XF 2.3 Awesome for navigation?

[Robert9]

It seems

<i class="fa fa-home"></i>

does not work anymore in 2.3?

 

[Old Nick]

<xf:fa icon="fas fa-home" />

fas for solid, far for regular, fal for light, fad for duotone and fab for brands...

XF 2.3 Post in thread 'Boosting performance in XenForo 2.3'

Sep 26, 2023

Font Awesome improvements​

On almost every page we serve currently, we include as many as five different variants of the Font Awesome 5 Pro icon library. That's up to 8,000 icons split across their different variations, but on any given page we actually use... a lot less than that. The file size of each of these fonts is up to 200KB with an additional 40KB worth of CSS.

We have always wanted to ship a much smaller subset of icons but when admins, style designers and add-on developers have the full suite of icons available to them, this can be a challenge. In particular, working with...

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[Kirby]

<xf:fa icon="fas fa-home" />

This only works where XenForo template code can be used.
But navigation uses phrases which also support Font Awesone icon via {icon}

 

[Old Nick]

Thanks to correct me.
So {icon:fas::home} is the right answer.