XF 2.2 Using weight-independent font awesome icons in phrases

[Kirby]

XenForo has a style property for Font Awesome Weight.

I might be missing smth, but it does not seem possible to use a FA icon in a phrase that does respect this property.

If I use <i class="fa fa-whatever"></i> in a phrase it will use this icon in solid weight.
I could also make it use light or regular, but I don't see a way to use the configured weight.

Any ideas?

 

[Lukas W.]

You can feed the icon weight in as phrase parameter.

 

[Kirby]

Yeah, that would work ... if I have control over the incovcation.

If it is being called from PHP code I would have to modify the code or write a class extension to do so.
That seems like a lot of overhead for just using an icon

 

[Chris D]

We don't tend to use icons inside phrases ourselves so it's never really come up.

You'd have to add a custom class to the HTML inside your phrase, e.g. faweight and define that in CSS somewhere to have the configured weight, e.g.

.fa.faweight
{
    font-weight: @xf-fontAwesomeWeight;
}

 

[Kirby]

Thats's basically what I am doing right now, but I had some hope I was missing smth. and this could be avoided.

Would be nice if smth. like that would exist in master

Usecase
We do use FA icons in phrases for help pages (to explain how certain tasks can be performed, etc.)