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<p>Easy ways to get Font Awesome 3.2.1 onto your website</p>
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Setting up Font Awesome can be as simple as adding two lines of code to your website, or you can be a pro and
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<a href="http://getbootstrap.com">Bootstrap</a>!
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<h2 class="page-header">EASIEST: <a href="http://www.bootstrapcdn.com/#tab_fontawesome">BootstrapCDN</a></h2>
<p>Add Font Awesome + Bootstrap into your website with two lines of code. You don't even have to download or install anything!</p>
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Paste the following code into the <code><head></code> section of your site's HTML.
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="html"><span class="nt"><link</span> <span class="na">href=</span><span class="s">"//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.2/css/bootstrap-combined.no-icons.min.css"</span> <span class="na">rel=</span><span class="s">"stylesheet"</span><span class="nt">></span>
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<i class="icon-info-sign"></i> Want to use Font Awesome by itself without Bootstrap? Just don't include the first line.
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Pat yourself on the back for your scalable-vector-icons-on-the-website
<a href="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/312-lingo-judo">judo solution</a> in two lines of code.
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Check out the <a href="../examples/">examples</a> to start using Font Awesome!
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<h2 class="page-header">EASY: Default CSS</h2>
<p>Use this method to get the default Font Awesome CSS with the default Bootstrap CSS.</p>
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<li>Copy the <code>font-awesome</code> directory into your project.</li>
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In the <code><head></code> of your html, reference the location to your font-awesome.min.css.
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="html"><span class="nt"><link</span> <span class="na">rel=</span><span class="s">"stylesheet"</span> <span class="na">href=</span><span class="s">"path/to/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css"</span><span class="nt">></span>
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</code></pre></div>
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<h2 class="page-header">PRO: Custom LESS</h2>
<p>Use this method to customize Font Awesome and Bootstrap 2.3.2 using LESS.</p>
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<li>Copy the <code>font-awesome</code> directory into your project.</li>
<li>Open your project's bootstrap/bootstrap.less and replace
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="html">@import "sprites.less";
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Open your project's font-awesome/variables.less and edit the <code>@FontAwesomePath</code> variable to point to your font directory.
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="html">@FontAwesomePath: "../font";
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<p class="alert alert-info"><i class="icon-info-sign"></i> The font path is relative from your compiled CSS directory.</p>
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<li>Re-compile your LESS if using a static compiler. Otherwise, you should be good to go.</li>
<li>Check out the <a href="../examples/">examples</a> to start using Font Awesome!</li>
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<li>Copy the <code>font-awesome</code> directory into your project.</li>
<li>Follow the above directions and skip the Bootstrap parts.</li>
<li>Open your project's font-awesome.less or font-awesome.min.css and edit the font location to point it to your font directory (see above examples).</li>
<li>Check out the <a href="../examples/">examples</a> to start using Font Awesome!</li>
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<p>Font Awesome supports IE7. If you need it, you have my condolences.</p>
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<li>Get Font Awesome working properly in a modern browser.</li>
<li>Copy font-awesome-ie7.min.css into your project.</li>
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In the <code><head></code> of your html, reference the location to your font-awesome-ie7.min.css.
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="html"><span class="nt"><link</span> <span class="na">rel=</span><span class="s">"stylesheet"</span> <span class="na">href=</span><span class="s">"path/to/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css"</span><span class="nt">></span>
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