Push My Button
September 28th, 2006 by Jerome Dahdah
Seriously, styling <input> buttons can be a pain. Browsers offer you little control, Safari even completely ignores your styles. There is an alternative, however, that I admit I’ve never really taken into consideration. The <button>. This little fellow is pretty versatile, working as you would expect from an <input>, and allowing you to make it look whichever way you want.
Unlike the
input-based buttons, the majority of browsers do not force any particular design on thebuttonelement, leaving it a raw ingot which we can cast and shape to our liking.
Aaron Gustafson writes all about it on Digital Web Magazine.
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