Love them or hate them, social sharing buttons appear to be with us for a while. It seemed like we were constantly making custom buttons for every single project, so we decided to create a super flexible system that would work in any container.
RRSSB is built with SASS, so you can easily customize it by tweaking a few variables. SVGs allow for tiny file size and retina support. Add or remove icons as you see fit -- the rest will fill in automagically in the container.
- Copy css to your document or link to the css file in header:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/rrssb.css" />
- Copy
.rrssb-buttons
unordered list to desired location(s):
<!-- Buttons start here. Copy this ul to your document. -->
<ul class="rrssb-buttons clearfix">
<li class="rrssb-email">
<!-- Replace subject with your message using URL Endocding: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ -->
<a href="mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20how%20ridiculously%20responsive%20these%20social%20buttons%20are&body=http%3A%2F%2Fkurtnoble.com%2Flabs%2Frrssb%2Findex.html">
<span class="rrssb-icon"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 28 28"><path d="M20.11 26.147c-2.335 1.05-4.36 1.4-7.124 1.4C6.524 27.548.84 22.916.84 15.284.84 7.343 6.602.45 15.4.45c6.854 0 11.8 4.7 11.8 11.252 0 5.684-3.193 9.265-7.398 9.3-1.83 0-3.153-.934-3.347-2.997h-.077c-1.208 1.986-2.96 2.997-5.023 2.997-2.532 0-4.36-1.868-4.36-5.062 0-4.75 3.503-9.07 9.11-9.07 1.713 0 3.7.4 4.6.972l-1.17 7.203c-.387 2.298-.115 3.3 1 3.4 1.674 0 3.774-2.102 3.774-6.58 0-5.06-3.27-8.994-9.304-8.994C9.05 2.87 3.83 7.545 3.83 14.97c0 6.5 4.2 10.2 10 10.202 1.987 0 4.09-.43 5.647-1.245l.634 2.22zM16.647 10.1c-.31-.078-.7-.155-1.207-.155-2.572 0-4.596 2.53-4.596 5.53 0 1.5.7 2.4 1.9 2.4 1.44 0 2.96-1.83 3.31-4.088l.592-3.72z"/></svg></span>
<span class="rrssb-text">email</span>
</a>
</li>
<li class="rrssb-facebook">
<!-- Replace with your URL. For best results, make sure you page has the proper FB Open Graph tags in header: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/howtos/maximizing-distribution-media-content/ -->
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://kurtnoble.com/labs/rrssb/index.html" class="popup">
<span class="rrssb-icon"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 29 29"><path d="M26.4 0H2.6C1.714 0 0 1.715 0 2.6v23.8c0 .884 1.715 2.6 2.6 2.6h12.393V17.988h-3.996v-3.98h3.997v-3.062c0-3.746 2.835-5.97 6.177-5.97 1.6 0 2.444.173 2.845.226v3.792H21.18c-1.817 0-2.156.9-2.156 2.168v2.847h5.045l-.66 3.978h-4.386V29H26.4c.884 0 2.6-1.716 2.6-2.6V2.6c0-.885-1.716-2.6-2.6-2.6z"/></svg></span>
<span class="rrssb-text">facebook</span>
</a>
</li>
<li class="rrssb-twitter">
<!-- Replace href with your Meta and URL information -->
<a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Ridiculously%20Responsive%20Social%20Sharing%20Buttons%20by%20%40dbox%20and%20%40joshuatuscan%3A%20http%3A%2F%2Fkurtnoble.com%2Flabs%2Frrssb%20%7C%20http%3A%2F%2Fkurtnoble.com%2Flabs%2Frrssb%2Fmedia%2Frrssb-preview.png"
class="popup">
<span class="rrssb-icon"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 28 28"><path d="M24.253 8.756C24.69 17.08 18.297 24.182 9.97 24.62a15.093 15.093 0 0 1-8.86-2.32c2.702.18 5.375-.648 7.507-2.32a5.417 5.417 0 0 1-4.49-3.64c.802.13 1.62.077 2.4-.154a5.416 5.416 0 0 1-4.412-5.11 5.43 5.43 0 0 0 2.168.387A5.416 5.416 0 0 1 2.89 4.498a15.09 15.09 0 0 0 10.913 5.573 5.185 5.185 0 0 1 3.434-6.48 5.18 5.18 0 0 1 5.546 1.682 9.076 9.076 0 0 0 3.33-1.317 5.038 5.038 0 0 1-2.4 2.942 9.068 9.068 0 0 0 3.02-.85 5.05 5.05 0 0 1-2.48 2.71z"/></svg></span>
<span class="rrssb-text">twitter</span>
</a>
</li>
</ul>
<!-- Buttons end here -->
- Only copy the
<li>
s of the buttons you want (index.html has examples of all available types). - Adding a class of
popup
to the anchor tag for each share button will make the share dialog open in a popup, rather than a new window. (Good for Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, etc.) - Buttons will automatically flow to the size of the ul
rrssb-buttons
. If fixed sized buttons are needed, nestrrssb-buttons
in a fixed-width container. - Each sharing URL requires various parameters that allow you to pass through messaging in the sharing dialog. A useful tool for URI escaping any messaging that needs to pass through the share URL can be found here.
- Alternatively, all share metadata and links can be configured using Javascript
- Copy
rrssb.min.js
to your document or link to javascript files at the bottom of your page (before the closing body tag for best results - jQuery CDN, jQuery fallback, andrrssb.min.js
):
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="js/vendor/jquery.1.10.2.min.js"><\/script>')</script>
<script src="js/rrssb.min.js"></script>
Optional: Configure URL and share text with javascript:
Instead of editing each href
by hand, you can call some Javascript to set the URLs on each social button automatically.
Note: to support users who have disabled Javascript, you still need to edit the href
s by hand.
Paste the following before the closing body tag, after the scripts you added in the last section:
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function ($) {
$('.rrssb-buttons').rrssb({
// required:
title: 'This is the email subject and/or tweet text',
url: 'http://kurtnoble.com/labs/rrssb/',
// optional:
description: 'Longer description used with some providers',
emailBody: 'Usually email body is just the description + url, but you can customize it if you want'
});
});
</script>
Service | Link |
---|---|
npm | npm install rrssb |
bower | bower install rrssb |
Rails * | Rails Setup by @rimkashox |
Wordpress * | https://wordpress.org/plugins/rrssb/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsso-rrssb/ |
Drupal * | Drupal Install Instructions |
CDN * | OSSCDN by MaxCDN |
* Managed by 3rd parties. Please contact project hosts for support.
Currently tested between 140px and 15,465px on current versions of Chrome 33, Safari 7.0.2, Firefox 27, Opera 20, and IE9+.
Requires SVG
Thanks for helping! Pull requests are welcomed.
- Make sure gulp is installed globally:
npm install -g gulp
(May requiresudo
.) - run
npm install
to install the dependencies for this project. - run
gulp
to create a local server atlocalhost:3000
and watch for file changes.
RRSSB is a KNI Labs freebie crafted by @dbox and @joshuatuscan.