How to add a circle border around a Font Awesome icon

I was recently working on building a webpage and I ran into an issue where I wanted to add a circular border around an icon. I was using Bootstrap 4 for the page’s layout and Font Awesome for the icons. I tried a few things with Bootstrap’s border utilities but it couldn’t do what I wanted, so I searched online.

I was able to find this CodePen solution to my problem. I made some edits to the code for my webpage, which I have provided below.

HTML Code

<div class="icon-flex">
  <div class="icon-wrapper"><i class="far fa-user"></i></div>
</div>

CSS Code

.icon-flex, .icon-wrapper {
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
}
.icon-wrapper {
    border-radius: 50%;
    overflow: hidden;
    border: 1px solid blue;
    font-size: 3rem;
    width: 80px;
    height: 80px;
}
.icon-wrapper i {
    color: blue;
}

Few notes about my CSS code

• If you increase or decrease the “font-size” value in the “icon-wrapper” class, it will make the icon larger or smaller.
• If you increase or decrease the “width” and “height” values in the “icon-wrapper” class, it will make the circular border larger or smaller.

Let me know your thoughts about this solution. If you know of a better way to do this, please leave a comment and share your knowledge.