The buttons created although functional had their limitations (usually grey with black text)

But in HTML 4.0 a new way of adding buttons was born

The <button> tag was launched

To add it just add the HTML as described elsewhere on this tutorial area

Here's a simple example

<button type="submit">send</button>

send

Okay not too different so far. You must designate what type of button you have (use submit, reset and button) using the type attribute. Note how the simple text becomes the name on the button

You can add name and value attributes as before if you want.

Now the cool thing is that you can alter the button's label with ease

e.g.

<button type="submit">
<font color="#FF0000">
<b><i>send</b></i></font>
</button>

gives rise to   send

You can add images with all the power of the image tag

e.g.

<button type="submit">
<img src="b_stone.gif" alt="send" align="middle">
<b><i>send</b></i></button>

send

You could even add a table if you were feeling mad enough

 

send

 

This adds more flexibility to your Forms

 

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