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
Use this Link ->: https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.5.0/css/all.css
CSS
ul li{
list-style-type: none;
position: relative;
}
ul li:before{
position: absolute;
color:#ff0000;
top:0;
left:-30px;
font-family: 'Font Awesome 5 Free';
font-size:1.2em;
content: "\f105";
font-weight: 900; /* <-- add this or 400 for other styles */
display: inline-block;
font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal;
text-rendering: auto;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}