How to create an HTML button that acts like a link?
I would like to create an HTML button that acts like a link. So, when you click the button, it redirects to a page. I would like it to be as accessible as possible.
I would also like it so there aren't any extra characters, or parameters in the URL.
How can I achieve this?
Based on the answers posted so far, I am currently doing this:
<form method="get" action="/page2">
<button type="submit">Continue</button>
</form>
but the problem with this is that in Safari and Internet Explorer, it adds a question mark character to the end of the URL. I need to find a solution that doesn't add any characters to the end of the URL.
There are two other solutions to do this: Using JavaScript or styling a link to look like a button.
Using JavaScript:
<button onclick="window.location.href='/page2'">Continue</button>
But this obviously requires JavaScript, and for that reason it is less accessible to screen readers. The point of a link is to go to another page. So trying to make a button act like a link is the wrong solution. My suggestion is that you should use a link and style it to look like a button.
<a href="/link/to/page2">Continue</a>
HTML
The plain HTML way is to put it in a <form>
wherein you specify the desired target URL in the action
attribute.
<form action="http://google.com">
<input type="submit" value="Go to Google" />
</form>
If necessary, set CSS display: inline;
on the form to keep it in the flow with the surrounding text. Instead of <input type="submit">
in above example, you can also use <button type="submit">
. The only difference is that the <button>
element allows children.
You'd intuitively expect to be able to use <button href="http://google.com">
analogous with the <a>
element, but unfortunately no, this attribute does not exist according to HTML specification.
CSS
If CSS is allowed, simply use an <a>
which you style to look like a button using among others the appearance
property (only Internet Explorer support is currently (July 2015) still poor).
<a href="http://google.com" class="button">Go to Google</a>
a.button {
-webkit-appearance: button;
-moz-appearance: button;
appearance: button;
text-decoration: none;
color: initial;
}
Or pick one of those many CSS libraries like Bootstrap.
<a href="http://google.com" class="btn btn-default">Go to Google</a>
JavaScript
If JavaScript is allowed, set the window.location.href
.
<input type="button" onclick="location.href='http://google.com';" value="Go to Google" />
<button onclick="location.href='http://www.example.com'" type="button">
www.example.com</button>
If it's the visual appearance of a button you're looking for in a basic HTML anchor tag then you can use the Twitter Bootstrap framework to format any of the following common HTML type links/buttons to appear as a button. Please note the visual differences between version 2, 3 or 4 of the framework:
<a class="btn" href="">Link</a>
<button class="btn" type="submit">Button</button>
<input class="btn" type="button" value="Input">
<input class="btn" type="submit" value="Submit">
Bootstrap (v4) sample appearance:
Bootstrap (v3) sample appearance:
Bootstrap (v2) sample appearance:
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