<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Julian Reschke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de">julian.reschke@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Håkon Wium Lie wrote:<br>
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I'd like to have a simple way of using <button> along with <a> to<br>
create pretty links. This markup works in Opera, Mozilla, and Webkit:<br>
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<a href="<a href="http://www.w3.org/" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/</a>"><button>W3C</button></a><br>
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but it's not valid HTML5 it seems. I propose to make it valid.<br>
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The inverse (a inside button) only works in Webkit.<br></div>
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So a link that looks like a button? Maybe I'm missing something, but why would you ever want that?<br>
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Users are trained that there's a difference between following links and pressing buttons, so it seems to be a bad idea to blur that distinction.<br>
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Of course, buttons that look like links are a much bigger problem.<br>
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BR, Julian<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Not really. To a user, a button just means "press this to go to another page, possibly also submitting a form". We're well trained to accept buttons as plain links, though - just look at how many navs are styled in a button-like manner.<br>
<br>Even within the context of "press a button to do something with a form", it's reasonable to want your buttons and links styled the same. Say you have a Submit and a Cancel button. Submit would post the form, while Cancel would just be a bare link out to some other page. In this case, you want both to have similar looks so as to present a cohesive UI.<br>
<br>(I have no particular opinion on Hakon's proposal, though. I get around this by never using plain <button>s - mine are always styled in such a way that links can copy.)<br><br>~TJ<br></div>