[Resolved] Use font awesome inside a select

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[jan-karelB]

Tell us what you are trying to do?
I would like an WordPress Editor to be able to select a font awesome icon.
I would like to setup a custom field for that using a select.

What we need:
Can you supply an example of what code is needed in the select?

Is there any documentation that you are following?
None found

Is there a similar example that we can see?
Not that we know

What is the link to your site?
Site and functionality is under construction, but we need this asap.

[Nigel]

Hi there

Co-incidentally I'm just dealing with another thread where it has been reported that there is a bug in the select fields so that any HTML elements added to the display text are stripped, which means right now what you want isn't possible because the font-awesome icons are added something like this:

<i class="fas fa-coffee fa-xs"></i> 

I've escalated this issue to the developers, who will hopefully be able to provide a fix before too long.

Until then it's not possible. I'll update again here as soon as I have news from the developer about a solution.

[Nigel]

Hi there

The developer has added a workaround to the erratum for this issue which you can try: https://toolset.com/errata/html-in-toolset-custom-field-labels-is-stripped-when-saving-the-fields/

The solution itself will be included in the next release of Types.

[Nigel]

Just to let you know that Types 3.3.9 which includes the fix for this has now been released.