CSS3 Social Icons With Tooltip Hover

Social Media plays a vital role in engaging more readership to your blog, thus indirectly helps you to increase the traffic of your blog. Today there are lot's of social networking sites but among all them only three four of them are prime i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc.

Today we are going to see a tutorial that how to install a CSS3 powered Social Media Widgets. For developers and designers it would be easily recollectable that before such widgets were created using hover and background CSS2 property.

But now we can prepare such widgets easily using some pseudo CSS3 properties likecontent:after, content:before etc. Below is a example of such widget created using only CSS3 properties. One of the advantage of such widgets is also that it decreases the load time of your blog-page whcih is a positive factor for SEO.

■ Open Blog Dashboard → Layout → Add a Gadget

■ Then HTML/Javascript Editor

■ Now add below Given code in it.

HTML & CSS

<div class="container">
<ul class="action-bar clearfix">
<li>
<a href="http://twitter.com/TWITTERHANDLE" class="like">
<span class="zocial-twitter"></span>
<span class="tooltip">Follow</span>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://plus.google.com/GOOGLEPLUSID" class="favourite">
<span class="zocial-googleplus"></span>
<span class="tooltip">Circle us</span>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/FBID" class="comment">
<span class="zocial-facebook"></span>
<span class="tooltip">Like us</span>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" class="share">
<span class="zocial-rss"></span>
<span class="tooltip">Subscribe</span>
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>

<style>
@charset "utf-8";
@import url(http://weloveiconfonts.com/api/?family=zocial);
/* zocial */
[class*="zocial-"]:before {
  font-family: 'zocial', sans-serif;
}
/* ---------- GENERAL ---------- */

a { text-decoration: none; }
ul {
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.clearfix { *zoom: 1; }
.clearfix:before, .clearfix:after {
content: "";
display: table; }
.clearfix:after { clear: both; }
.container {
display: block;
height: 64px;
position: relative;
width: 256px;
}
/* ---------- Action Bar ---------- */
.action-bar li {
float: left;
}
.action-bar a {
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 -2px rgba(0, 0, 0, .5);
box-shadow: inset 0 -2px rgba(0, 0, 0, .5);
color: #e7e7e7;
display: block;
font-size: 32px;
height: 64px;
line-height: 64px;
position: relative;
text-align: center;
-webkit-transition: background .3s;
-moz-transition: background .3s;
-ms-transition: background .3s;
-o-transition: background .3s;
transition: background .3s;
width: 64px;
}
.action-bar a:hover .tooltip {
margin-top: 16px;
opacity: 1;
}
.tooltip {
border-radius: 3px;
font-size: 14px;
height: 28px;
left: 50%;
line-height: 28px;
margin: 0 0 0 -50px;
opacity: 0;
position: absolute;
top: 100%;
-webkit-transition: margin-top .3s, opacity .3s;
-moz-transition: margin-top .3s, opacity .3s;
-ms-transition: margin-top .3s, opacity .3s;
-o-transition: margin-top .3s, opacity .3s;
transition: margin-top .3s, opacity .3s;
width: 100px;
}
.tooltip:before {
content: "";
height: 8px;
left: 50%;
margin: -4px 0 0 -4px;
position: absolute;
-webkit-transform: rotate(45deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(45deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(45deg);
-o-transform: rotate(45deg);
transform: rotate(45deg);
width: 8px;
}
.like,
.like .tooltip,
.like .tooltip:before { background: #65B1F8; }
.like:hover { background: #65B1F8; }
.favourite,
.favourite .tooltip,
.favourite .tooltip:before { background: #c93037; }
.favourite:hover { background: #b02b32; }
.comment,
.comment .tooltip,
.comment .tooltip:before { background: #43438e; }
.comment:hover { background: #393978; }
.share,
.share .tooltip,
.share .tooltip:before { background: #FF8000; }
.share:hover { background: #FF8000; }
</style>