---
id: howto-css-icon-buttons
title: "How To - Icon Buttons"
category: "Web_Recipes"
status: "draft"
verification_status: "conceptual"
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aliases: ["font awesome button icons"]
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source_trust_level: "B"
confidence_score: 0.78
created_at: 2026-07-04
updated_at: 2026-07-04
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tags: ["howto", "css", "w3schools", "buttons", "icons"]
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# [[HOWTO CSS Icon Buttons]]

## 🎯 한 줄 통찰 (One-line insight)
This is the general form of the "icon + optional text" pattern already seen specifically applied to downloads in `[[HOWTO CSS Download Button]]` — the same `<i class="fa fa-*"></i>` icon element works standalone inside a button (icon-only) OR immediately followed by a text label (icon+text), using the IDENTICAL `.btn` styling either way, confirming that "icon button" isn't a distinct component type but simply "any button whose content happens to include a Font Awesome `<i>` tag." [S1]

## 🧠 핵심 개념 (Core concepts)
- **Icon-only buttons** — `<button class="btn"><i class="fa fa-home"></i></button>` — just the icon, no text. [S1]
- **Icon + text buttons** — `<button class="btn"><i class="fa fa-home"></i> Home</button>` — icon followed by a space and label. [S1]
- **Same `.btn` class serves both** — no separate CSS needed to distinguish icon-only from icon+text buttons. [S1]

## 📖 세부 내용 (Details)
- `.btn { background-color: DodgerBlue; border: none; color: white; padding: 12px 16px; font-size: 16px; } .btn:hover { background-color: RoyalBlue; }`. [S1]
- Icons shown: home, bars (menu), trash, close, folder. [S1]

## ⚖️ 모순 및 업데이트 (Contradictions & updates)
- **Download Button 레시피의 일반화된 버전**: `[[HOWTO CSS Download Button]]`에서 이미 다운로드 아이콘 하나에 적용된 "아이콘+텍스트" 패턴이, 이 레시피에서는 아이콘 단독 버전까지 포함해 여러 아이콘(home/menu/trash/close/folder)에 걸쳐 동일한 .btn 클래스로 일반화된다는 점이 확인됨. [S1]

## 🛠️ 적용 사례 (Applied in summary)
Home/Menu/Trash/Close/Folder 5개 아이콘을 아이콘 단독, 아이콘+텍스트 두 가지 스타일로 각각 제시하는 예제가 원문에서 직접 제공됨. [S1]

## 💻 코드 패턴 (Code patterns)
Icon-only vs. icon+text buttons using the same class (HTML + CSS):
```html
<button class="btn"><i class="fa fa-home"></i></button>
<button class="btn"><i class="fa fa-home"></i> Home</button>
```
```css
.btn { background-color: DodgerBlue; border: none; color: white; padding: 12px 16px; font-size: 16px; }
.btn:hover { background-color: RoyalBlue; }
```

## ✅ 검증 상태 및 신뢰도
- **상태:** draft
- **검증 단계:** conceptual
- **출처 신뢰도:** B (W3Schools — widely used educational reference)
- **신뢰 점수:** 0.78
- **중복 검사 결과:** 신규 생성 (New discovery)

## 🔗 지식 그래프 (Knowledge Graph)
- **상위/루트:** [[W3Schools HOW TO]]
- **관련 개념:** [[HOWTO CSS Download Button]], [[HOWTO CSS Notification Button]]
- **참조 맥락:** CSS Buttons 섹션.

## 📚 출처 (Sources)
- [S1] W3Schools — How To - Icon Buttons — https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_icon_buttons.asp

## 📝 변경 이력 (Change history)
- 2026-07-04: Initial draft synthesized from the W3Schools "How To - Icon Buttons" recipe (Astra wiki-curation, P-Reinforce v3.1 format).
