How To Add Icons The simplest way to add an icon to your HTML page , is with an icon library , such as Font Awesome. Add the name of the specified icon class to any inline HTML element ( like <i > or <span > ) . All the icons in the icon libraries below , are scalable vectors that can be customized with CSS ( size , color , shadow , etc. ) Font Awesome Icons To use the Font Awesome icons , add the following line inside the <head > section of your HTML page : <link rel = "stylesheet" href = "http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.6.3/css/font-awesome.min.css" > ! visite link