How to Create Icon Bars with CSS

As a web developer or designer, you may find yourself in need of creating an icon bar for your website.

An icon bar is a collection of icons that are horizontally aligned and typically used as navigation.

In this tutorial, we will go through the process of creating an icon bar using CSS.

Step 1: HTML Structure

First, we will set up the HTML structure for our icon bar.

We will create a container element, such as a div, and within it, we will add individual icons as a elements.

Each a element should have a class name for styling and an href attribute for linking.

<div class="icon-bar">
  <a href="#" class="icon">
    <i class="fa fa-home"></i>
  </a>
  <a href="#" class="icon">
    <i class="fa fa-search"></i>
  </a>
  <a href="#" class="icon">
    <i class="fa fa-envelope"></i>
  </a>
  <a href="#" class="icon">
    <i class="fa fa-globe"></i>
  </a>
</div>

Step 2: Basic Styling

Next, we will add some basic styling to our icon bar.

We will set the container element to have a fixed width and height, and we will also set the a elements to have a fixed width and height.

We will also use the display: inline-block; property to make the a elements appear on the same line.

.icon-bar {
  width: 50px;
  height: 100%%;
  background-color: #333;
  position: fixed;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
}

.icon {
  width: 40px;
  height: 40px;
  display: inline-block;
  color: #fff;
}

Step 3: Icon Styling

We will also want to style the icons within our a elements.

We will use the font-size property to adjust the size of the icons and the text-align property to center them within the a element.

.icon i {
font-size: 20px;
text-align: center;
}

Step 4: Hover Effect

Finally, we will add a hover effect to our icon bar. We will use the :hover pseudo-class to change the background color of the a elements when the user hovers over them.