How do I add a Font Awesome icon to input field?

Question

How do I use the search icon included in Font Awesome for input? I have a search feature on my site (based on PHPmotion), that I want to use for the search.

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Answer 1

Here is a solution that works with simple CSS and standard font awesome syntax, no need for unicode values, etc.

1. Create an tag followed by a standard tag with the icon you need.

2. Use relative positioning together with a higher layer order (z-index) and move the icon over and on top of the input field.

3. (Optional) You can make the icon active, to perhaps submit the data, via standard JS.

See the three code snippets below for the HTML / CSS / JS.

Or the same in JSFiddle here: Example: http://jsfiddle.net/ethanpil/ws1g27y3/

$('#filtersubmit').click(function() {
  alert('Searching for ' + $('#filter').val());
});

#filtersubmit {
  position: relative;
  z-index: 1;
  left: -25px;
  top: 1px;
  color: #7B7B7B;
  cursor: pointer;
  width: 0;
}