[#15163] - [com_fields] Feature request - Icon field parameter
- Closed
- 8 Apr 2017
- Low
- Build: 3.7
- # 15163
A great addition to the new fields function would be the ability to assign a font-awesome icon to the field to replace the label.
A field where you could specify the icon like "fa-home" would suffice. Unfortunately i'm not smart enough to write code for this to be implemented.
Regards
Tom
joomla-cms-bot
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Is there an icon font that is included? I see iconmoon in the backend. With template overrides you mean the template view of the com_fields and use the "label" field as the value for the icon then?
IcoMoon is included, yes. (https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Joomla_Standard_Icomoon_Fonts)
However it is not supported by all frontend templates. It's mainly used in the backend by extension devs.
With template overrides I mean that the rendering uses a JLayout (https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/staging/components/com_fields/layouts/field/render.php) which can be overriden by templates. In that override you could do whatever you like. Eg use the label value as a class attribute (or only if it starts with "icon-"). Or you could use the "render class" as label class. Whatever suits your needs.
| Priority | Medium | ⇒ | Low |
| Status | New | ⇒ | Discussion |
@TLWebdesign should this Issue stay open?
No it shouldn't but i'm not familiar with the github etiquette ;)
| Status | Discussion | ⇒ | Closed |
| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2017-04-08 08:29:55 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | TLWebdesign |
Since we don't have "font-awesome" included in core, such a function wouldn't make much sense in core imho.
However using template overrides, it should be possible to do something like that for sure.