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I am building Semantic UI with Gulp using this guide

However, the problem is now that the icons are not showing. So if I use <i class="facebook icon"></i>, nothing shows up.

I guess I haven't built the icon font or something like that.

Is it necessary to load Font Awesome or something like that myself? I have read through the Semantic UI documentation, but I cannot find anywhere stating that I have to do anything to enable icons.

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You need to include the font assets which are located in themes/default/assets/fonts/

The themes folder must be in the same directory as your semantic.css file.

The fonts are imported externally from the semantic.css file from within the themes directory.

To obtain this directory, download the zip for semantic ui and look inside the dist folder.

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  • still cant get what do you mean at the first step, i did a peak to `assets/semantic-ui/components/icon.css` and find out that `src: url("./../themes/default/assets/fonts/icons.eot");` is correctly included yet i find this hard to understand – Shift 'n Tab Oct 20 '17 at 01:36
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I was having the same issue, use this link tag in the head of your html and you're good to go :

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/semantic-ui/2.4.1/semantic.min.css" />

Got this from their official website.

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Since it's not marked as ansered yet in 2019... Here's the clear answer. The above answers are correct as well, just not straight forward.

So basically what you missed out is the inclusion of the icons themselves. When you download semantic-ui it comes with themes folder within the "dist" folder. what you must do is copy that themes folder and paste it in your project folder where your semantic-ui.css is located. and it will work.

Please remember to mark the question as answered.

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  • Bro, you saved me, big time. Took me four hours to figure out this issue, thanks to you! If you were signed up as a BAT creator, I would send you a tip. – I Stand With Israel Mar 02 '21 at 16:08
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I had an CORS-issue (causing square empty icons) with the Semantic UI Icons when loading the minified CSS from a CDN. Turns out that it was my location override that caused it, turning it off made the icons display properly.

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I fixed the problem replacing this line

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/dist/semantic.min.css">

with this

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fomantic-ui@2.8.7/dist/semantic.min.css">

I also had to add link to icon.min.css

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fomantic-ui/2.8.7/components/icon.min.css">

I wrote a post about it on medium :)

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In my case I forgot to import the semantic ui css file. Import it in the App.js ( as it is the top level file ) or anywhere inside your project.

import 'semantic-ui-css/semantic.min.css'

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I had the same problem and I solve it adding the following lines on my webpack.mix.js

  .copy('node_modules/semantic-ui-css/themes/default/assets/fonts/icons.woff','public/css/themes/default/assets/fonts/icons.woff')
  .copy('node_modules/semantic-ui-css/themes/default/assets/fonts/icons.woff2','public/css/themes/default/assets/fonts/icons.woff2')
  .copy('node_modules/semantic-ui-css/themes/default/assets/fonts/icons.ttf','public/css/themes/default/assets/fonts/icons.ttf')

and then executing the command

npm run dev

This add in my case the missing files I need

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In the semantic.css file, you'll find this line:

background: url("./themes/.....")

so, what you have to do is to copy the themes folder with all its contents beside your semantic.min.css

All simply copy the folder Semantic-UI-CSS-master with all its contents to your public/static/wwww folder, and will get things working smoothly.

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I partially fixed this by downloading icon.min.css from this link and then replacing the CDN link with this two lines:

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="~/Content/icon.min.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="~/Content/semantic.min.css"/>

There are still some icons missing: all the outlined ones. You could also try the fonts folder from this branch but it did not work for me.

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So as the other answers have provided you can change the script to look like:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/semantic-ui/2.4.1/semantic.min.css" />

Stop the server and close your browser. If you do not fully close the browser the error will persist. Restart your server.

If this does not resolve your issue, you can also choose to install the CSS library locally via

npm install semantic-ui-css

Then, import the library into your root index.js component,

import "semantic-ui-css/semantic.min.css";

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I was having the same problems using react tried everything mentioned and nothing worked then just replaced this link
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/semantic-ui@2.4.2/dist/semantic.min.css" />

hope that helps

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