This tutorial will show you how to add custom icons to Squarespace 7.1 navigation. if you have not upgraded to version 7.1 yet then we suggest you do.

Complexity: Moderate

Step 1

First thing we need to do is upload your icons on to squarespace.

From the Squarespace dashboard navigate to:

Design > Custom CSS and at the bottom click on the 'MANAGE CUSTOM FILES' button and then click on the 'Add image or font' button to upload your icon images.

Step 2

The next step will be to add the basic styles for all the link for both desktop and mobile devices

Step 3

Add code for specific link. To select only the specific link then we can use :nth-child.

* change the number depending on which link you want to select 1, 2 ,3 etc.

Step 4

Assign icon to link.

To do this place your cursor in between ' ' in background: url (' '); line.

Then click the ‘MANAGE CUSTOM FILES’ to show the icons, lastly click on the icon to be assigned to the link once.

Step 5

Different icon for each link.

Repeat steps 3 and 4. below are the code for link 2 and link 3

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