Thanks these buttons look great! I have made some fancy buttons to (no css3) check out this link http://www.martijndevalk.nl/tuts/fancy_buttons/

Very nice tutorial! Great job!

Martijn: With all do respect, your solution isn’t even comparable with this.
In fact, is’t been commonly used for over 3-4 years and is found all over the web, (i.e use of .png images and background-position). This solutions uses ONLY css and no images which decreases number of requests to the server and the download-time in the long run :-)

Quite simple, nothing new.

But it’s good to see another example of CSS3 usage !

Yesterday I made a similar button with CSS3 gradients and and :active state, too, but you hit it! Very cool stuff!

I guess you should add -ms-filter for IE8+

Beside that, this technique is perfect :)

I’m new to your site and love the content so far! These buttons are great, love the use of all CSS and HTML. Thanks for sharing!

Great piece Nic and the #smashingmag tweet could not have come at a better time! I’m revamping a client’s old site – and working on CSS3 buttons this am. Now I have a template to start from! Saved me at least an hour. I’ll credit you on the site.

Muchas gracias!

I’m wondering…does adding the filter for IE eat up a lot of memory?

very nice and helpfully for a no -pictured website

Nice tutorial.

You might be interested in another example on nice buttons witch CSS3.

a very well written article…..nice job

Thanks so much for that clear explanation. I’ve used a lot of those techniques before, but I love the idea of making the text darker on the :active state. You learn something new every day!

This is actually really well done. Thanks for taking the time of clearly outlining the process here. You’ve done well to answer questions before they inevitably arise (cross-browser issues). I’ve got a project these babies can go into today.

thats really cool and css3 is looking powerful and good enough to make the web more better. thanks for the share

You can add an inset box-shadow to the active state to really make it feel pressed.

This is an excellent article!! One thing you haven’t covered which readers may find useful are “color stops” which give you more control over the gradient in a very easy way. Both the Webkit and Mozilla engines support color stops.

Webkit’s implementation is better in my opinion as you can specify where the stop point is e.g. for a 3 step gradient you may do something like this:
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0.0, yellow), color-stop(0.5, orange), color-stop(1.0, red));
The first parameter in the color-stop attribute is the percentage of distance from start and end points.

Mozilla’s implementation still provides color stops but you have no control over their placement – e.g.
background: -moz-linear-gradient(left, yellow, orange, red);

All I can say is, I love CSS3!

This is pretty dang awesome. Makes buttons super easy to add/manage.

@Shane: you can specify where color-stops are in Mozilla, too:
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top,
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.6) 0%,
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 40%,
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2) 40%,
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.0) 100%);

@Brandon – thanks for that! I wasn’t aware :)

anyone has idea why:
input element in Opera 10.51
dosent work?
it hasent got text drop-shadow
its strange since other button work quite well…

What a great post! CSS3 is so neat. Thanks for this!

While I don’t agree with using Microsoft filters to ape CSS3, you have omitted the declarations for IE8, e.g.:

-ms-filter: “progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=’#faa51a’, endColorstr=’#f47a20′)”;

Good stuff.. I’m starting to think pretty soon we won’t need PS any more :)

The technique is great, and you made it really easy to understand and use,
but what really amazed me was your wonderful choice of colors.

I don’t think a tutorial can be made any better than what you’ve done here!

Keep up the good work.

Mamdouh

Simple and neat!
Thanks for putting together!

Really cute! I’m planning in making my own website and this buttons is perfect! thanks a lot!

Great Stuff!
Should maybe add :focus along with :hover and :active

This + ie-css3.htc and you’ve got complete coverage!
This is great!
Thanks!

what a great idea. Im looking for some cool ideas to put on my website.

It works :-) Very nice solution. Tks a lot!

Great stuff!! Thanks for this cool article. CSS3 really rocks.

thx for sharing nick, its works :)

This article is one of the best CSS tutorials I´ve ever read! THANKS FOR SHARING THIS!
(I´m really glad I´ve joined your subscriber´s feed!)
Rosamunda

Once again, lame IE ruins innovation by not displaying gradients. Man, this could really save a lot of page load time throughout the web if everyone could use css buttons instead of PNGs.

very nice effect. thanks for sharing the great one. a very good tutorial 2010.

AWESOME!!! THANK YOU

Nice bit of CSS here, have just tried it and it works a treat in my decent NON IE browsers.

Even In IE however it still looks ok and has a nice gradient, just no shadow or rounded corners.

Cheers for sharing this with us… most appreciated.

Absolutely fantastic, thanks a lot for sharing.

Great, this one will be bookmarked & used!

Btw: compliments for the wonderful website…

Pieter

For more compatibility to others browsers. For every property with prefix -moz or -webkit, you may also incluse the prefix “-khtml”.
Like:
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
-khtml-border-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;

wow loving these buttons :) thanks

Neat professional buttons! I’ll use them!

Approx. 20 line of CSS and it looks beautiful.

Thx for sharing.

ubuntu admin

Well, I thought I would say that’s great but then it’s a bit common to say that. But really, that’s great!! Thanks for sharing.

Worked like a charm! Thanks so much.

First of all, buttons look great.

Second, is there a way to get the form elements (input/button) to be the same height as the rest in Firefox (I’m using 3.6.3)? Open the demo in ff to see what I mean.

mmmmm CS3

makes life easier!!

very good tut. thanks.

Hey, thanks for such a great feature. I’m having trouble implementing it on chrome though. When I type in my button text (ie the text that shows on the button) in upper case, either just the first letter shows up or nothing at all. It works fine in firefox and IE though. I had to revert to lowercase but will really like to use all caps. Help please?

are tutorial! thanks for sharing your knowledge.

best regards sascha

I will most definitely use these in my next project!

wow…such a nice post.. it helps alot thankx.

thanks for the your web site i am not very good comunicate english but very simple use to your web toturials very very thanks .

Thanks For all f you

great tutorial, i never knew you could do that in pure css. It woudl be good to see how it degrades in each browser, or a browser compatability chart?

Anyone know how to disable the button changing sizes in ffox and IE?

thank you for this lovely post is there any way we can hack IE for rounded corners

Very good and interesting Article, but that sucks that Internet Explorer has problems with this button…

Love it, works great… Mozilla and Chrome it is perfectly fine just IE it is not perfect… but enough for use :)

Great article, cool buttons! Please take a look at my new CSS3Menu, http://css3menu.com/. It can create similar CSS3 buttons, w/o coding. Versions for Mac and Windows are available.
Thanks!

Don’t forget to include a hover state for keyboard junkies!

Also, for Opera you can use a box-shadow inset to simulate a gradient on the button. Just set the bg color, set the inset shadow, then declare your gradients. It’s not perfect, but looks better than plain color…

Great tutorial. will try it out :)

thats great art. great job dude

Nice, but what is the proper CSS3 gradient property once it is all finally supported?

Nice tutorial ^0^

Thank you so much ..
You are very cool

very good. I like the way you present your content.

nice info, thanks for sharing :)

@ Randall – I just came across this post and I’m seeing the same thing with “double padding” in IE. Did you find a fix?

Great buttons otherwise!

this tutorial very clear, thanks

thanks for your info. easy to understanding

very good and creative….

And I thought I was so briliant building that: http://www.cybernoxa.pl/projects/css3/buttons/ Today I found yours and… the code is almost the same, anyway – gr8 article :)

Very handy. Thanks for sharing the code and how to please all browsers – even IE.

These are really nice looking. Great work! An improvement would be to make all the gradients semitransparent black instead of whatever color the background is. That way, the only thing you have to change to get a different colored button is a single simple hex background color. The black gradient would control the slight darkening on every single one. More flexible, less code.

Very cool and simple. Really appreciated the previews in noncc3 browsers.

Really nice. It’s great what you can do with bare CSS – isn’t it? Actually it would have been a bit better with the use of CSS transitions. Could be like this:

That gives the background a nice animation effect when its hovered. I think that should be part of a css3 tutorial.

awesome, very handy to know!

Thanks for these great buttons, the only problem for me is that the text is black instead of white.
http://funnotfun.com
Any idea how to correct that ?
Thanks

Really useful tutorial, simple and easy to use. I found it really useful. Thanks.

Thx for your brief advice. Liked it and keep CSS3 coming :D

thanks for sharing this code
but is there a fix to the height in firefox?
Thanks you

Wow! Those buttons looks cool! Thanks for sharing that!

But… is that WC3 compliant? Is that a ‘valid’ code?

Really useful tutorial, simple and easy to use. I found it really useful. Thanks.

It seems the filter syntax breaks things in the new Explorer 9 beta. It gives the button/form button a solid background color + the rounded borders on top of it. The end result is as you can imagine not very nice. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks for a great site!

I guess the alternative is to move the filter property to a IE8 only css with a conditional comment.

First, thank you for sharing your work, it’s very useful !

Just a little detail I have added to your buttons for firefox :

/* delete useless outline in firefox elements */
button::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type=”reset”]::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type=”button”]::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type=”submit”]::-moz-focus-inner,
input[type=”file”] > input[type=”button”]::-moz-focus-inner {
border: none;
}

With that, it will delete the dotted outline in firefox for the buttons/inputs elements.

An other detail, I put a font-weight: 600; to be more readable in chrome because the text seems to be more aliased in chrome.

Thank you !

Itzz seems to be awesom…

Great article! I’m from Brazil, I’ve been following your works for a while and I’m always learning new things from you, congratulations.

@Reda : No, I do not have any issue with FF. Which version do you use ? I’m currently with 3.6.10.

Do you experience an issue on each html elements with a button css class or specific elements ?

wow, my text has been cut because i put sime html tags:
“Hi Thomas, and thanks a lot for your answer.
I’m using FF 4 on a mac and all <button> elements have a much bigger height, i have no problem with <a> buttons.
if you don’t see what i mean, i can send you a screen…
Thanks once again”

@Reda :

Try this :

button, .button,
button[type=”button”], button[type=”reset”], button[type=”submit”],
input[type=”reset”], input[type=”submit”], input[type=”button”] {
display: inline-block;
/* zoom and *display = ie7 hack for display:inline-block */
zoom: 1;
*display: inline;
vertical-align: baseline;
margin: 0px 2px;
outline: none;
cursor: pointer;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 5px 13px 5px 13px;

-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;

-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.2);

border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;

font-weight: 800;
text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
}

hello everybody, it’s almost 2am in here and thought it would be better if i share with you what i have just discovered before i go to bed!
to solve the FF height problem all you need to do is to add the following to .button class:
font-family: your favorite font;
font-size: Xpx;
padding: 5px 10px;
font-weight: bold;

and then add this class:
button::-moz-focus-inner {
border: 0;
}
it’ll also solve many other problems caused by ie6&7 and also with FF such as a black border in ie7…
hope this will help some of you and also spare you some time… ;)
chears and thanks again for this nice script and also to Thomas who tried to help ;)

Nevermind. Got it. :/

http://tinyurl.com/2aabwrp

Still going to use your gradient buttons though…

Has anyone actually, been able to get a different colour for the “clicked” button, ie visited ?

Why does this code come up as invalid css?

I am currently using this technique on my website(in the nav) with some other effects.

Apple’s launch of the iphone 4 white has seen the greatest excitement for a new phone ever, with HD video recording, a super high-res screen and ridiculously slim dimensions, it’s not hard to see why its so popular in the world.

Thank you so much for this amazing content!!

This works great in FF on my PC, but on my MAC, the Gradient does no apply? Am I missing something?

Thank you soo much for this, I was pulling my hair out trying to this.
Easy explanation and thanks for the code.
Any idea how to add the when active state? if not many thanks anyway!
:o)

kabul et

Thanks for this great work! Thinking about using it.

Brilliant tutorial and Ive now created as many buttons as there are on the demo page! Brilliant work around for the cross browser compatibility too! Thanks a bunch and now I shall do another tutorial!

I think it also helps to use border-style: outset; the button and border-style: inset; for an active button. Makes it look more 3d.

Damn, this really is nice! Used it in my project. Awesome!

This is wonderful – thank you!

This is great work, but i wish there was disable style on it too, lots of people miss out the disable version of the button, which is important too in dynamic sites, specially with ajax involvement. if you guys can add disable version, i would really appreciate it and other people with me.

Hello :) I love this technique and have been using it a lot, so thanks. I was just wondering if you’d looked at it in IE9. It seems to display the background gradient outside the rounded corners, so you have a rounded button within a rectangular button, if that makes sense. It’s hardly a huge deal, and it might be fixed pretty soon (hopefully!) but I was just wondering if you knew any ways around this? Cheers!

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Great side – only looking this tut but think, all other tut’s great, too!
Thx for your engagement and

Greetings from Germany :-)

“The best part about this method is it can be applied to any HTML element such as div, span, p, a, button, input, etc.” Wow!

This is super cool, but to create additional colors – for example brown or yellow ones – it would be interesting to know how you came up with the the color palette.

Great tut, im wondering if the hover state is too heavy using the gradients, specially on IE ?

Excellent!

Really impressive post, we will consider adding these functionality to our online button maker tool .

Very nice! Where did you come up with the gradients? I need one with a different shade of blue. Thanks for the awesome work!

very impressive tutorial , i liked this new css3 feature alot .. whoha

Simply fantastic! Thank you !!!

Nice work.
This is truly useful.

Gave you credits on my blog post – http://richarrdg.tumblr.com

Thanks.

These buttons are hot.

Hi,
Thank you for the buttons, they are really cool. I have just one problem in that when I use the W3C CSS Level 3 Validator it brings up 56 errors and 1 warning, so can these be properly validated ?
Thanks

It’s a really good work !!

Thanks man!
Really clear and helpfull tutorial.

Fabulous! Just what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing the love!

Are you “slow banning” IE6 the same site at the same time works great on Firefox but IE6 is keeps spinning the loading icon. If so, its not cool at all. You post some coll web design examples and want to view them in older browsers.

Great post, helped me a lot. However, it doesn’t work well in IE9. The gradient CSS command is creating square colored corners…

This is awesome! Thanks so much :)

you are amaizing i am njust a student for webmaster and graphic designer in the print….. and you help me so very much(sorry for the eanglish i am from israel)
just had to say it:)

These are the best, simplest buttons yet!

Great!

Really nice!
It’s helping me a lot =)
Thanks!

Thx. The information is very interesting. Can be used practically.

Nice post. It’s really help me.
Thx :D

Hey Now;

Great post on CSS3 button styles.

Thx 4 the info;
Catto

I’m doing some buttons and wanted them to have a gradient background, and found your post really useful so thanks

Awesome man… good job

Also do NOT use RGBA() with text-shadow – unless you want your elements to look hideous in Chrome… just use a hex code for text-shadow instead.

How to increase the size of buttons?

i liked all the buttons here they look so nice and clean. thanx

Hi, thanks for the code.

Just created a plugin for wordpress to add your css buttons to wordpress websites. Need your mail to send you the zip file.

cheers,
serge

definitely, a BIG BIG deals.thx, for article

Hi Nick,

Love the buttons! I have a question: given a base color, how do you get the rest of the colors (border-color, gradient colors, etc)? Are the rest of the colors the base color with the brightness changed?

-Venkat