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Creating CSS Buttons

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tgreer ( 204 ) (12/7/2004)

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With Cascading Style Sheets, you can turn ordinary hyperlinks into fully functional "buttons", without using JavaScript.

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Creating CSS Buttons

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Button 1 Button 2 Button 3

The Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) definition provides several so-called "pseudo-classes". These are classes that modify all occurences of a given style definition.

They take the form:

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selector:pseudo-class {property: value}

Anchor tags have four pseudo-classes:

1) link
2) visited
3) hover
4) active

The only one that perhaps needs further explanation is "active". It refers to a link in the process of being clicked. The mouse is "down", but hasn't yet been released.

By setting the background, spacing, and border properties of these pseudo-classes, you can make your hyperlinks look and behave like buttons.

The code is below:

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<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
a:link, a:visited
{
  float: left;
  margin: 2px 5px 2px 5px;
  padding: 2px;
  width: 100px;
  border-top: 1px solid #cccccc;
  border-bottom: 1px solid black;
  border-left: 1px solid #cccccc;
  border-right: 1px solid black;
  background: #cccccc;
  text-align: center;
  text-decoration: none;
  font: normal 10px Verdana;
  color: black;
}

a:hover
{
  background: #eeeeee;
}

a:active
{
  border-bottom: 1px solid #eeeeee;
  border-top: 1px solid black;
  border-right: 1px solid #eeeeee;
  border-left: 1px solid black;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<a href="#">Button 1</a><a href="#">Button 2</a><a href="#">Button 3</a>
</body>
</html>

Note: I defined a:link and a:visisted to share a style definition, because buttons don't change their appearance when they've been "visisted".

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