Dynamic Drive CSS Library- 3D CSS buttons

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3D CSS buttons

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>

Code Info

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Date Posted: 05/01/2006

Revision History: None

Usage Terms: Click here

Your Comments (37)

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I was looking for a clean and easy way to re-do the buttons on my "Listed Homes" data-grid. This looks good, is easy, works with both IE and Firefox with XHTML like your page - fails on FF2.0 in 4.01 transitional. I'll have to investigate further. Since I use FF this seems more important ;=}

Posted by Dave Snow on 11/07, 05:21 PM

Posted by asd on 11/25, 03:47 PM

hai

i have two links intially that links are in some colour when i click on 1st link the color will change in another. when i click 2nd link the color will change. but the 1st link colour will goes to intial colour

Posted by sivasankari on 03/12, 03:27 AM

Very gud Tutorial

Posted by Aish on 03/24, 04:06 AM

super super super

Posted by Killer on 05/26, 10:57 AM

Cool - We've just used the above solution - great and thanks

Posted by Joomla on 08/18, 12:21 PM

Ive tried to set up 3 times now without any luck, and then I got to this toturial - And it just work straight away! -Thanks for taking your time for us newbies :-)

Posted by Karmakonfetti - Tøj til drenge on 08/18, 12:25 PM

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