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CSS

Posted by jdh
jdh
12,334 Points

Sticky Footer Styling: Navigation Icons Alignment

I'm trying to style a sticky footer in CSS using bootstrap 3. I would like to have three icons in the footer that are centered. I cant figure out how to center these as Im using float: left and in-line block. I've tried setting the one div w the class="row" to include "center-block" and each individual icons. 

    <div class="row center-block">
    <div class="footer">
        <div class="col-xs-12">
                    <div><a href="#" target="_top"><div class="prev_button"></div></a></div>
                <div><a href="#" target="_top"><div class="home_button"></div></a></div>
                <div><a href="#" target="_top"><div class="next_button"></div></a></div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
    ``` 

  ```css

.footer {
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 60px;
  background-color: transparent;
}

.home_button, .prev_button, .next_button {
    width: 47px;
    height: 41px;
    background-position: center;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    float: left;
    display: inline-block;
    background-color: transparent;
    margin: 0 auto;

}

    /*  Normal & Hover States */
        .home_button {
            background-image:url(../img/home.hover.png);
                border-bottom:1px solid #C6C8CA;
                border-top:1px solid #C6C8CA;
        }

        .home_button:hover {
                background-image:url(../img/home.png);
                background-color: #E87511;
        }

        .prev_button {
                background-image:url(../img/prev.hover.png);
                border-bottom:1px solid #C6C8CA;
                border-top:1px solid #C6C8CA;
                border-left: 1px solid #c6c8ca;
                -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px;
                -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 0px;
                -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 0px;
                -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 5px;
        }

        .prev_button:hover {
                background-image:url(../img/prev.png);
                background-color: #E87511;
                -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px;
                -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 0px;
                -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 0px;
                -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 5px;
        }

        .next_button {
            background-image:url(../img/next.hover.png);
            border-bottom:1px solid #C6C8CA;
                border-top:1px solid #C6C8CA;
                border-right: 1px solid #c6c8ca;
                -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px;
                -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 5px;
        }

        .next_button:hover {
            background-image:url(../img/next.png);
                background-color: #E87511;
                    -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px;
            -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 5px;
        }
    ```

2 Answers

jdh
jdh
12,334 Points

got it!

in case anyone is interested i just made it an unordered list and then added the below 

            li {
  display: inline-block;
}

ul {
    list-style: none;
    text-align: center;
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding: 0;
    width: 100%;
}

.home_button, .prev_button, .next_button {
    width: 47px;
    height: 41px;
    background-position: center;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    display: inline-block;
    background-color: transparent;
    margin: 0 auto;

}

            ```
eck
eck
43,038 Points
eck
eck
43,038 Points

If you add these rules to your styles, I believe you will get the result you are looking for.

.footer { text-align: center; }
.col-xs-12 { display: inline-block; }
jdh
jdh
12,334 Points

unfortunately that didnt work. any other suggestions. appreciate the help