style for buttons

Hello NG

Is there a way to define a standard class for submit buttons?
Or do I have to define a specific class on EVERY submit button
(class=mybutton)?

Any ideas?

Greets
Sascha

"Sascha Beyer" <admin (AT) webprojects (DOT) ch> wrote:

Is there a way to define a standard class for submit buttons?

There are no standard classes in HTML.

Or do I have to define a specific class on EVERY submit button
(class=mybutton)?

No. Why would you?

Now, guessing what you might mean on the Subject line but didn't say in
the body, I presume you would like to change the appearance of submit
buttons using style sheets. Then the best practical advice is "Don't".
Don't mess up with the user interface. Take a look at Google. They use
well-designed artistic logos, but they don't change the appearance of
form fields. In fact, that's typical of _useful_ forms.

But if you do, then the next best approach is to use
input[type=submit] { ... }
in CSS, i.e. an attribute selector. The best part of this is that does
not work on browsers like IE, which doesn't understand attribute
selectors at all.

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"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela (AT) cs (DOT) tut.fi> wrote

There are no standard classes in HTML.

in css I mean (like a, body, table, td, tr...)

No. Why would you?

Now, guessing what you might mean on the Subject line but didn't say in
the body, I presume you would like to change the appearance of submit
buttons using style sheets. Then the best practical advice is "Don't".
Don't mess up with the user interface. Take a look at Google. They use
well-designed artistic logos, but they don't change the appearance of
form fields. In fact, that's typical of _useful_ forms.

sometimes things like this are necessary bcause of a colorful layout.

"Sascha Beyer" <admin (AT) webprojects (DOT) ch> wrote:

There are no standard classes in HTML.

in css I mean (like a, body, table, td, tr...)

There are no standard classes in CSS either.

sometimes things like this are necessary bcause of a colorful
layout.

The change the layout. There's no reason to make a _form_ colorful.
It's for user interface, not artistic impressions. Put the form onto a
page of its own if the site is otherwise colorful.

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