Add a space in CSS content

Question

I have a button with a Font Awesome icon as content. That works perfect. Problem is that the text following it has no space between the font awesome icon and the text. How can I add a space to the content?

a:before {
font-family: FontAwesome;
content: "\f095 --a   here --";
display: inline-block;

}

Answer 1

For CSS content   use \a0. The following is a list of different types of spaces and their CSS code:

• space: \20
• nbsp: \a0
• en space: \2002
• em space: \2003
• 3 per em space: \2004
• 4 per em space: \2005
• 6 per em space: \2006
• figure space: \2007
• punctuation space: \2008
• thin space: \2009
• hair space: \200a
• zero width space: \200b
• narrow nbsp: \202f
• medium mathematical space: \205f
• zero width nbsp: \feff

Demo

a {
  display: block;
}

a::before {
  font-family: FontAwesome;
  display: inline-block;
}

#x0::before {
  content: "\f095";
}

#x1::before {
  content: "\f095\20"
}

#x2::before {
  content: "\f095\a0"
}

#x3::before {
  content: "\f095\2002"
}

#x4::before {
  content: "\f095\2003"
}

#x5::before {
  content: "\f095\2004"
}

#x6::before {
  content: "\f095\2005"
}

#x7::before {
  content: "\f095\2006"
}

#x8::before {
  content: "\f095\2007"
}

#x9::before {
  content: "\f095\2008"
}

#xa::before {
  content: "\f095\2009"
}

#xb::before {
  content: "\f095\200a"
}

#xc::before {
  content: "\f095\200b"
}

#xd::before {
  content: "\f095\202f"
}

#xe::before {
  content: "\f095\205f"
}

#xf::before {
  content: "\f095\feff"
}

#x0::after {
  content: "\a0\a0"
}

#x1::after {
  content: "\a0\a0\\20"
}

#x2::after {
  content: "\a0\a0\\a0"
}

#x3::after {
  content: "\a0\a0\\2002"
}

#x4::after {
  content: "\a0\a0\\2003"
}

#x5::after {
  content: "\a0\a0\\2004"
}

#x6::after {
  content: "\a0\a0\\2005"
}

#x7::after {
  content: "\a0\a0\\2006"
}

#x8::after {
  content: "\a0\a0\\2007"
}

#x9::after {
  content: "\a0\a0\\2008"
}

#xa::after {
  content: "\a0\a0\\2009"
}

#xb::after {
  content: "\a0\a0\\200a"
}

#xc::after {
  content: "\a0\a0\\200b"
}

#xd::after {
  content: "\a0\a0\\202f"
}

#xe::after {
  content: "\a0\a0\\205f"
}

#xf::after {
  content: "\a0\a0\\feff"
}

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