diff --git a/addons/web_editor/static/src/js/widgets.js b/addons/web_editor/static/src/js/widgets.js
index 44b6b9502d1..6e7a6784351 100644
--- a/addons/web_editor/static/src/js/widgets.js
+++ b/addons/web_editor/static/src/js/widgets.js
@@ -637,9 +637,12 @@ var fontIconsDialog = Widget.extend({
     },
     renderElement: function () { // extract list of font (like awesome) from the cheatsheet.
         this.iconsParser = fontIcons;
-        this.icons = _.flatten(_.map(fontIcons, function (data) {
+        this.icons = _.flatten(_.map(fontIcons, function (data) { // TODO maybe useless now
             return data.icons;
         }));
+        this.alias = _.flatten(_.map(fontIcons, function (data) {
+            return data.alias;
+        }));
         this._super.apply(this, arguments);
     },
     search: function (needle) {
@@ -741,11 +744,8 @@ var fontIconsDialog = Widget.extend({
                 case '': continue;
                 default:
                     $(".font-icons-icon").removeClass("o_selected").filter("[data-alias*=',"+cls+",']").addClass("o_selected");
-                    for (var k=0; k<this.icons.length; k++) {
-                        if (this.icons.indexOf(cls) !== -1) {
-                            this.$('#fa-icon').val(cls);
-                            break;
-                        }
+                    if (this.alias.indexOf(cls) !== -1) {
+                        this.$('#fa-icon').val(cls);
                     }
             }
         }