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

问题:

Basically, I like the way that <input type="submit"> is styled, with the clickable button when you add a little CSS. However, regular buttons are not styled as such, they have no such clickability without some major CSS or JS, and you have to use images.

I made submit buttons into links, by using the form action, but this requires me to make a new form for each button. How can I find a happy medium? Using multiple forms is causing problems in my styling that I can't seem to fix unless I find another way to make buttons that are links in HTML, that have a default style that makes them have a pressed state (and I don't mean browser default settings).

Any ideas?

回答1:

<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>

回答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.

回答3:

IMPORTANT: <button> should never be a descendent of <a>.

Try <a href="http://stackoverflow.com"><button>Link Text</button></a> in any html validator like https://validator.w3.org and you'll get an error. There's really no point in using a button if you're not using the button. Just style the <a> with css to look like a button. If you're using a framework like Bootstrap, you could apply the button style(s) btn, btn-primary etc.

jsfiddle : button styled link

.btnStack {
  font-family: Oswald;
  background-color: orange;
  color: white;
  text-decoration: none;
  display: inline-block;
  padding: 6px 12px;
  margin-bottom: 0;
  font-size: 14px;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 1.428571429;
  text-align: center;
  white-space: nowrap;
  vertical-align: middle;
  cursor: pointer;
  border: 1px solid transparent;
  border-radius: 4px;
  -webkit-user-select: none;
  -moz-user-select: none;
  -ms-user-select: none;
  -o-user-select: none;
  user-select: none;
}

a.btnStack:hover {
  background-color: #000;
}

<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald:400' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<a href="http://stackoverflow.com" class="btnStack">stackoverflow.com</a>

回答4:

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!

回答5:

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>

回答6:

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;
};