{"id":1238,"date":"2010-03-09T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T01:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2010-06-08T22:09:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T12:09:02","slug":"how-to-style-a-submit-button-in-css-example-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/2010\/03\/09\/how-to-style-a-submit-button-in-css-example-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to style a Submit button in CSS &#8211; Example 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/contact-us-today.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Contact us today!\" width=\"247\" height=\"86\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1241\" \/><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/graphicriver.net\/item\/premium-web-20-call-to-action-buttons\/80703?ref=eisabai\" target=\"_blank\">web 2.0 style call-to-action buttons<\/a> can be purchased in psd format from graphic river<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Since writing <a href=\"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/2009\/04\/24\/how-to-style-a-submit-button-in-css\/\">How to style a Submit button in CSS<\/a> a few months ago, I have found an alternative way to achieve the same result.   In this example, we will be using <code>&lt;button&gt;<\/code> tag instead of <code>&lt;input&gt;<\/code> tag.    The <code>&lt;button&gt;<\/code> tag will still submit the form that it belongs to when clicked because the type of the button is set as <code>submit<\/code>.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>HTML<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>&lt;button id=&quot;button&quot; name=&quot;button&quot; type=&quot;submit&quot;&gt;\r\n&lt;span&gt;Contact us today!&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/button&gt;<\/pre>\n<p><strong>CSS<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>#button {\r\n\tbackground: transparent url(contact.gif) 0 0 no-repeat;\r\n\tborder: none;\r\n\tcursor: pointer;\r\n\twidth: 180px;\r\n\theight: 50px;\r\n}\r\n\r\n#button span {\r\n\tdisplay: none;\r\n}<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>web 2.0 style call-to-action buttons can be purchased in psd format from graphic river Since<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-css","category-snippets","category-xhtml"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to style a Submit button in CSS - Example 2 | Tech Leadership Advice &amp; 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