How to include an icon in a dashboard nav item?

[pensivedog]

Description

Is it possible to get a bootstrap icon in a dashboard navigation tab? Pasting an emoji works, but I've tried everything I can think of and can't get a bs icon to appear in the dashboard nav alongside an item's text.

---
title: "Dashboard with Icons in Nav"
format: dashboard
---

# Nav tab 1 {how to add a bootstrap icon here?}

## Row

# "Or here?" Nav tab 2

[mcanouil]

either you know the HTML code or you use shortcode from an extension

quarto add mcanouil/quarto-iconify

---
title: "Dashboard with Icons in Nav"
format: dashboard
---

# Nav tab 1 {{< iconify iconSet:iconName >}}

## Row

# `<CODE>`{=html} Nav tab 2

[pensivedog]

Alright. Thanks for confirming it's not just happening on my end.

It's pretty normal to want to put icons in nav menus... I hope this can somehow get addressed. Or, if anyone has a workaround in the meantime, please share!

[mcanouil]

At this point, it's not a trivial workaround.

@cderv @cscheid do you know if it is by design that dashboard markdown headers are striped out of any formatting/markdown?

[cscheid]

Unlikely to be by design, but a simplifying assumption. Good enhancement ticket material.

[mcanouil]

• Allow markdown in dashboard headers #11634