fixes our facet icon alignment issue

app/assets/stylesheets/geoblacklight/_geoblacklight.scss

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 @import 'font-awesome';
 @import 'geoblacklight/styles';
 @import 'modules/coderay';
+@import 'modules/facets';
 @import 'modules/mixins';
 @import 'modules/icon-customization';
 @import 'modules/home';

app/assets/stylesheets/geoblacklight/modules/facets.scss

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+.facet-label .geoblacklight-icon {
+  display: inline;
+  padding-left: 10px;
+  padding-right: 15px;
+}

app/helpers/geoblacklight_helper.rb

@@ -140,4 +140,16 @@ def render_web_services(reference)
   def leaflet_options
     Settings.LEAFLET
   end
+
+  ##
+  # Renders a facet item with an icon placed as the first child of
+  # `.facet-label`. This works with `render_facet_value` and
+  # `render_selected_facet_value`
+  # @return String
+  def render_facet_item_with_icon(field_name, item)
+    doc = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment(render_facet_item(field_name, item))
+    doc.at_css('.facet-label').children.first
+       .add_previous_sibling(geoblacklight_icon(item.value))
+    doc.to_html.html_safe
+  end
 end

app/views/catalog/_icon_facet.html.erb

@@ -2,12 +2,7 @@
   <% paginator = facet_paginator(facet_field, display_facet) %>
   <% paginator.items.each do |item| -%>
   <li>
-    <%= geoblacklight_icon item.value %>
-    <% if facet_in_params?( solr_field, item.value ) %>
-    <%= render_selected_facet_value(solr_field, item) %>
-    <% else %>
-    <%= render_facet_value(solr_field, item) %>
-    <% end -%>
+    <%= render_facet_item_with_icon(field_name, item) %>
   </li>
   <% end %>
 </ul>