Weird symbols in category tab, search button and slider hover

  • Resolved hvegard

    (@hvegard)


    4 years, 11 months ago

    I was unsure which forum to post this in.

    I’m using a Hitmag child theme with a custom style.css.

    After I installed the theme, I noticed a weird symbol occuring on some places on my page.

    This image illustrates the problem:
    https://ibb.co/jyk3nB4

    How to I get them to disappear?

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic

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  • That’s some Unicode character that your browser is missing.
    I see such things a lot when I browse internet with Javascript disabled. (Perhaps the Javascript will load a special font that has the character, for instance.)

    The symbol may be placed there by CSS, too. You could try and right-click on that symbol and select “inspect object” or something similar if your browser contains dev tools. (Firefox and Chrome do, for instance).

    If this character is a part of the theme, then https://www.ads-software.com/support/theme/hitmag may be a good place to look for answers about your parent theme.

    Thread Starter hvegard

    (@hvegard)

    Thank you!

    The characters are only visible in Chrome and Firefox. When I view the page in Microsoft Edge, it looks normal. I couldn’t find the unicode characters by clicking “inspect object”.

    You need to dig a bit deeper:
    Look at CSS rules that are active for the element. Especially rules saying things like :before / :after and content=””

    Thread Starter hvegard

    (@hvegard)

    I had a look, and here’s what I found:

    https://ibb.co/H20MnLm

    When I uncheck the box saying “content: “\f0d7″;”, the character disappears.
    Unfortunately, I don’t know what do do with this information.

    Thread Starter hvegard

    (@hvegard)

    I googled it, and it seems that it’s a character from a font called “Font Awesome”, which I don’t have installed as far as I know.

    EDIT: I installed the Font Awesome plugin on my WordPress and the issue resolved itself.

    Thanks for the support!

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by hvegard.

    Hey there.

    I was having the same exact problem, but after finding this thread in the forums, and reading your last post / reply, I followed and applied the same solution, and my glitch was also solved! THANKS very much for this!

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