Want to make Font Awesome icons clickable

Question

So I am new to web development and I am trying to link font awesome icons to my social profiles but am unsure of how to do that. I tried using an a href tag but it made all

Answer 1

If you don't want it to add it to a link, you can just enclose it within a span and that would work.

in your css, then you can:

#clickableAwesomeFont {
     cursor: pointer
}

Then in java script, you can just add a click handler.

In cases where it's actually not a link, I think this is much cleaner and using a link would be changing its semantics and abusing its meaning.