See in the video above how setting border: 0 removed the border in Chrome, but also the background? Not the case in Firefox: Here’s Chrome’s user agent stylesheet for buttons:įirefox behaves a bit differently. Buttons have their own font-family, so don’t inherit from the cascade unless you tell it to.This is essentially -webkit-appearance: button. Just by setting the font-size, we lose all those defaults, but it’s got a new default look, one with a border and square corners, a gradient background, and no box-shadow.Without any styling, the button is kinda little and has that native border/border-radius/box-shadow thing going on.Buttons are weird! They have a good amount of default styling (that come from the “User Agent Stylesheet”) that varies from browser to browser and means you have work to do to get them exactly how you want. It’s that styling that just might be the mental roadblock See the Pen Button Pal - some basic button styles by Andy Bell ( on CodePen. You’re also helping screen reader users out because it’ll announce the element correctly.Īnd here’s Andy again helping you out with a chunk of CSS that’ll get you a cleanly styled button: You see, when you use a, you get keyboard events for free. So, elements are a pain in the butt to style right? That doesn’t mean you should attach your JavaScript events to a or an though. Andy Bell explains why a real button is better: As in, they just reach for whatever generic, styling-free HTML is handy and build it up as needed. This is a bit surprising to me - but I hear it often enough to worry about it - is that more and more developers are using s for buttons. We’ll cover that a few ways.Īnother challenge is getting people to use them correctly One challenge is getting all those elements to look and layout exactly the same. Plus, for better or worse, people like having links that are styled to match the look of other true buttons on the site Button There are a variety of “buttons” in HTML.
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