CSS- Social Icons

Introduction

Social Icons are an important element to enhance user engagement on a website. These icons are used to provide links to various social media channels of the website or the owner for the users to follow and interact. CSS class social-icons adds styles to these social icons in order to make them visually appealing and user-friendly.

Usage

To use social-icons class, implement the HTML markup as follows:

<ul class="social-icons">
  <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-facebook"></i></a></li>
  <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i></a></li>
  <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-instagram"></i></a></li>
  <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-pinterest"></i></a></li>
</ul>

Here, the <ul> tag represents an unordered list that contains <li> tags each of which contains an <a> tag representing a social media icon. The icons here are font awesome icons, but any other icon source can be used.

Styles

The social-icons class applies following CSS styles to the social media icons present in the unordered list:

.social-icons {
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
}

.social-icons li {
  margin: 0 10px;
  transition: transform 0.3s ease-in-out;
}

.social-icons li:hover {
  transform: translateY(-2px);
}

.social-icons li a {
  display: inline-flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  width: 40px;
  height: 40px;
  text-align: center;
  border-radius: 50%;
  background-color: #333;
  color: #fff;
  transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
}

.social-icons li a:hover {
  background-color: #fff;
  color: #333;
  transform: scale(1.2);
}

The styles applied are listed below:

• list-style, padding and margin properties are used to remove any default styling of the list.
• display property is set to flex to arrange the list elements in a row.
• align-items property is set to center in order to align the icons vertically.
• margin property on list items is used to provide spacing between the icons.
• transition property is added to create a smooth transition effect when an icon is hovered over.
• The list items are scaled up slightly when they are hovered over using the transform property.
• The a tag is styled with display, justify-content, align-items, width, height, text-align, border-radius, background-color, and color properties to create a circular-shaped icon with appropriate color and padding.
• transition property on anchor tags is used to create smooth transition effect when the icon is hovered over.
• The background-color and color values are changed when the icon is hovered over using the :hover pseudo-class.
• The icons are scaled up slightly when they are hovered over using the transform property.

In conclusion, the social-icons class is a custom CSS class that provides styling to social media icons for a more engaging and user-friendly experience.