how to create social media icons with hover effects - csshint

In this post we are going to show how to how to create social media icons with hover effects with transition effect. these effects can make your site feel much more attaractive. you can use this effects in your projects.

The structure of markup is very simple and intuitive. Create a container that will have our all the social icons list.

<div class="container">
 <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-linkedin"></i></a></li>
  <li> <a href="#"><i class="fa fa-youtube"></i></a></li>
  <li> <a href="#"><i class="fa fa-google"></i></a></li>
 </ul> 
</div>

After creating our markup we’re going to set our style.
We set the general rules for our class and then we are going to add a special class with the desired effect styles.


/*--first include font awesome cdn file in header tag --*/  
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
body{
      background:#504496;
}
.social-icons {
      margin:50px auto;
      padding:0px;
      text-align:center;
      width:100%;
}
.social-icons li {
      Display:inline-block;
      margin:10px;
     }
.social-icons li a {
      color:#fff;
      display:inline-block;
      font-size:25px;
      height:50px;
      width:50px;
      text-decoration:none;
      position:relative;
      margin-bottom:20px;
      font-family:'FontAwesome';
      transition:all 0.5s ease;
     pointer-events:auto;
}
.social-icons li a i {
      line-height:50px;
}
.social-icons li a:hover  {
      color:#3a5ba0;
      background-color:#fff;
      -webkit-border-radius:25px;
      -moz-border-radius:25px;
      border-radius: 25px;
}