I'm using ASP.NET, some of my buttons just do redirects. I'd rather they were ordinary links, but I don't want my users to notice much difference in the appearance. I considered images wrapped by anchors, i.e. tags, but I don't want to have to fire up an image editor every time I change the text on a button.
Apply this class to it
.button {
font: bold 11px Arial;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #EEEEEE;
color: #333333;
padding: 2px 6px 2px 6px;
border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
border-right: 1px solid #333333;
border-bottom: 1px solid #333333;
border-left: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
}
Example
Why not just wrap an anchor tag around a button element.
<button type="button">Text of Some Page</button>
This will work for IE9+, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and probably Opera.
IMHO, there is a better and more elegant solution. If your link is this:
Click me!!!
The corresponding button should be this:
<form method="GET" action="http://www.example.com">
<input type="submit" value="Click me!!!">
</form>
This approach is simpler because it uses simple html elements, so it will work in all the browsers without changing anything. Moreover, if you have styles for your buttons, this solution will apply the same styles to your new button for free.
The CSS3 appearance property provides a simple way to style any element (including an anchor) with a browser's built-in <button> styles:
a.btn {
-webkit-appearance: button;
-moz-appearance: button;
appearance: button;
}
<body>
<a class="btn">CSS Button</a>
</body>
CSS Tricks has a nice outline with more details on this. Keep in mind that no version of Internet Explorer currently supports this according to caniuse.com.
If you want nice button with rounded corners, then use this class:
.link_button {
-webkit-border-radius: 4px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
border-radius: 4px;
border: solid 1px #20538D;
text-shadow: 0 -1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.4), 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
-moz-box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.4), 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.4), 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
background: #4479BA;
color: #FFF;
padding: 8px 12px;
text-decoration: none;
}
Example
a {
display: block;
height: 20px;
width: auto;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
You can play with <a> tags like this if you give them a block display. You can adjust the border to give a shade like effect and the background color for that button feel :)
As TStamper said, you can just apply the CSS class to it and design it that way. As CSS improves the number of things that you can do with links has become extraordinary, and there are design groups now that just focus on creating amazing-looking CSS buttons for themes, and so forth.
For example, you can transitions with background-color using the -webkit-transition property and pseduo-classes. Some of these designs can get quite nutty, but it's providing a fantastic alternative to what might in the past have had to have been done with, say, flash.
For example (these are mind-blowing in my opinion),
http://tympanus.net/Development/CreativeButtons/ (this is a series of totally out-of-the-box animations for buttons, with source code on the originating page).
http://www.commentredirect.com/make-awesome-flat-buttons-css/ (along the same lines, these buttons have nice but minimalistic transition effects, and they make use of the new "flat" design style.)
You may do it with JavaScript:
Get CSS styles of real button with getComputedStyle(realButton).
Apply the styles to all your links.
/* javascript, after body is loaded */
'use strict';
{ // Namespace starts (to avoid polluting root namespace).
const btnCssText = window.getComputedStyle(
document.querySelector('.used-for-btn-css-class')
).cssText;
document.querySelectorAll('.btn').forEach(
(btn) => {
const _d = btn.style.display; // Hidden buttons should stay hidden.
btn.style.cssText = btnCssText;
btn.style.display = _d;
}
);
} // Namespace ends.
<body>
<h3>Button Styled Links</h3>
<button class="used-for-btn-css-class" style="display: none"></button>
first
second
<button>real button</button>
<script>/* You may put JS here. */</script>
</body>
You could create a standard button, then use it as the background image for a link. Then you can set the text in the link without changing the image.
The best solutions if you don't a special rendered button are the two already given by TStamper and Ólafur Waage.
This gets into the details of the css a bit more too, and gives you some images:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/item/css_square_buttons/
Much belated answer:
I've been wrestling with this on and off since I first started working in ASP. Here's the best I've come up with:
Concept: I create a custom control that has a tag. Then in the button I put an onclick event that sets document.location to the desired value with JavaScript.
I called the control ButtonLink, so that I could easily get if confused with LinkButton.
aspx:
<%# Control Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="ButtonLink.ascx.vb" Inherits="controls_ButtonLink" %>
<asp:Button runat="server" ID="button"/>
code behind:
Partial Class controls_ButtonLink
Inherits System.Web.UI.UserControl
Dim _url As String
Dim _confirm As String
Public Property NavigateUrl As String
Get
Return _url
End Get
Set(value As String)
_url = value
BuildJs()
End Set
End Property
Public Property confirm As String
Get
Return _confirm
End Get
Set(value As String)
_confirm = value
BuildJs()
End Set
End Property
Public Property Text As String
Get
Return button.Text
End Get
Set(value As String)
button.Text = value
End Set
End Property
Public Property enabled As Boolean
Get
Return button.Enabled
End Get
Set(value As Boolean)
button.Enabled = value
End Set
End Property
Public Property CssClass As String
Get
Return button.CssClass
End Get
Set(value As String)
button.CssClass = value
End Set
End Property
Sub BuildJs()
' This is a little kludgey in that if the user gives a url and a confirm message, we'll build the onclick string twice.
' But it's not that big a deal.
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(_url) Then
button.OnClientClick = Nothing
ElseIf String.IsNullOrEmpty(_confirm) Then
button.OnClientClick = String.Format("document.location='{0}';return false;", ResolveClientUrl(_url))
Else
button.OnClientClick = String.Format("if (confirm('{0}')) {{document.location='{1}';}} return false;", _confirm, ResolveClientUrl(_url))
End If
End Sub
End Class
Advantages of this scheme: It looks like a control. You write a single tag for it, <ButtonLink id="mybutton" navigateurl="blahblah"/>
The resulting button is a "real" HTML button and so looks just like a real button. You don't have to try to simulate the look of a button with CSS and then struggle with different looks on different browsers.
While the abilities are limited, you can easily extend it by adding more properties. It's likely that most properties would just have to "pass thru" to the underlying button, like I did for text, enabled and cssclass.
If anybody's got a simpler, cleaner or otherwise better solution, I'd be happy to hear it. This is a pain, but it works.
This is what I used. Link button is
<div class="link-button">Example</div>
CSS
/* body is sans-serif */
.link-button {
margin-top:15px;
max-width:90px;
background-color:#eee;
border-color:#888888;
color:#333;
display:inline-block;
vertical-align:middle;
text-align:center;
text-decoration:none;
align-items:flex-start;
cursor:default;
-webkit-appearence: push-button;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
border-radius: 5px;
font-size: 1em;
font-family: inherit;
border-color: #000;
padding-left: 5px;
padding-right: 5px;
width: 100%;
min-height: 30px;
}
.link-button a {
margin-top:4px;
display:inline-block;
text-decoration:none;
color:#333;
}
.link-button:hover {
background-color:#888;
}
.link-button:active {
background-color:#333;
}
.link-button:hover a, .link-button:active a {
color:#fff;
}
How about using asp:LinkButton?
You can do that - I made a linkbutton look like a standard button, using TStamper's entry. Underlining showed under the text when I hovered, though, in spite of the text-decoration: none setting.
I was able to stop the hover-underlining by adding style="text-decoration: none" within the linkbutton:
<asp:LinkButton
id="btnUpdate"
CssClass="btnStyleTStamper"
style="text-decoration: none"
Text="Update Items"
Onclick="UpdateGrid"
runat="server"
/>
By using border, color and background color properties you can create a button lookalike html link!
a {
background-color: white;
color: black;
padding: 5px;
text-decoration: none;
border: 1px solid black;
}
a:hover {
background-color: black;
color: white;
}
<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/
">Open StackOverflow</a>
Hope this helps :]
Use this class. It will make your link look the same as a button when applied using the button class on an a tag.
or
HERE IS ANOTHER DEMO JSFIDDLE
.button {
display: inline-block;
outline: none;
cursor: pointer;
border: solid 1px #da7c0c;
background: #478dad;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
font: 14px/100% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
padding: .5em 2em .55em;
text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.3);
-webkit-border-radius: .5em;
-moz-border-radius: .5em;
border-radius: .3em;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
}
.button:hover {
background: #f47c20;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#f88e11), to(#f06015));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #f88e11, #f06015);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#f88e11', endColorstr='#f06015');
}
.button:active {
position: relative;
top: 1px;
}
HTML
<a class="btn">Button</a>
CSS
background-color: #4CAF50; /* Green */
border: none;
color: white;
padding: 15px 32px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
display: inline-block;
font-size: 16px;
.button {
font: bold 11px Arial;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #EEEEEE;
color: #333333;
padding: 2px 6px 2px 6px;
border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
border-right: 1px solid #333333;
border-bottom: 1px solid #333333;
border-left: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
}
Example
I use an asp:Button:
<asp:Button runat="server"
OnClientClick="return location='targetPage', true;"
UseSubmitBehavior="False"
Text="Button Text Here"
/>
This way, the operation of the button is completely client-side and the button acts just like a link to the targetPage.
Use below snippet.
.a{
color: $brn-acc-clr;
background-color: transparent;
border-color: #888888;
&:hover:active{
outline: none;
color: #888888;
border-color: #888888;
}
&:fill{
background-color: #888888;
color: #fff;
box-shadow: 0 3px 10px rgba(#888888, 0.5);
&:hover:active{
color: #fff;
}
&:hover:not(:disabled){
transform: translateY(-2px);
background-color: darken(#888888, 4);
}
}
}
Simple button css now you can play around with your editor
a {
display: inline-block;
background: #000000c9;
color: #000;
padding: 12px 24px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 16px;
cursor: pointer;
}
a:hover {
background:#000
cursor: pointer;
transition: 0.3s ease-in;
}
Link tag
<a href="#">Hover me<a>
If you need some cool effect, hover and shadow; you can use this:
.button {
text-decoration: none;
padding: 15px 25px;
font-size: 24px;
cursor: pointer;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
outline: none;
color: #fff;
background-color: #450775;
border: none;
border-radius: 15px;
box-shadow: 0 9px #e1d5ed;
}
.button:hover {background-color: #220440}
.button:active {
background-color: #230545;
box-shadow: 0 5px #e1d5ed;
transform: translateY(4px);
}
This worked for me. It looks like a button and behaves like a link. You can bookmark it for example.
<a href="mypage.aspx?param1=1" style="text-decoration:none;">
<asp:Button PostBackUrl="mypage.aspx?param1=1" Text="my button-like link" runat="server" />
</a>
How about using asp:LinkButton?
Related
I'm using bootstrap to make some buttons containing images.
But when I click them, a strange horizontal line appears, as well as a dotted bounding box on FF.
i have tried outline: none;,but it doesn't change anything...
how can i re-arrange the html (or edit the css) to fix this? I don't want those boxes (especially the horizontal one in the middle)
thanks
html
<div class="button frontbutton col-md-4">
<a href="/tips">
<img src="url.png" class="buttonPic">
<span data-i18n="buttons.tips">Tips</span>
</a>
</div>
css
.frontbutton {
padding: 15px;
}
.button {
display: inline-block;
color: #444;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
background: rgba(210, 210, 210, 0.62);
box-shadow: 0 0 5px -1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
margin: 0px;
cursor: pointer;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: center;
}
a {
color: #199ACE;
outline: none;
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0,0,0,0);
}
img.buttonPic {
width: 95%;
}
thanks
https://jsfiddle.net/pLkyqz0x/
UPDATE
while making the fiddle, i noticed what caused the gray bar (box shadow on a:active)
but the red box on FF remains....
This is the a:focus { } style. So you can remove it by setting a:focus { outline: none; } however this is not considered best practice as the focus style is an accessibility requirement. You should instead redefine focus styles that work for you. (For further reading on why this is bad practice: http://www.outlinenone.com/)
Trying to style the error output on jquery.validate and I am not getting any success using Pseudo-elements in the css. Anyone ever have any success styling an error box with an arrow on the top with jquery.validate? Can get the box with the with arrow on top using normal CSS but not with jquery.validate?.
Used http://cssarrowplease.com/ to get the CSS (code below). Thanks
<style type="text/css">
label.error {
float: none;
color: red;
padding: .8em;
vertical-align:middle;
font-size:12px;
display: inline;
font-style:normal;
border: solid 1px #ccc;
border-radius: 4px;
background: #f8f8f8;
box-shadow: 0px 2px 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, .3);
}
label.error:after, label.error:before {
bottom: 100%;
left: 30%;
border: solid transparent;
content: " ";
height: 0;
width: 0;
position: absolute;
pointer-events: none;
}
label.error:after {
border-color: rgba(248, 248, 248, 0);
border-bottom-color: #f8f8f8;
border-width: 8px;
margin-left: -8px;
}
label.error:before {
border-color: rgba(204, 204, 204, 0);
border-bottom-color: #ccc;
border-width: 9px;
margin-left: -9px;
}
</style>
The reason your code is failing is because your trying to apply it to a <label> element.
The code you've linked to is applying the sample CSS to a <div> element, which is nothing like a <label>.
Use the errorElement option to force the jQuery Validate plugin to use <div> elements instead of label.
$('#myform').validate({
// your other options, rules, and callbacks
errorElement: 'div'
});
Don't forget to change label.error into div.error in all of your CSS rules.
You're going to need the specificity of div.error because the plugin also applies the error class to the input elements.
EDIT:
Since, by your own admission, you're "not an expert in CSS", why reinvent the wheel? You can easily combine jQuery Validate with a tooltip plugin, like Tooltipster, where all the difficult CSS tooltips are provided for you. See this question/answer and this demo.
I have isolated my input[type="submit"] in this JSFIDDLE.
The code as well,
input[type="submit"] {
width: 100%;
height: 40px;
background: #FFD100;
border-radius: 5px;
box-shadow: 0 5px 0 #A58B1E;
border: none;
font-size: 20px;
color: #2b2b2b;
cursor: pointer;
position: relative;
text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.6);
}
input[type="submit"]:active, input[type="submit"]:focus {
box-shadow: 0 3px 0 #A58B1E;
top: 2px;
outline: none;
}
Everything look great except, when I checked the site on my iphone. Since my client wanted a responsive website I figured this button I made would look great on every device.
Oh boy, I was so wrong because on my iphone the button is truly hideous. I am including an image to what the mobile view looks like and the url to the site.
Any ideas why this is happening or how I can override it?
(Chatfield Drilling Live Site)
You might be looking for:
-webkit-appearance: none;
You need to use -webkit-appearance:none in your button.
Also, if you have round corners at input fields you can use the following CSS:
input {
-webkit-border-radius:0;
}
I don't like the default button style. It's really boring. I am using
<input type="submit">
type buttons. Can I style these somehow in css? If not, the other way of doing it i guess would be to use a div instead, and make it a link. How do you make those work with forms?
You can achieve your desired through easily by CSS :-
HTML
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit Application" id="submit" />
CSS
#submit {
background-color: #ccc;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius:6px;
color: #fff;
font-family: 'Oswald';
font-size: 20px;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
border:none;
}
#submit:hover {
border: none;
background:red;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 1px #777;
}
DEMO
Yeah, it's pretty simple:
input[type="submit"]{
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid #000;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #000;
}
I recommend giving it an ID or a class so that you can target it more easily.
Yes you can target those specificaly using input[type=submit] e.g.
.myFormClass input[type=submit] {
margin: 10px;
color: white;
background-color: blue;
}
You can directly create your own style in this way:
input[type=button]
{
//Change the style as you like
}
You might want to add:
-webkit-appearance: none;
if you need it looking consistent on Mobile Safari...
write the below style into same html file head section or write into a .css file
<style type="text/css">
.submit input
{
color: #000;
background: #ffa20f;
border: 2px outset #d7b9c9
}
</style>
<input type="submit" class="submit"/>
.submit - in css . means class , so i created submit class with set of attributesand applied that class to the submit tag, using class attribute
So I was styling a contact form on my website
And I ren into an issue with "Send button", for some reason has margin/is aligned more to the right than needed. You can see that in other 2 sections brown buttons are aligned correctly, but in third contact section that brown send button is aligned more to the right than needed, I have no idea on what is causing it...
Here is css that affects that button (button has id="msgSend"):
.inner-trio a, #msgSend {
color: #fff;
padding: 3px 0;
margin: 7px;
display: block;
border-radius: 5px 5px 6px 6px;
background-color: #6a2c10;
text-shadow: 1px 1px #471d0a;
text-align: center;
border-bottom: 4px solid #381201;
}
.inner-trio a:hover, #msgSend:hover {
background-color: #853815;
border-bottom: 4px solid #5b2005;
cursor: pointer !important;
}
.inner-trio a:active, #msgSend:active {
background-color: #6a2c10;
border-bottom: none;
margin-top: 11px;
}
The problem is that you define margin:7px to your form & input. If you want desire result then write like this:
input[type="submit"]{
margin-left:0;
}
Easiest way to solve this should be, to add:
#msgSend { margin: 0px;}
to your css.
You have the width of all input elements set to 100% plus you have 7px margin on your input button. There's your problem :)