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Styling a text link to look like a button

Styling a text link to look like a button

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Styling a text link to look like a button

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- [Instructor] Buttons have a very semantic meaning associated with them. And by default, buttons are programmed essentially to work inside of forms. You have a form tag, there's a button inside of it. It's a submit button. It's a reset button. That's what buttons are historically true for doing. With HTML5, we got a button tag itself as opposed to an input, which is what buttons were before. And buttons are now able to live outside of an HTML form tag, just like this button does right here. But this button does absolutely nothing. We can click this button all day long. It will do absolutely nothing. We have to associate JavaScript with this button in order to make it do something whatever that something happens to be. Now, often people want the look of a button but they want the functionality of a link. They just want to be able to click on a button and it's going to take them to wherever it is they need to go rather than having to mess with JavaScript and using a semantic HTML…

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