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CSS

Posted by Anthony Conti
Anthony Conti
Courses Plus Student 2,213 Points

How do I get my 'back to top' button and my social icon away from each other?

I cant get my social icons and my back to top button off of the same line. I'm trying to figure out and move things around, but it doesnt move.

CODE:

CSS:

footer { font-size: 0.75em; text-align: center; clear: both; padding-top: 50px; color: #ccc; }

.social-icon { width: 20px; height: 20px; margin: 0 25px; } }

HTML:

<footer class="main-footer"> <a href="http://twitter.com/A_tone"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo" class="social-icon"></a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/anthony.conti.391"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo" class="social-icon"></a> <a href="#top">Back to top »</a>

1 Answer

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points 
#back-to-top {
  display:block; /* to put element on its own line */
  text-align:right; /* for some reason i think your back to top button would be on the right side */
}

EDIT: Oops, I thought your back to top link had an ID of top. I changed it to "#back-to-top" but you'd have to add that ID to the element in your html.

Anthony Conti
Anthony Conti
Courses Plus Student 2,213 Points

So I need to add a back to top ID in my HTML after entering this in my CSS?

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

Correct. So your new html would be:

<a href="http://twitter.com/A_tone"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/anthony.conti.391"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
<a id="back-to-top" href="#top">Back to top &raquo;</a>
Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

If your back-to-top link is a button and this approach doesn't work for you, you could adjust your html with doing anything to your css. Just wrap the back-to-top link in div tags to get the display:block effect without causing the link to be 100% of the screen width:

<a href="http://twitter.com/A_tone"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/anthony.conti.391"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
<div>
  <a href="#top">Back to top &raquo;</a>
</div>

I actually think this is a better approach.

Anthony Conti
Anthony Conti
Courses Plus Student 2,213 Points

Thank you I liked the div approach better too, and it worked. I appreciate the help!