Create a share button pasted at the bottom of the page with CSS

Displaying a social networking sharing button on your site helps to increase the number of visits. Nowadays, it has become essential to offer this kind of button whenever we publish articles or project presentations. Let's find out how to set up this kind of button in this article!

LLLouis-Nicolas Leuillet

Updated on December 9, 2024

Displaying a social media share button on your website helps increase the number of visits. Nowadays, it has become essential to offer this type of button when providing articles or project presentations. Let's discover together how to implement this type of button in this article!

Step 1

Let's include first Font Awesome 5.

HTML

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.1/css/all.min.css”>

Step 2

Let's handle the HTML code.

HTML

<div class="share">
  <ol>
    <li><a href="#"><i class="fab fa-instagram fa-2x"></i></a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><i class="fab fa-facebook fa-2x"></i></a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><i class="fab fa-whatsapp fa-2x"></i></a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><i class="fab fa-twitter fa-2x"></i></a></li>
  </ol>
  <div class="toggle"></div>
</div>

Thanks to the Font Awesome library we added in the first step, each class starting with “fa” will be retrieved and transformed into an icon.

The class fa-2x allows doubling the size of the icon.

You can find all available icons on fontawesome.com/icons.

Step 3

Let's style the "share" button.

CSS

.toggle {
  width: 50px;
  height: 50px;
  background: #c70039;
  border-radius: 50%;
  cursor: pointer;
  position: relative;
}

.toggle::before {
  content: '\f1e0';
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  position: absolute;
  color: white;
  font-family: 'Font Awesome 5 Free';
  font-weight: 900;
  text-align: center;
  line-height: 50px;
  font-size: 22px;
}

It is very important to add the font 'Font Awesome 5 Free' and specify that we want to use a bold font (font-weight) of 900.

Step 4

Let's now style the bullet list of our button.

CSS

.share.active .toggle::before {
  content: '\f00d';
  font-size: 2rem;
}
.share {
  position: fixed;
  bottom: 70px;
  right: 70px;
}
.share ol {
  position: absolute;
  width: 50px;
  height: 50px;
}

Step 5

Let's style each link.

CSS

.share ol li {
  position: absolute;
  width: 50px;
  height: 50px;
  background: white;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  border-radius: 50%;
  transition: all .3s;
  opacity: 0;
}

.share ol li a {
  color: black;
}

.share.active ol li {
  opacity: 1;
  transition: all .3s;
}

Step 6

Let's shift each item a certain distance to make them appear from each side of our button.

CSS

.share.active ol li:nth-child(1) {
  transition-delay: .1s;
  transform: translateX(60px);
}

.share.active ol li:nth-child(2) {
  transition-delay: .2s;
  transform: translateY(60px);
}

.share.active ol li:nth-child(3) {
  transition-delay: .3s;
  transform: translateX(-60px);
}

.share.active ol li:nth-child(4) {
  transition-delay: .4s;
  transform: translateY(-60px);
}

Step 7

Let's finish our share button by detecting the user's click to add or remove the active class.

JAVASCRIPT

const toggle = document.querySelector('.toggle');

toggle.addEventListener('click', () => {
  const shareBtn = document.querySelector('.share');
  shareBtn.classList.toggle('active');
});

When we click on the "share" button, we ask our browser to add the "active" class if it is present. Otherwise, we ask to remove it using toggle().

Want to Go Further

If you want to go further, for example, to position your button relative to other elements on your page, nothing is better than doing it with the incredible CSS Flexbox functionality.

Go take a look at our complete Flexbox guide to learn how to position your button.

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