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Direct link to the article Styling Buttons in WordPress Block Themes
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Styling Buttons in WordPress Block Themes

A little while back, Ganesh Dahal penned a post here on CSS-Tricks responding to a tweet that asked about adding CSS box shadows on WordPress blocks and elements. There’s a lot of great stuff in there that leverages new features …

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Fränk Klein on Jan 9, 2023 (Updated on Feb 6, 2023)
Direct link to the article Buttons vs. Links
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Buttons vs. Links

There are thousands of articles out there about buttons and links on the web; the differences and how to use them properly. Hey, I don’t mind. I wrote my own as well¹.

It’s such a common mistake on …

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Chris Coyier on Nov 1, 2021
Direct link to the article CSS-ing Candy Ghost Buttons
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CSS-ing Candy Ghost Buttons

Recently, while looking for some ideas on what to code as I have zero artistic sense so the only thing I can do is find pretty things that other people have come up with and remake them with clean and …

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Ana Tudor on Oct 31, 2021
Direct link to the article When a Click is Not Just a Click
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When a Click is Not Just a Click

The click event is quite simple and easy to use; you listen for the event and run code when the event is fired. It works on just about every HTML element there is, a core feature of the DOM API.…

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Travis Almand on Jun 30, 2021 (Updated on Jul 18, 2021)
Direct link to the article Making Disabled Buttons More Inclusive
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Making Disabled Buttons More Inclusive

Let’s talk about disabled buttons. Specifically, let’s get into why we use them and how we can do better than the traditional disabled attribute in HTML (e.g. <button disabled> ) to mark a button as disabled.

There are lots of …

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Sandrina Pereira on May 12, 2021 (Updated on May 24, 2022)
Direct link to the article How to Recreate the Ripple Effect of Material Design Buttons
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How to Recreate the Ripple Effect of Material Design Buttons

When I first discovered Material Design, I was particularly inspired by its button component. It uses a ripple effect to give users feedback in a simple, elegant way.

How does this effect work? Material Design’s buttons don’t just sport …

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Bret Cameron on Oct 12, 2020 (Updated on Oct 14, 2020)
Direct link to the article How to Make an Unobtrusive Scroll-to-Top Button
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How to Make an Unobtrusive Scroll-to-Top Button

A button to return to the top of the page allows the user to quickly return to the top of the page without making too much effort. This can be very useful when the page has a lot of content …

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Marcel Rojas on Oct 5, 2020
Direct link to the article Using a brightness() filter to generically highlight content
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Using a brightness() filter to generically highlight content

Rick Strahl:

I can’t tell you how many times over the years I’ve implemented a custom ‘button’ like CSS implementation. Over the years I’ve used images, backgrounds, gradients, and opacity to effectively ‘highlight’ a control. All that works of

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Chris Coyier on Sep 11, 2020
Direct link to the article A Complete Guide to Links and Buttons
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A Complete Guide to Links and Buttons

Our complete guide to links, buttons, and button-like inputs in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

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Chris Coyier on Feb 14, 2020 (Updated on Feb 22, 2022)
Direct link to the article Disabled buttons suck
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Disabled buttons suck

In this oldie but goodie, Hampus Sethfors digs into why disabled buttons are troubling for usability reasons and he details one example where this was pretty annoying for him. The same has happened to me recently where I clicked a …

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Robin Rendle on Nov 11, 2019
Direct link to the article Breakout Buttons
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Breakout Buttons

Andy covers a technique where a semantic <button></button> is used within a card component, but really, the whole card is clickable. The trick is to put a pseudo-element that goes beyond the button, covering the entire card. The tradeoff is …

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Chris Coyier on Oct 4, 2019
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