Font awesome 5 on pseudo elements

Question

In font awesome 4 you could easily apply an icon to a :before/:after element using CSS.

Is the same possible with the new font awesome 5 JS/SVG implementation? As fr

Answer 1

You need to enable it (it's disabled by default).

Css:

.class:before{
  display: none;
  content: "\f16c";
  font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Brands";
}

Other types: Font Awesome 5 + Solid or Regular or Light or Brands