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Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / CSS / May 2008Making a button look like a link
How close can you get to making a submit button look like a link? Answers to the inevitable questions: 1. Because I don't want my email address (which would have to be part of the URL in a real link) becoming obviously visible. 2. Because I'm limited for space and even a styled button takes too much room.  SignatureSteve Swift http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html http://www.ringers.org.uk > How close can you get to making a submit button look like a link? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > 2. Because I'm limited for space and even a styled button takes too much > room. http://nrkn.com/buttonLink/ >> How close can you get to making a submit button look like a link? > http://nrkn.com/buttonLink/ Thanks, Nik, that's close enough for me. For additional bonus points, is there any way to have that inherit the appearance of the user's preference when their links are not blue underlined? I know I'm being greedy, but if I don't ask, I won't get. I'll probably end up mixing these "forged" links and real links on the same page. The only way I can think to make them consistent is to impose my preference for link decoration on the users; something I'm reluctant to do. SignatureSteve Swift http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html http://www.ringers.org.uk >>> How close can you get to making a submit button look like a link? >> http://nrkn.com/buttonLink/ > > Thanks, Nik, that's close enough for me. For additional bonus points, is > there any way to have that inherit the appearance of the user's preference > when their links are not blue underlined? No. Maybe there is some way to get the browser's default link colour with JavaScript but there is no way to do that with just CSS. > I'll probably end up mixing these "forged" links and real links on the > same page. The only way I can think to make them consistent is to impose > my preference for link decoration on the users; something I'm reluctant to > do. What you're doing is dubious enough as it is :P Have you considered whether there are other ways to do this? For example have an ordinary submit button instead. Hide it with JavaScript and then just use a normal link which has its click event set to submit the page. The vast majority of people who have JavaScript will get the effect that you're after without diddling around trying to make a button look like a link and the rest will still get a perfectly good working page but one where the submit button looks like a submit button, and is that really such a terrible thing? Or style the submit button for them too and put up with having it be blue instead of their colour. > For example have an ordinary submit button instead. Hide it with > JavaScript and then just use a normal link which has its click event set > to submit the page. So many choices. Fortunately I wrote http://www.swiftys.org.uk/decisions last week with exactly this situation in mind (I've become indecisive for medical reasons). Thanks! SignatureSteve Swift http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html http://www.ringers.org.uk > So many choices. Fortunately I wrote http://www.swiftys.org.uk/decisions > last week with exactly this situation in mind (I've become indecisive > for medical reasons). That's the page forcing the user to be indecisive. There seems no mechanism to choose. Signaturedorayme > That's the page forcing the user to be indecisive. There seems no > mechanism to choose. There's no point wasting pixels/electrons on a "choose" button until you've entered at least two choices, and the copious online help makes this abundantly clear. :-) Even I can chose when faced with only one option. SignatureSteve Swift http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html http://www.ringers.org.uk > > That's the page forcing the user to be indecisive. There seems no > > mechanism to choose. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Even I can chose when faced with only one option. How stupid do you think I am? Don't answer that! I put in an alternative and I felt like Buridan's a.s with a modern technological twist, nothing but "add" was available to me. Signaturedorayme > In article <4840d9d...@news.greennet.net>, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > -- > dorayme Even with one option you still have a choice... Choose it, or NOT choose it... > > That's the page forcing the user to be indecisive. There seems no > > mechanism to choose. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Even I can chose when faced with only one option. OK, something with one of my browsers... apologies. But I have comments. Not ones that anyone will understand. But comments nevertheless. What is this "chose" business? Is this an American spelling? Or are you not providing for the future? Are you building in a logical clamp on freedom? Suppose that a user puts in 15 choices and he is staring at "Chose" which implies past tense in normal Australian. He thinks, well, f.ck it, I have not chosen anything, so he does not press the damn thing! He just what? He stares and makes no decision because he has no mechanism to do so on your page? By the way, there is never only one option. For every option that is a candidate of choice, there is doing it or not doing it. So there is a point in getting the button to appear when one option is entered. The choice then is for the user to press oit or not press it. Or, alternatively, - damned hell, it is you page - you cou could automatically generate the negation of single option and it appears as the explicit alternative. User types in "wear colourful clothes" and you then generate "*Don't* wear colourful clothes". And make the button come up. When an explicit second option is entered, you can remove the generated alternatives. Decision making devices are very important in human evolution. There is an argument that religions have usefully grown from a need to facilitate decisions independently of their truth. Signaturedorayme Scripsit Steve Swift: > How close can you get to making a submit button look like a link? Pretty close, on sunny days. > Answers to the inevitable questions: > > 1. Because I don't want my email address (which would have to be part > of the URL in a real link) becoming obviously visible. Then you are surely creating problems instead of solving any. > 2. Because I'm limited for space and even a styled button takes too > much room. That's ridiculous. Fix the problem of having painted yourself in a corner (creating the limitations you allude to) instead of hitting your head on the wall and spoiling your page any more. SignatureJukka K. Korpela ("Yucca") http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ |
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