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3D CSS buttons

Author: Dynamic Drive

By using an element's border-style CSS attribute to outset, you can easily create a 3D looking button. Taking it one step further the button can also appear depressed if desired, by switching from a border-style value of outset to inset. The below examples are 100% CSS based, not to mention lightweight:

Demo:

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The CSS:

<style type="text/css">

.rssbutton{
background-color: #ff6600;
border: 1px #ff6600 outset;
padding: 0 2px;
color: white;
text-decoration: none;
font: bold 10px Verdana;
}

.rssbutton:visited, .rssbutton:hover, .rssbutton:active{
color: white;
}

.cssbutton{
background-color: #d1ec4c;
border: 2px #d1ec4c outset;
padding: 1px 4px;
color: black;
text-decoration: none;
font: bold 90% "Lucida Grande", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

.cssbutton:visited{
color: black;
}

.cssbutton:hover{
border-style: inset;
background-color: #e3f48e;
padding: 2px 3px 0 5px; /*shift text 1px to the right and down*/
}

.cssbutton:active{
color: black;
}

</style>

The HTML:

<p>
<a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/export.php?type=new" class="rssbutton">RSS</a> 
<a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/export.php?type=new" class="rssbutton">XML</a>
</p>

<p><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com" class="cssbutton">Dynamic Drive</a></p>

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Date Posted: 05/01/2006

Revision History: None

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