A complete <dev> guide for better buttons

#buttons #guide #a11y #bestpractices

Buttons are one of the most simple, yet deeply fundamental and foundational building blocks of the web. Click a button, and you submit a form or change the context within the same page. But there is a lot to know from the HTML implementation and attributes, styling best practices, things to avoid, and the even-more-nuance implementations of the buttons — links and button-like inputs.

This article covers, building —

Links,
Buttons,
and Button-like Inputs

We’re going to deep-dive into all three of them, and for each, dig into the 🏗️ HTML implementations, 🖌 CSS and ⚙️ JS considerations, ❤️ Accessibility information, and ‼️ Pitfalls/Bad practices. By covering all that, we’ll have a better UX implementation of each.