Grabs all the .fa and tries to extract the Unicode character for the :before pseudo-class

grab-fontawesome-classes-and-unicode.js

// Grabs all the .fa and tries to extract the Unicode character for the :before pseudo-class
// Based on http://fontawesome.io/icons/
// Inspired by c.bavota https://github.com/cbavota


// window.getComputedStyle trickery thanks to http://stackoverflow.com/a/21709814/636709
// Unicode conversion via http://stackoverflow.com/a/21014576/636709


var strAll = '$font_awesome_icons = array(' + "\n";

$('.fontawesome-icon-list').find('.fa').each(function () {
	var $this = $(this),
		arrClasses = this.className.split(/\s+/),
		unicodeValue = window.getComputedStyle(this, ':before')
			.getPropertyValue('content')[1].toUnicode();


	strAll += "\t'" + arrClasses[1] + "' => '" + unicodeValue + "',\n";

});

strAll += ');';

console.log(strAll);







String.prototype.toUnicode = function () {
	var result = "";
	for (var i = 0; i < this.length; i++) {
		result += "\\u" + ("000" + this[i].charCodeAt(0).toString(16)).substr(-4);
	}
	return result;
};