Make A Collection Of Svg Files Into Something Like Fontawesome's Js?

I'm not sure if there's already a question like this and possible duplicate of this but I'd like to know how to make a collection of SVG files into something exactly like FontAweso

Solution 1:

You can create custom icons with your own SVG data. Here's a demo GitHub repo that you can play with. And here's a CodePen that shows how something similar might be done in <script> blocks.

In either case, it simply involves using library.add() to add an object like this:

exportconst faSomeObjectName = {
  // Use a prefix like 'fac' that doesn't conflict with a prefix in the standard Font Awesome styles// (So avoid fab, fal, fas, far, fa)prefix: string,
  iconName: string, // Any name you likeicon: [
    number, // widthnumber, // heightstring[], // ligaturesstring, // unicode (if relevant)string// svg path data
  ]
}

Note that the element labelled by the comment "svg path data" in the code sample is what will be assigned as the value of the d attribute on a <path> element that is a child of the <svg>. Like this (leaving out some details for clarity):

<svg><pathd=SVG_PATH_DATA></path></svg>

SVG is capable of lots more possible combinations of elements with their various attributes. So I don't know that you'd be able to use this method to convert any SVG into a form that could be loaded as a custom icon. But if you can reduce what you want to just this path data, then it will work just as in the linked examples.

Solution 2:

I would probably use the SVG <use> tag which allows you to declare your SVG elsewhere in the HTML and then call it at any point.

It will look a little like this <svg height="1em" viewBox="0 0 385.278 385.278"><use xlink:href="#umbrella"></use></svg>

Here is the documentation: LINK

Here is an example using that:

body {
  font-size: 21px;
}

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If you want it to be more like awesome-font you can use some javascript that puts in the <use> tags for you.

This method looks for specific classes and then appends some HTML to them.

classreplaceElement {
  constructor(ele) {
    this.element = ele;
    this.sybol = ele.className.replace("font-change-", "");
    this.insertSVG();
  }
  insertSVG() {
    let svgCont = document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg', 'svg');
    let useCont = document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg', 'use');
    useCont.setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink', 'href', `#${this.sybol}`);
    svgCont.append(useCont);
    svgCont.setAttributeNS(null, 'height', '1em');
    svgCont.setAttributeNS(null, 'viewBox', '0 0 385.278 385.278');
    this.element.append(svgCont);
  }
}

let changedFonts = [];
for (let element ofdocument.querySelectorAll('i[class^="font-change-"]')) {
  changedFonts.push(newreplaceElement(element))
}

body {
  font-size: 21px;
}

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