Add font awesome in EJ2 TypeScript Accordion control

2 May 20233 minutes to read

We can customize the Accordion component items by using font awesome icons.

  • Need to add font awesome CDN reference link in your sample to use font awesome icons.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" />

You can add the font awesome icons to the Accordion header using ‘iconCss’ property. The following sample illustrates how to use font awesome in Accordion component.

import {Accordion} from '@syncfusion/ej2-navigations';
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';

enableRipple(true);
let accordion: Accordion = new Accordion({
    items: [
      { header: 'Twitter', expanded: true,  iconCss: 'fa fa-twitter', content: 'Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".' },
      { header: 'Facebook',  iconCss: 'fa fa-facebook', content: 'Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates.' },
      { header: 'WhatsApp', iconCss: 'fa fa-whatsapp',  content: 'WhatsApp is an American freeware, cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Facebook, Inc.' }
    ]
});
accordion.appendTo('#element');
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 Accordion</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript Toolbar Controls" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <div id='loader'>LOADING....</div>
    <div id='container'>
        <div id='element'></div>
        <br/><br/>
        <div id='result'></div>
    </div>
</body>

</html>

Customization

Use following CSS to customize the accordion items header icons.

.e-accordion .e-acrdn-item .e-acrdn-header .e-acrdn-header-icon {
         display: inline-block;
         padding: 0 10px 0 0 !important;
}

Use following CSS to customize the selected accordion item content icons.

.e-accordion .e-acrdn-item.e-select .e-acrdn-panel .e-acrdn-content .e-content-icon {
    color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.54) !important;
}