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Please use more button tags

I love good UI design. In fact it's the thing I love most about the application design process. With HTML there are some great tags that most people have never even heard about, let alone actually used before. The first tag I'd like to bring to your attention is the button tag.

I've been using these tags on and off since I've been learning html (over 10 years now). I realised how powerful they are when I needed a way to underline characters in a button (with conjunction with the accesskey property). The default input tag didn't allow me to underline characters, so the button tag quickly and easily allowed me to acomplished this. Since then I've used when whenever I needed something special out of a button.... But not any more.

Icons. This is now the reason why I use the button tag over the input tag.

There's a tastey tutorial on how to style button tags with icons at http://particletree.com/features/rediscovering-the-button-element/


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