Making a <button> that's a link in HTML

Question

Basically, I like the way that is styled, with the clickable button when you add a little CSS. However, regular buttons are not st

Answer 1

A little bit easier and it looks exactly like the button in the form. Just use the input and wrap the anchor tag around it.

<a href="#"><input type="button" value="Button Text"></a>

Answer 2

You have three options:

• Style links to look like buttons using CSS.

  Just look at the light blue "tags" under your question.

  It is possible, even to give them a depressed appearance when clicked (using pseudo-classes like :active), without any scripting. Lots of major sites, such as Google, are starting to make buttons out of CSS styles these days anyway, scripting or not.

• Put a separate <form> element around each one.

  As you mentioned in the question. Easy and will definitely work without Javascript (or even CSS). But it adds a little extra code which may look untidy.

• Rely on Javascript.

  Which is what you said you didn't want to do.

Answer 3

<a id="reset-authenticator" asp-page="./ResetAuthenticator"><input type="button" class="btn btn-primary" value="Reset app" /></a>

Answer 4

The 3 easiest ways IMHO are

1: you create an image of a button and put a href around it. (Not a good way, you lose flexibility and will provide a lot of difficulties and problems.)

2 (The easiest one) -> JQuery

<input type="submit" someattribute="http://yoururl/index.php">

  $('button[type=submit] .default').click(function(){
     window.location = $(this).attr("someattribute");
     return false; //otherwise it will send a button submit to the server

   });  

3 (also easy but I prefer previous one):

<INPUT TYPE=BUTTON OnClick="somefunction("http://yoururl");return false" VALUE="somevalue">

$fn.somefunction= function(url) {
    window.location = url;
};

Answer 5

<a href="#"><button>Link Text</button></a>

You asked for a link that looks like a button, so use a link and a button :-) This will preserve default browser button styling. The button by itself does nothing, but clicking it activates its parent link.

Demo:

<a href="http://stackoverflow.com"><button>Link Text</button></a>

Answer 6

Use javascript:

<button onclick="window.location.href='/css_page.html'">CSS page</button>

You can always style the button in css anyaways. Hope it helped!

Good luck!