Responsive Social Share Buttons

by Vincy. Last modified on July 12th, 2022.

Earlier we saw about responsive web design for designing a login form that adapts various screen sizes. In this tutorial, we are going to see how to adapt responsive social share buttons for various device viewport.

If you like to know about what is responsive design, refer this tutorial.

In this example, we are showing either social share icons or text buttons based on the media screen width. We are also managing the position of the buttons to different locations on the device screen.

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In desktop monitor, the output will be,
social-share-buttons
In mobile browsers,

responsive-share-icons

HTML Code with Responsive Share Buttons

The HTML code containing group of social share button is,

<html>
<head>
<TITLE>Responsive Social Share Buttons</TITLE>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
	<h1>Responsive Social Share Buttons</h1>
	<div id="share-box">
		<div class="btnShare btnFacebook">
			<img src="facebook.png" class="icon-share"><span class="txt-share">Facebook</span>
		</div>
		<div class="btnShare btnTwitter">
			<img src="twitter.png" class="icon-share"><span class="txt-share">Twitter</span>
		</div>
		<div class="btnShare btnGoogle">
			<img src="google-plus.png" class="icon-share"><span class="txt-share">Google</span>
		</div>
	</div>
	<div class="txt-content">
		<p>Few days before we have seen about responsive web design for
			designing a login form that adapts various screen sizes. In this
			tutorial, we are going to adapt responsive social share buttons for
			various device view port.</p>
		<p>In this example we are showing either social share icons or text
			based on the media screen width. We are also managing position of the
			buttons to be adapted within the device screen.</p>
		<p>The HTML code will contain group of social share icons in a DIV
			container. This container's position is controlled by the style sheet
			with various device screen by using medial queries.</p>
	</div>
</body>
</html>

CSS for Responsive Share Buttons

This style sheet contains media queries to manage the social share button positions by using CSS position and float properties.

body {
	width: 610px;
	margin: 0 auto;
}

#share-box {
	position: relative;
	float: left;
}

.btnShare {
	float: left;
	padding: 10px;
	margin-right: 15px;
	cursor: pointer;
}

.btnFacebook {
	background: #7AA2FE;
}

.btnTwitter {
	background: #00DEFF;
}

.btnGoogle {
	background: #FCBDB3;
}

.txt-content {
	clear: both;
	padding-top: 5px;
}

.txt-share {
	color: #FFF;
	padding-left: 5px;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 845px) and (max-width: 1044px) {
	body {
		width: 50%;
		margin: 0 auto;
	}
	#share-box {
		position: absolute;
		top: 100px;
		float: left;
	}
	.btnShare {
		clear: both;
		padding: 15px;
		cursor: pointer;
		border-bottom-left-radius: 5px;
		border-top-left-radius: 5px;
		margin-bottom: 15px;
	}
	.txt-content {
		border-left: #F0F0F0 1px solid;
		padding-left: 20px;
		margin-left: 54px;
	}
	.txt-share {
		display: none;
	}
}

@media screen and (max-width: 844px) {
	body {
		width: 80%;
		margin: 0 auto;
	}
	.btnShare {
		float: left;
		padding: 15px;
		cursor: pointer;
		border-radius: 5px;
	}
	.txt-share {
		display: none;
	}
}

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