css - How to add badge on top of Font Awesome symbol?

Question

I would like to add badge with some number (5, 10, 100) on top of the Font Awesome symbol (fa-envelope). For example:

But, I can not understand how to put the badge on top of the symbol. My attempt is available here: jsFiddle.

I would like to have it support Twitter Bootstrap 2.3.2.

Answer 1

This can be done with no additional mark-up, just a new class (which you would use anyway) and a pseudo element.

JSFiddle Demo

HTML

<i class="fa fa-envelope fa-5x fa-border icon-grey badge"></i>

CSS

*.icon-blue {color: #0088cc}
*.icon-grey {color: grey}
i {   
    width:100px;
    text-align:center;
    vertical-align:middle;
    position: relative;
}
.badge:after{
    content:"100";
    position: absolute;
    background: rgba(0,0,255,1);
    height:2rem;
    top:1rem;
    right:1.5rem;
    width:2rem;
    text-align: center;
    line-height: 2rem;;
    font-size: 1rem;
    border-radius: 50%;
    color:white;
    border:1px solid blue;
}