CSS

July 25, 2024

Code Snippet

Some sites have a fixed icon bar sitting off to the side of the screen with their social channels always being displayed. This is how to create one.

HTML

<div class="icon_bar">
    <a class="active_icon" href="#"><i class="fa fa-home"></i></a>
    <a href="#"><i class="fa fa-search"></i></a>
    <a href="#"><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i></a>
    <a href="#"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i></a>
    <a href="#"><i class="fa fa-facebook"></i></a>
    <a href="#"><i class="fa fa-instagram"></i></a>
</div>

.icon_bar {
    width: 50px;
    background-color: #2d2d2d;
    position: fixed;
    top: 10px;
    left: 0;
}
.icon_bar a {
    display: block;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 12px;
    color: #ffffff;
    font-size: 22px;
    transition: all 0.3s ease;
}
.icon_bar a:hover {
    background-color: #494949;
}
.icon_bar .active_icon {
    background-color: #ff0000;
}

Example

CSS Notes:

The “inherit”, “initial” and “unset” keywords can be used with any CSS property to set its value
In CSS there are many ways to express a color value in a property

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