Remove the complete styling of an HTML button/submit

Question

Is there a way of completely removing the styling of a button in Internet Explorer? I use a css sprite for my button, and everything looks ok.

But when I click the

Answer 1

Try removing the border from your button:

input, button, submit
{
  border:none;
}

Answer 2

Your question says "Internet Explorer," but for those interested in other browsers, you can now use all: unset on buttons to unstyle them.

It doesn't work in IE, but it's well-supported everywhere else.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-all

Old Safari color warning: Setting the text color of the button after using all: unset can fail in Safari 13.1, due to a bug in WebKit. (The bug is fixed in Safari 14 and up.) "all: unset is setting -webkit-text-fill-color to black, and that overrides color." If you need to set text color after using all: unset, be sure to set both the color and the -webkit-text-fill-color to the same color.

Accessibility warning: For the sake of users who aren't using a mouse pointer, be sure to re-add some :focus styling, e.g. button:focus { outline: orange auto 5px } for keyboard accessibility.

And don't forget cursor: pointer. all: unset removes all styling, including the cursor: pointer, which makes your mouse cursor look like a pointing hand when you hover over the button. You almost certainly want to bring that back.

button {
  all: unset;
  color: blue;
  -webkit-text-fill-color: blue;
  cursor: pointer;
}

button:focus {
  outline: orange 5px auto;
}

<button>check it out</button>

Answer 3

I think it's the button "active" state.

Answer 4

In bootstrap 4 is easiest. You can use the classes: bg-transparent and border-0

Answer 5

I think this provides a more thorough approach:

button, input[type="submit"], input[type="reset"] {
	background: none;
	color: inherit;
	border: none;
	padding: 0;
	font: inherit;
	cursor: pointer;
	outline: inherit;
}

<button>Example</button>

Answer 6

I'm assuming that when you say 'click the button, it moves to the top a little' you're talking about the mouse down click state for the button, and that when you release the mouse click, it returns to its normal state? And that you're disabling the default rendering of the button by using:

input, button, submit { border:none; } 

If so..

Personally, I've found that you can't actually stop/override/disable this IE native action, which led me to change my markup a little to allow for this movement and not affect the overall look of the button for the various states.

This is my final mark-up:

<span class="your-button-class">
    <span>
        <input type="Submit" value="View Person">
    </span>
</span>