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Font Awesome on Joomla 4 are loaded locally or call external URLs?

Post by Bouquet85 » Tue Dec 07, 2021 6:21 pm

I'm not very experienced so sorry if the question isn't good.
I would like to know if font Awesome present in the basic installation of Joomla 4 with Cassiopeia template are loaded locally or call external URLs (maybe outside Europe)?

Thank you very much

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Re: Font Awesome on Joomla 4 are loaded locally or call external URLs?

Post by brian » Tue Dec 07, 2021 8:38 pm

Everything is loaded locally. Nothing is loaded by external url by default.
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Re: Font Awesome on Joomla 4 are loaded locally or call external URLs?

Post by ceford » Wed Dec 08, 2021 6:39 am

As a newcomer you should become familiar with your browser Developer tools. In the case of Chrome or Firefox you can right click and select the 'Show source' option. You will see all of the links to css, js and other resources near the top of the source display. The actual source of the fonts is hidden away inside joomla-fontawesome.css in the @font-face sections. For example: src: url("../../../media/vendor/fontawesome-free/webfonts/fa-regular-400.eot"); which is the source of the font relative to the css file.

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Re: Font Awesome on Joomla 4 are loaded locally or call external URLs?

Post by Bouquet85 » Wed Dec 08, 2021 8:17 am

Hello,
thank you so much for your replies.
Font Awesome was confusing me because I didn't understand where they loaded (they're new to me).
I will follow the advice to learn the Developer Tools well :) .
Thanks again


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