Font awesome icon button with label below

Question

I need to create a button with a font awesome icon and a text below that icon for a navigation menu. The result should look like ie the icons in the MS ribbon:

I also need the arrow below of that (ie. "new"-button) for more options...

This is how I would create the button:

JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/3GMjp/77/

 .my-fancy-container { display: inline-block; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; margin: 60px; padding: 10px; } .my-text { font-family: "Courier-new"; } .my-icon { vertical-align: middle; font-size: 40px; } 

 <div class="my-fancy-container"> <span class='icon icon-file-text my-icon'></span> <span class="my-text">New</span> </div> 

Answer 1

To place the text bellow the button, add display: block :

.my-text {
  display: block;
  font-family: "Courier-new";
}

To center your image, add a text-align :

.my-fancy-container {
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  border-radius: 6px;
  display: inline-block;
  margin: 60px;
  padding: 10px;
  text-align: center;
}

For the arrow, add a div and this css :

<div class="arrow-down"></div>

CSS:

.arrow-down {
    width: 0; 
    height: 0; 
    border-left: 5px solid transparent;
    border-right: 5px solid transparent;
    border-top: 5px solid black;
    margin: 0 auto;
}

JSfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ghorg12110/3GMjp/418/

SNIPPET :

 .my-fancy-container { border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; display: inline-block; margin: 60px; padding: 10px; text-align: center; } .my-text { display: block; font-family: "Courier-new"; } .my-icon { vertical-align: middle; font-size: 40px; } .arrow-down { width: 0; height: 0; border-left: 5px solid transparent; border-right: 5px solid transparent; border-top: 5px solid black; margin: 0 auto; } 

 <link href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/3.2.1/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/> <link href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.2/css/bootstrap-combined.no-icons.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/> <div class="my-fancy-container"> <span class='icon icon-file-text my-icon'></span> <span class="my-text">Hello World</span> <div class="arrow-down"></div> </div> 

Answer 2

Add display: block and text-align: center to your icon class.

Fiddle

Answer 3

A nother possibility is to use the before and after selector

See this fiddle

As you can see in your css

  .my-fancy-container { display: inline-block; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 6px; margin: 60px; padding: 30px; position: relative; } .my-fancy-container::after { content: "\\f0d7"; font-family: FontAwesome; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: inherit; /*--adjust as necessary--*/ color: #000; font-size: 18px; padding-right: 0.5em; position: absolute; bottom: 5px; left: 45%; } .my-text { font-family: "Courier-new"; } .my-fancy-container::before { content: "\\f15c"; font-family: FontAwesome; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: inherit; /*--adjust as necessary--*/ color: #000; font-size: 28px; padding-right: 0.5em; position: absolute; top: 5px; left: 40%; } .my-icon { vertical-align: middle; font-size: 40px; } 

 <link href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/3.2.1/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/> <link href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.2/css/bootstrap-combined.no-icons.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/> <div class="my-fancy-container"> <span class="my-text">Hello World</span> </div> 

there are only a few changes :)

Of course you can place the image with the before selector as well.. so you have two images on the button and the text in the middle.