Adding FontAwesome icons to a D3 graph

Question

I am trying to set an icon with FontAwesome instead of text in my D3 nodes. This is the original implmentation, with text:

g.append(\'svg:text\')
    .attr(\         


        

Answer 1

Thanks to all that replied. My final solution is based on the answer by CarlesAndres:

g.append('text')
    .attr('text-anchor', 'middle')
    .attr('dominant-baseline', 'central')
    .attr('font-family', 'FontAwesome')
    .attr('font-size', '20px')
    .text(function(d) { return ICON_UNICODE[d.nodeType]; });

Be careful with your CSS: it takes precedence over the SVG attributes.

And this is the way it looks:

The good thing about this, compared to the foreignObject solution, is that events are properly handled by D3.