Font-awesome icon not showing in Bootstrap navbar

Question

I am trying to place the icon in navbarnext to the link, but it does not appear.

Here are the downloaded Bootstrap and Font-awesome files

 <!-- Latest compiled and minified CSS -->
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" media="screen">
  <link rel="stlyesheet" href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.1.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" media="screen">

Here is bootstrap navbar

    <!-- Navbar -->
    <div class="navbar navbar-default navbar-static-top">
      <div class="navbar-inner">
        <div class="container">
          <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse">
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
          </button>
          <a class="navbar-brand text-muted" href="#">ASDF</a>
          <div class="collapse navbar-collapse">
            <div class="navbar-right">
              <button type="button" class="btn btn-default navbar-btn btn-success">Register</button>
              <button type="button" class="btn btn-default navbar-btn btn-primary">Log In</button>
           </div>
            <ul id="navbarLinks" class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
              <li><a href="#">Discover</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">Merchants</a></li>
             <!-- ********************************************* -->
             <!-- ********************************************* -->
             <li><a href="#">About</a><span class="fa fa-question"></span></span></li>
             <!-- ********************************************* -->
             <!-- ********************************************* -->
              <li class="dropdown">
                <a data-toggle="dropdown" data-target="#" href="#">Resources<b class="caret"></b></a>
                <ul class="dropdown-menu">
                  <li><a href="#">Support</a></li>
                  <li><a href="#">Blog</a></li>
                </ul>
              </li>
            </ul>
          </div> <!-- collapse navbar-collapse -->
        </div><!-- container -->
       </div><!-- navbar-inner -->
    </div>
    <!-- End Navbar -->

  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>

Answer 1

The binding cell has the css property:

display:block;

Therefore, when you place the icon after the anchor tag, "About" takes up a full block of space and displays the icon below instead. To solve this problem, you can simply include the icon in the anchor tag.

<li><a href="#">About <span class="fa fa-question"></span></a></span></li>

Here's what it looks like when you do this:

Demo