how to space 4 images equally within a div? - html

Question

i have 4 social media buttons in a div and i want to space them equally but i can't figure out how to?
CSS
.socialbuttonstop {
height: 150px;
width: 35px;
margin-left: 915px;
position: absolute;
}
HTML
<div class="header">
<div class="headercontent">
<div class="socialbuttonstop">
<img src="Images/facebooksmall.png" />
<img src="Images/twittersmall.png" />
<img src="Images/googlesmall.png" />
<img src="Images/linkedinsmall.png" />
</div>
</div>
</div>

Answer 1

I would place a div around the images and place the height of the divs to 25%.
HTML
<div class="header">
<div class="headercontent">
<div class="socialbuttonstop">
<div class="social_btn">
<img src="Images/facebooksmall.png"/>
</div>
<div class="social_btn">
<img src="Images/twittersmall.png"/>
</div>
<div class="social_btn">
<img src="Images/googlesmall.png"/>
</div>
<div class="social_btn">
<img src="Images/linkedinsmall.png"/>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
.socialbuttonstop {
height: 150px;
width: 35px;
margin-left: 915px;
position: absolute;
}
.social_btn {
height: 25%;
}

Answer 2

If your container div is a fixed width here's what I usually do, assuming 48x48 icons:
HTML
<div id="social">
<img id="twitter" />
<img id="facebook" />
<img id="linkedin" />
</div>
CSS
#social {
width: 154px;
height: 48px;
}
#social img {
width: 48px;
height: 48px;
float: left;
margin-right: 5px;
background-image: url('icons.png');
background-position: 0px 0px;
}
#social img:last-child{
margin-right: 0px;
}
#social img#twitter {
background-position: -48px 0px;
}
#social img#facebook {
background-position: -96px 0px;
}
Then make a PNG file with just the icons without any padding

Answer 3

I only can think of the use of padding:
HTML:
<div>
<img class="imagePadding" src="Images/twittersmall.png"/>
<img class="imagePadding" src="Images/twittersmall.png"/>
<img class="imagePadding" src="Images/googlesmall.png"/>
<img class="imagePadding" src="Images/linkedinsmall.png"/>
</div>
CSS:
.imagePadding
{
padding: 10px;
}

Answer 4

For vertically centering the block please check the following fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/L4su9/3/
.socialbuttonstop
{
height: 150px;
width: 35px;
position: absolute;
top:50%;
margin:-75px 0 0 0;
/* negate top pixels =-"total height/2" */
background:#000;
}

Answer 5

Semantically you should have the HTML set up using an unordered list:
<ul>
<li class="facebook"><span>Facebook</span></li>
<li class="linkedin"><a href="#"><span>Linked In</span></li>
</ul>
CSS:
ul {
height: 150px;
width: 35px;
margin-left: 915px;
position: absolute;
display: block;
}
ul li {
display: block;
width: 35px;
height: 35px;
}
ul li a {
display: block;
background-image: url(facebookSmall.png) no-repeat center;
}
ul li a span {
display: none;
}
Quick explanation. Basically the unordered list tells the browser or someone who is blind that it is a list - which it is. It is a list of social media buttons.
The anchors allows the user to click and go to your Facebook/Linked In page while the span tags enable you to provide helpful text to Google/search engines and those who are blind.
Of course, you CAN still you use the original HTML code that you have but then you should at the least apply alt attributes to the images and consider linking them with parent anchors.
I think this is more than enough information to get you started. I don't think it's fair for me (or anyone else) to give you the complete code. That's the beauty of coding! Problem solving.