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I'm trying to style a button using <input type="button"> instead of just <button>. With the code I have, the button extends all the way across the screen. I just want to be able to fit it to the text that it's in the button. Any ideas?
See the jsFiddle Example or continue on to the HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>WTF</title> </head> <style type="text/css"> .button { color:#08233e; font:2.4em Futura, ‘Century Gothic’, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size:70%; padding:14px; background:url(overlay.png) repeat-x center #ffcc00; background-color:rgba(255,204,0,1); border:1px solid #ffcc00; -moz-border-radius:10px; -webkit-border-radius:10px; border-radius:10px; border-bottom:1px solid #9f9f9f; -moz-box-shadow:inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.5); -webkit-box-shadow:inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.5); box-shadow:inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.5); cursor:pointer; } .button:hover { background-color:rgba(255,204,0,0.8); } </style> <body> <div class="button"> <input type="button" value="TELL ME MORE" onClick="document.location.reload(true)"> </div> </body> 
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The difference is that <button> can have content, whereas <input> cannot (it is a null element). While the button-text of an <input> can be specified, you cannot add markup to the text or insert a picture.
input suggests that the control is editable, or can be edited by the user; button is far more explicit in terms of the purpose it serves. Easier to style in CSS; as mentioned above, FIrefox and IE have quirks in which input[type="submit"] do not display correctly in some cases.
Do you really want to style the <div>? Or do you want to style the <input type="button">? You should use the correct selector if you want the latter:
input[type=button] { color:#08233e; font:2.4em Futura, ‘Century Gothic’, AppleGothic, sans-serif; font-size:70%; /* ... other rules ... */ cursor:pointer; } input[type=button]:hover { background-color:rgba(255,204,0,0.8); } See also:
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In your .button CSS, try display:inline-block. See this JSFiddle
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