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Fontawesome icons not working on codepen.io

Altcademy Team wrote on 7 February 2018

<i class="fa fa-codepen" aria-hidden="true"></i>
this code for fa fa icon is not working for me on code pen Any one, any idea?

Answer
Make sure you have linked to the Font Awesome CDN in your html file. You can get one by going to http://fontawesome.io/get-started/ and inputing your email address. It will look something like this.
<script src="https://use.fontawesome.com/9d03eba9c5.js"></script>

Here is a link for a working codepen https://codepen.io/xiaopow/pen/ORPpJJ

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