How can I do a hover effect for my social icons in css?

Question

I want to create a simple hover effect, I have a gray facebook, twitter and youtube image and when it gets hover i want to get the original color from the social media, that's all I want.

This is my html.

            <div class="social-top">

                <ul>
                    <li><a href=""><img src="images/social/fb.png"></a></li>
                    <li><a href=""><img src="images/social/twitter.png"></a></li>
                    <li><a href=""><img src="images/social/yt.png"></a></li>
                </ul>

            </div>

This is my css.

.social-top {
    width: 150px;
    padding-left: 650px;
}

.social-top li {

    display: inline-block;
    width: 40px;
}

.social-top a {
    display: block;
    overflow: hidden;
    height: 30px;
    position: absolute;
}

.social-top a:hover {
    top: 30px;
}

And here's a website that has the effect I want:

http://lalomacd.com.mx/2013/

Regards.

Answer 1

This is how you do it. You can place a transparent PNG in here for your links, instead of the text, if you want. Or you can check out using some font icon libraries, that use text to create a social media icon for you. For example, check out Fontello. http://fontello.com/

Here is the code I wrote for your effect:

    <div class="social-top">

    <ul>
        <li class="facebook"><a href="#self">F</a></li>
            <li class="twitter"><a href="#self">T</a></li>
                <li class="youtube"><a href="#self">YT</a></li>
    </ul>

</div>



.social-top {
   float: right;
 }

.social-top li {

display: inline-block;
width: 40px;
height: 40px;
background-color: #ccc;
border-radius: 150px;
}

.social-top li.facebook:hover {
background-color: #006;

}

.social-top li.twitter:hover {
   background-color: #060;

}

 .social-top li.youtube:hover {
  background-color: #600;

 }

.social-top li:hover a {
       color: #fff;
}

.social-top a {
 display: block;
   line-height: 40px;
   text-align: center;
   width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
 }

Here's the link to js fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/eNU8H/