We can customize the Tab component items by using font awesome icons and fonts.
<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 Tab component using ‘iconCss’ property. The following sample illustrates how to use font awesome in tab component.
ej.base.enableRipple(true);
//Initialize Tab component
var tabObj = new ej.navigations.Tab({
items: [
{
header: { 'text': 'Twitter', '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". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read ' +
'them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS or mobile device app Twitter Inc. is based in San ' +
'Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, ' +
'Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass and launched in July 2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, ' +
'with more than 100 million users posting 340 million tweets a day in 2012.The service also handled 1.6 billion ' +
'search queries per day.'
},
{
header: { 'text': '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 and fellow students Eduardo ' +
'Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.The founders had initially limited the website\'\s ' +
'membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford ' +
'University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students.'
},
{
header: { 'text': 'WhatsApp', 'iconCss': 'fa fa-whatsapp'},
content: 'WhatsApp Messenger is a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging client for smartphones that operates ' +
'under a subscription business model. It uses the Internet to send text messages, images, video, user location and ' +
'audio media messages to other users using standard cellular mobile numbers. As of February 2016, WhatsApp had a user ' +
'base of up to one billion,[10] making it the most globally popular messaging application. WhatsApp Inc., based in ' +
'Mountain View, California, was acquired by Facebook Inc. on February 19, 2014, for approximately US$19.3 billion.'
}
]
});
//Render initialized Tab component
tabObj.appendTo('#element');<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
<title>EJ2 Tab</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta name="description" content="Typescript Tab Controls">
<meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
<link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="element"> </div>
<br><br>
<div id="result"></div>
</div>
<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
ele.style.visibility = "visible";
}
</script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>Use the following CSS to customize the header item icon of Tab control.
.e-tab .e-tab-header .e-toolbar-item .e-tab-icon {
color: #badfba !important;
}