The way font-awesome works is to use 2 classes to describe an icon. A class for common properties, named fa and a class for the content (which varies per icon), named fa-icon-name. I think this makes the css itself a bit shorter. And shorter selector get evaluated quicker.
The way font-awesome works is to use 2 classes to describe an icon. A class for common properties, named
fa
and a class for the content (which varies per icon), namedfa-icon-name
. I think this makes the css itself a bit shorter. And shorter selector get evaluated quicker.