How to make a input submit button with flat look? - html

Question

Here I have a submit button:
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
And I want to add some additional styles to make it a flat look:
input {
border: 0;
background: none;
-webkit-appearance: none;
}
This is how it looks afterwards:
However, if you look carefully, there is still some border on the top of the submit button......
Is there some way to remove the sunken or raised surface and make it a plain flat look?

Answer 1

You will need to set border, box-shadow and background to 0/none to remove any greyish appearance as seen on button. Then to remove the rounded corners set border-radius to 0px.
Rules are :
input[type="submit"]
/* Or better yet try giving an ID or class if possible*/
{
border: 0;
background: none;
box-shadow: none;
border-radius: 0px;
}

Answer 2

outline: none; would be my first guess.
And also you would probably want to remove the :focus state and :hover state as so
input[type="submit"]:focus {
background:none;
outline: none;
border:none;
}
input[type="submit"]:hover {
background: none;
border: none;
outline: none;
box-shadow: none;
}
this makes it so when it is pressed, it won't have an emphasized outline.
if it doesn't work try removing other styles such as box-shadow:none;, border-radius:none;.

Answer 3

I see that the button corners are rounded. Maybe this is caused by other styles that affecting it. Try to remove the border-radius like this:
input {
border: 0;
border-radius: 0;
background: none;
-webkit-appearance: none;
}
If that didn't solve the issue, then you need to check what style that is adding the top border. You can try using CSS !important with the border declaration(not recommended btw) :
input {
border: 0 !important;
border-radius: 0;
background: none;
-webkit-appearance: none;
}

Answer 4

input {
border: 0 none hlsa(0,0%,0%,0);
outline: 0 none hlsa(0,0%,0%,0);
box-shadow: none;
background: none;
-webkit-appearance: none;
}
Even though outline isn't a browser default (AFAIK), in Bootstrap (if your'e using it or another simular framework) outline is applied even though it's not showing in computed style. I'm still looking for that question concerning that. Btw, I didn't add border-radius because I figure you might want rounded corners, and it shouldn't be a problem.