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Ryland G
Ryland G

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How to Make a Button on Dev.to

If you've read any of my last few posts you may have noticed that I started including a twitter image at the end. You might not have realized that it was actually a fully functional button.

I hadn't seen anyone do this before. Luckily, Dev.to is open source, so it was easy enough to see that the markdown parser permitted a simple image button. I've included an example below.

<a href="https://twitter.com/<YOUR_TWITTER_HERE>" rel="some text">
![Foo]
(https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/gmrz82bjwhej1f1iqb1e.png)</a>
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or (as suggested by @Artemix)

[![](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/gmrz82bjwhej1f1iqb1e.png)](https://twitter.com/<YOUR_TWITTER_HERE>)
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That code (with your own twitter URL added) will display a follow button for your twitter in a post. Example below

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Ben Halpern

I feel like a call-to-action button would make for a pretty useful liquid tag to make stuff like this fairly native.

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Ryland G

Couldn’t +1 more. That would be awesome.

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Michael Lee 🍕

+1

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Thomas Bnt ☕

oh 👌

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Ryland G • Edited

I write a lot of HTML, so it was just what I naturally chose. That might should work too!

Edit: Updated the post and credited you. Great suggestion!

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Markel F.

Funny thing, a couple of days ago my friend gave me the button you used as a header image. It was a nice present.

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Ryland G

What a coincidence.

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Markel F.

The world is a small place, isn't it?

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Angela Whisnant

Nice!

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Khan

Great work!

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Ryland G

Doesn’t shields.io generate normal markdown?