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HTML button Tag

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Example

A clickable button is marked up as follows:

button type= button Click Me! /button Try it Yourself

More "Try it Yourself" examples below.

Definition and Usage

The button tag defines a clickable button.

Inside a button element you can put text (and tags like i , b , strong , br , img , etc.). That is not possible with a button created with the input element!

Tip: Always specify the type attribute for a button element, to tell browsers what type of button it is.

Tip: You can easily style buttons with CSS! Look at the examples below or visit our CSS Buttons tutorial.

Browser Support

Element button Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Attributes

Attribute Value Description autofocus autofocus Specifies that a button should automatically get focus when the page loads disabled disabled Specifies that a button should be disabled form form_id Specifies which form the button belongs to formaction URL Specifies where to send the form-data when a form is submitted. Only for type= submit formenctype application/x-www-form-urlencoded
multipart/form-data
text/plain Specifies how form-data should be encoded before sending it to a server. Only for type= submit formmethod get
post Specifies how to send the form-data (which HTTP method to use). Only for type= submit formnovalidate formnovalidate Specifies that the form-data should not be validated on submission. Only for type= submit formtarget _blank
_self
_parent
_top
framename Specifies where to display the response after submitting the form. Only for type= submit popovertarget element_id Specifies a which popover element to invoke popovertargetaction hide
show
toggle Specifies what happens to the popover element when the button is clicked name name Specifies a name for the button type button
reset
submit Specifies the type of button value text Specifies an initial value for the button

Global Attributes

The button tag also supports the Global Attributes in HTML .

Event Attributes

The button tag also supports the Event Attributes in HTML .

More Examples

Example

Use CSS to style buttons:

!DOCTYPE html
html
head
style
.button {
border: none;
color: white;
padding: 15px 32px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
display: inline-block;
font-size: 16px;
margin: 4px 2px;
cursor: pointer;
}

.button1 {background-color: #04AA6D;} /* Green */
.button2 {background-color: #008CBA;} /* Blue */
/style
/head
body

button class= button button1 Green /button
button class= button button2 Blue /button

/body
/html Try it Yourself

Example

Use CSS to style buttons (with hover effect):

!DOCTYPE html
html
head
style
.button {
border: none;
color: white;
padding: 16px 32px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
display: inline-block;
font-size: 16px;
margin: 4px 2px;
transition-duration: 0.4s;
cursor: pointer;
}

.button1 {
background-color: white;
color: black;
border: 2px solid #04AA6D;
}

.button1:hover {
background-color: #04AA6D;
color: white;
}

.button2 {
background-color: white;
color: black;
border: 2px solid #008CBA;
}

.button2:hover {
background-color: #008CBA;
color: white;
}

/style
/head
body

button class= button button1 Green /button
button class= button button2 Blue /button

/body
/html Try it Yourself

Related Pages

HTML DOM reference: Button Object

CSS Tutorial: Styling Buttons

Default CSS Settings

None.

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