Icon Control

Elementor Core Basic

DEPRECATED

This control was deprecated in favor of the new Icons Control.

Elementor icon control displays a font icon select box field based on Font Awesome fonts. The control accepts include or exclude arguments to set a partial list of icons.

The control is defined in Control_Icon class which extends Base_Data_Control class.

When using this control, the type should be set to \Elementor\Controls_Manager::ICON constant.

Arguments

Name	Type	Default	Description
type	string	icon	The type of the control.
label	string		The label that appears above of the field.
description	string		The description that appears below the field.
show_label	bool	true	Whether to display the label.
label_block	bool	false	Whether to display the label in a separate line.
separator	string	default	Set the position of the control separator. Available values are default, before and after. default will hide the separator, unless the control type has specific separator settings. before / after will position the separator before/after the control.
options	array	get_icons()	An associative array of available icons.
include	array		An array of icon classes to include in the options list.
exclude	array		An array of icon classes to exclude from the options list.
default	string		Default icon name.

Return Value

(string) The selected icon CSS class.

Usage

<?php
class Elementor_Test_Widget extends \Elementor\Widget_Base {

	protected function register_controls(): void {

		$this->start_controls_section(
			'content_section',
			[
				'label' => esc_html__( 'Content', 'textdomain' ),
				'tab' => \Elementor\Controls_Manager::TAB_CONTENT,
			]
		);

		$this->add_control(
			'icon',
			[
				'label' => esc_html__( 'Social Icons', 'textdomain' ),
				'type' => \Elementor\Controls_Manager::ICON,
				'include' => [
					'fa fa-facebook',
					'fa fa-flickr',
					'fa fa-google-plus',
					'fa fa-instagram',
					'fa fa-linkedin',
					'fa fa-pinterest',
					'fa fa-reddit',
					'fa fa-twitch',
					'fa fa-twitter',
					'fa fa-vimeo',
					'fa fa-youtube',
				],
				'default' => 'fa fa-facebook',
			]
		);

		$this->end_controls_section();

	}

	protected function render(): void {
		$settings = $this->get_settings_for_display();
		?>
		<i class="<?php echo esc_attr( $settings['icon'] ); ?>" aria-hidden="true"></i>
		<?php
	}

	protected function content_template(): void {
		?>
		<i class="{{ settings.icon }}" aria-hidden="true"></i>
		<?php
	}

}