# Im not sure why the icons from FontAwesome are blank boxes

**URL:** <https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/im-not-sure-why-the-icons-from-fontawesome-are-blank-boxes/15030>\
**Category:** HTML/CSS\
**Created:** [September 9, 2022, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/im-not-sure-why-the-icons-from-fontawesome-are-blank-boxes/15030 "2022-09-09T10:24:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gerald777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@Gerald777](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/u/Gerald777)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/im-not-sure-why-the-icons-from-fontawesome-are-blank-boxes/15030/1 "2022-09-09T10:24:08Z")

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kind of hard to see, but there are blank boxes to the left of the words, but they are supposed to be icons from FontAwesome.

 ![menu](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/codewithmosh/original/2X/4/4aad3d1ce7d5800aa3e224cde78480295650329b.png)

MY HTML

 ![Screenshot (3)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/codewithmosh/original/2X/f/fab852210f1ae78bba472d7cdad4414600e9986c.png)

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**Author:** ![logandavid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.codewithmosh.com/logandavid/32/4481_2.png) [@logandavid](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/u/logandavid)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/im-not-sure-why-the-icons-from-fontawesome-are-blank-boxes/15030/2 "2022-09-09T14:50:05Z")

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When you open `font-awesome.min.css` you can see following path:

```auto
'Fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf?v=4.2.0' ...

```

Meaning that you will have to create directory `Fonts` and then copy files `fontawesome-webfont.ttf` (`fontawesome-webfont.woff`, `fontawesome-webfont.eot`) to this folder. This will hopefully solve your problem.

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**Author:** ![jmrunkle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.codewithmosh.com/jmrunkle/32/3765_2.png) [@jmrunkle](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/u/jmrunkle)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2022, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.codewithmosh.com/t/im-not-sure-why-the-icons-from-fontawesome-are-blank-boxes/15030/3 "2022-09-10T03:57:24Z")

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Possibly in addition to what was already said, it does not look like you have a style sheet installed with the fontawesome icons. Have you followed the FontAwesome setup instructions: [Get Started | Font Awesome Docs](https://fontawesome.com/docs/web/setup/get-started)