Minus font awesome icon Usage,CSS Class Name,SVG & CSS Content Code

Minus font awesome icon css class name is fa-minus and CSS Content Code is \f068.

Minus font awesome icon is part of solid icons.

Minus font awesome icon usage

We can display Minus font awesome icon using 3 different ways depending upon our requirement.

1. Using CSS Class Name

2. Using CSS Content Code

3. Using SVG

Minus font awesome icon CSS class name

To display Minus font awesome icon, add predefined class name i.e.,fa-minus (with prefix fa-) to the i tag.

And we need to add corresponding font awesome icon style for the Minus icon.

Minus icon has 1 icon style i.e.,solid. We need to append icon style class fas.

<i class='fas fa-minus'></i>

Minus font awesome icon CSS Content Code

We can display Minus font awesome icon using it’s CSS Content Code \f068

Use the following HTML code

<li><span class='Minus fontawesomeicon'></span>Minus</li>

Apply CSS code

<style> 
.fontawesomeicon::before {
    display: inline-block;
    text-rendering: auto;
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
 }

.Minus::before {
   font: var(--fa-font-solid);
    content: ' \f068';
 }</style>

For the detailed tutorial visit https://www.angularjswiki.com/fontawesome/csscontentcode/

Minus font awesome icon SVG

Use the following icon SVG to display Minus font awesome icon.

<svg class='fontawesomesvg' xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512"><!--! Font Awesome Free 6.2.0 by @fontawesome - https://fontawesome.com License - https://fontawesome.com/license/free (Icons: CC BY 4.0, Fonts: SIL OFL 1.1, Code: MIT License) Copyright 2022 Fonticons, Inc. --><path d="M432 256c0 17.7-14.3 32-32 32L48 288c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l352 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32z"/></svg>

Use the following HTML code

<p>This <svg class='fontawesomesvg' xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512"><!--! Font Awesome Free 6.2.0 by @fontawesome - https://fontawesome.com License - https://fontawesome.com/license/free (Icons: CC BY 4.0, Fonts: SIL OFL 1.1, Code: MIT License) Copyright 2022 Fonticons, Inc. --><path d="M432 256c0 17.7-14.3 32-32 32L48 288c-17.7 0-32-14.3-32-32s14.3-32 32-32l352 0c17.7 0 32 14.3 32 32z"/></svg>
 Minus displayed using SVG</p>

Apply CSS code

  <style>
    .fontawesomesvg {width: 1em;
      height: 1em;
      vertical-align: -.125em;
    }
  </style>

Change Minus font awesome icon size

To increase Minus font awesome icon size, use the fa-lg(33 % increase), fa-2x, fa-3x, fa-4x, or fa-5x classes along with icon class \f068. Increase in icon size will be relative to their parent container.

<i class='fas fa-minus fa-lg'>fa-lg</i><br/>
<i class='fas fa-minus fa-2x'>fa-2x</i><br/>
<i class='fas fa-minus fa-3x'>fa-3x</i><br/>
<i class='fas fa-minus fa-4x'>fa-4x</i><br/>
<i class='fas fa-minus fa-5x'>fa-5x</i><br/>

Minus font awesome icon with Fixed Width

All the font awesome icons does not have same width.

For example Minus icon and home icon may not have same height and width.

So to display two icons with fixed width and height we can use fa-fw class.

<i style='border:1px solid;' class='fas fa-minus fa-fw fa-3x'></i>Fixed Width<i style='border:1px solid;' class='fas fa-minus fa-3x'></i>Normal<br/>
<i style='border:1px solid;' class='fas fa-home fa-fw fa-3x'></i>Fixed Width<i style='border:1px solid;' class='fas fa-home fa-3x'></i>Normal<br/>

Minus font awesome icon Border

To add border to Minus font awesome icon, use fa-border class.

<i class='fas fa-minus fa-border fa-3x'></i>

Pull Minus font awesome icon To the left

To pull Minus icon to the left of the container use fa-pull-left class.

<div style='width: 200px;'>
<i class='fas fa-minus fa-pull-left fa-3x'></i>
  ... The text after Minus Icon will be displayed on the right side of the icon.
</div>
<div style = 'clear: both;'></div>

Pull Minus font awesome icon To the left

To pull Minus icon to the right of the container use fa-pull-right class.

<div style='width: 200px;'>
<i class='fas fa-minus fa-pull-right fa-3x'></i>
  ... The text after Minus Icon will be displayed on the left side of the icon.
</div>
<div style = 'clear: both;'></div>

Animate Minus font awesome icon

To animate Minus font awesome icon, use fa-spin class.

<i class='fas fa-minus fa-spin fa-3x'></i>

Animate Minus font awesome icon with steps

While animating the font awesome icon,We can rotate Minus icon in 8 steps instead of uniform rotation.

We can use fa-pulse icon along with fa-spin class.

<i class='fas fa-minus fa-spin fa-pulse fa-3x'></i>

Rotate Minus font awesome icon

To rotate Minus font awesome icon, Use fa-rotate-x class

Where ‘x’ represents degree of rotation.

<div>
<i class='fas fa-minus fa-3x'>R</i>normal<br/><br/>
<i class='fas fa-minus fa-rotate-90 fa-3x'>R</i> fa-rotate-90<br/><br/> 
<i class='fas fa-minus fa-rotate-180  fa-3x'>R</i> fa-rotate-180<br/><br/> 
<i class='fas fa-minus fa-rotate-270 fa-3x'>R</i> fa-rotate-270<br/><br/>
</div>

Flip Minus font awesome icon

To flip Minus font awesome icon horizontally and vertically use fa-flip-horizontal and fa-flip-vertical classes.

<div>
<i class='fas fa-minus fa-3x'>F</i> Normal <br>
<i class='fas fa-minus fa-flip-horizontal fa-3x'>F</i> fa-flip-horizontal<br>
<i class='fas fa-minus fa-flip-vertical fa-3x'>F</i> fa-flip-vertical<br>
</div>

Combine Minus font awesome icon with other font awesome icons

In font awesome icons,using stacking we can combine multiple icons and display it as one icon.

To do that use the fa-stack class on the parent, the fa-stack-1x for the regularly sized icon, and fa-stack-2x for the larger icon.

And use class fa-inverse for an alternative icon color.

In the below example, I am displaying Minus font awesome icon on top of icons like fa-square,fa-circle and fa-ban.

And used fa-inverse in the second example to invert the color of the icon.

<div>
    <span class='fa-stack fa-lg'>
        <i class='far fa-square fa-stack-2x'></i>
        <i class='fas fa-minus fa-stack-1x'></i>
    </span>
      Minus on fa-square<br>
    <span class='fa-stack fa-lg'>
        <i class='fas fa-circle fa-stack-2x'></i>
        <i class='fas fa-minus fa-stack-1x fa-inverse'></i>
    </span>
      Minus on fa-circle<br>

    <span class='fa-stack fa-lg'>
        <i class='fas fa-minus fa-stack-1x'></i>
        <i class='fas fa-ban fa-stack-2x'></i>
    </span>
      Minus on fa-ban
</div>