to know how to add Font Awesome icons to your menu items.


Step #1. Download and install NS Font Awesome Joomla extension

  • Go to this page and download the NS Font Awesome Joomla extension.

ns font awesome

  • Login to your Joomla administrator area.
  • Go to Extensions > Manage.
  • Click "Upload a Package File" tab and upload the zip file you just downloaded.

Step #2. Enable the NS Font Awesome

  • Go to Extensions > Plugins.
  • Look for the "System - NS Font Awesome" and enable it.

Icons to Joomla Menu Items

This plugin will load the necessary files to make Font Awesome icons work on your site.


Step #3. Download and Install RokCandy Joomla extension

To add icons, the <i> tag is required, however, Joomla doesn't allow to add it directly into the menu item title. To avoid this limitation, you need RokCandy extension.

  • Go to this page and download the RokCandy Joomla extension.
  • Install it by going to Extensions > Manage.

Icons to Joomla Menu Items


Step #4. Create a macro with RokCandy

  • Go to Components > RokCandy > Macros.

Icons to Joomla Menu Items

  • Click the "New" button.

Icons to Joomla Menu Items

  • In the Macro textarea type this:

  • In the Html area type this:

<i class="fa {icon}"></i>

Icons to Joomla Menu Items

  • Click "Save & Close" when you're done.

Step #5. Use the macro in a menu item

  • Go to Menus > [Your menu] > [Your menu item].

In my example, I'm adding the user icon next to "About" text with this snippet:

 About

Icons to Joomla Menu Items

In the example above, fa-user is a CSS class to render the user icon. To know which class icons are available, take a look at the list from the Font Awesome developer's site.

  • Go to Page Display tab
  • Set a Browser page title. Type the menu item title but without the macro.

Icons to Joomla Menu Items

  • Click "Save & Close".

Step #6. Check the end result

  • Visit your public site to preview the icon:

Icons to Joomla Menu Items


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