HTML: How to make a submit button with text + imag

Question

I would like to have a submit button which contains text and an image. Is this possible?

I can get the exact look I want with code that looks like:

<button type="button">
<img src="save.gif" alt="Save icon"/>
<br/>
Save
</button>

... but I haven't found a way to have one of those for my forms. Is there a way to do that with an

<input type="submit" ...> 

element? Or am I forced to go the image or text way? Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Let's say your image is a 16x16 .png icon called icon.png Use the power of CSS!

CSS:

input#image-button{
    background: #ccc url('icon.png') no-repeat top left;
    padding-left: 16px;
    height: 16px;
}

HTML:

<input type="submit" id="image-button" value="Text"></input>

This will put the image to the left of the text.

Answer 2

In case dingbats/icon fonts are an option, you can use them instead of images.

The following uses a combination of

• an icon font (e.g. Font Awesome),
• character encodings in HTML (e.g. &#xf090)
• the Unicode code point of the icon you want to use (e.g. &#xf090 for the sign in logo),
• CSS:

In HTML:

<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.2/css/bootstrap-combined.no-icons.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/3.2.1/css/font-awesome.css" rel="stylesheet">

<form name="signin" action="#" method="POST">
    <input type="text" name="text-input" placeholder="&#xf183; your username" class="stylish"/><br/>
    <input type="submit" value="&#xf090; sign in" class="stylish"/>
</form>

In CSS:

.stylish {
    font-family: georgia, FontAwesome;
}

jsFiddle

Notice the font-family specification: all characters/code points will use georgia, falling back to FontAwesome for any code points georgia doesn't provide characters for. georgia doesn't provide any characters in the private use range, exactly where FontAwesome has placed its icons.

Answer 3

Here is an other example:

<button type="submit" name="submit" style="border: none; background-color: white">

Answer 4

You can do this:

HTML code:

    <form action="submit.php" method="get" id="form">        
    <a href="javascript: submitForm()">        
    <img src="save.gif" alt="Save icon"/>        
    <br/>        
    save        
    </a>        
    </form>        

note: you can use and action and method of your choice and Id and any text starting from href="javascript: and ending to ()" but make sure that when I type the same things such as id and some text you type in your replacement in the same places(java script and HTML code).

java script code:

    var form=document.getElementById("form");        
    function submitForm()        
    {        
    form.submit();       
    }