How to add badge on top of Font Awesome symbol?

Question

I would like to add badge with some number (5, 10, 100) on top of the Font Awesome symbol (fa-envelope). For example:

Answer 1

Wrap the fa-envelope and the span containing the number in a div and make the wrapper div position:relative and the span position:absolute.

Check this fiddle

HTML used

   
   100

CSS

.icon-wrapper{
    position:relative;
    float:left;
}

*.icon-blue {color: #0088cc}
*.icon-grey {color: grey}
i {   
    width:100px;
    text-align:center;
    vertical-align:middle;
}
.badge{
    background: rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
    width: auto;
    height: auto;
    margin: 0;
    border-radius: 50%;
    position:absolute;
    top:-13px;
    right:-8px;
    padding:5px;
}

Hope this might help you