Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons

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.

Demo

View the demo here

Usage

1. Link to the css file in header:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/rrssb.css" />

2. 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">
    <a href="mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20how%20ridiculously%20responsive%20these%20social%20buttons%20are&amp;body=http%3A%2F%2Fkurtnoble.com%2Flabs%2Frrssb%2Findex.html">
      <span class="rrssb-icon"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="28" height="28" 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">
    <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" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid" width="29" height="29" 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"
          class="cls-2" fill-rule="evenodd"/></svg>
      </span>
      <span class="rrssb-text">facebook</span>
    </a>
  </li>  
  <li class="rrssb-twitter">
    <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" width="28" height="28" viewBox="0 0 28 28"><path d="M24.253 8.756C24.69 17.08 18.297 24.182 9.97 24.62c-3.122.162-6.22-.646-8.86-2.32 2.702.18 5.375-.648 7.507-2.32-2.072-.248-3.818-1.662-4.49-3.64.802.13 1.62.077 2.4-.154-2.482-.466-4.312-2.586-4.412-5.11.688.276 1.426.408 2.168.387-2.135-1.65-2.73-4.62-1.394-6.965C5.574 7.816 9.54 9.84 13.802 10.07c-.842-2.738.694-5.64 3.434-6.48 2.018-.624 4.212.043 5.546 1.682 1.186-.213 2.318-.662 3.33-1.317-.386 1.256-1.248 2.312-2.4 2.942 1.048-.106 2.07-.394 3.02-.85-.458 1.182-1.343 2.15-2.48 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, nest rrssb-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.
• Optionally, all share meta and links can be configured in rrssb.js

3. Link to javascript files at the bottom of your document before the closing body tag for best results. (jQuery CDN, jQuery fallback, and rrssb.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>

Other install options:

Service	Link
Bower	bower install rrssb
Rails *	Rails Setup by @rimkashox
Wordpress *	Wordpress plugin by @aarreedd
Drupal *	Drupal Install Instructions
CDN *	OSSCDN by MaxCDN

* Managed by 3rd parties. Please contact project hosts for support.

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

Version Notes

Version	Note	Issue(s)	Backwards compatible?
1.8.0	Shiny new gulp/browser-sync dev environment /via @connorwyatt, updated Facebook icon, fixed TypeError: $ in js /via @QWp6t .	(#93), (#97)	✓
1.7.6	Fixed an issue where icon hit areas were breaking out of containers	(#94)	✓
1.7.5	Flexible Large Format icons text-size based on sibling count. Switched to MIT license.	(#18)	✓
1.7.2	Better calc detection & fallback /via @IanCaunce	(#89)	✓
1.7	Javascript Meta attributes as variables /via @aicarlson	(#47)	✓
1.6.5	Namespace CSS classes - Legacy HTML will be incompatible until class names updated.	(#42)	✕

Contributing

Thanks for helping! Please use dev branch for all pull requests.

Setup:

• Make sure gulp is installed globally: npm install -g gulp (May require sudo.)
• run npm install to install the dependencies for this project.
• run gulp to create a local server at localhost:3000 and watch for file changes.

About

RRSSB is a KNI Labs freebie crafted by @dbox and @joshuatuscan.