![]() ![]() When I worked out how to do this I was surprised how simple it was. This is done by making the borders a little widerĪnd choosing appropriate colours. It is also possible to give buttons a 3D effect. Voila: a nicely wrappable button-bar which is accessible and still works underĪll conditions (no images, no styling or no Javascript).Īs far as I know this works in all current and recent browsers (I have checked it inĬurrent versions of Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Internet Explorer. This shifts the button just far enough left toĬover up both the white space and the extra border on the previous button. To fix this, I set borders on all four sides of the buttons, and apply a small ![]() But when the bar wraps, the first button on the second row has noīorder on the left: this is not disastrous, but not attractive either. No wrapping, this is easily done by applying a right-border to all the buttons, plusĪ left border to the first button in the list, using the CSS first-child Problem: one wants to have separator lines between the buttons. White-space, but this is not yet generally supported. It is the intention to solve this in CSS3 with a styling option to collapse the One solution is to suppress all white-spaceīetween the links in the HTML, but this results in ugly mark-up which may easily go Version of this page this was solved by leaving a space at the end of each button,īut this does not work with inline-block. Inline-block has however its own problem if you want the buttons to join upĪs a contiguous bar. I have also appliedīorder-radius: 0.5em to get nicely rounded buttons in those browsers Is add the usual CSS padding, border, margin and colours. If you want a bar where the buttons are spaced out, all you now need to do But in thisĬontext, when the links are part of a clearly identifiable button-bar, this is not a Result is often referred to as “mystery-meat” navigation). It is certainly abused on many web-sites (the Generally this is not a good idea, as it leaves the reader To get the buttons to run horizontally, you then use a CSS style to display the list itemsĪs an inline-block. Readable and usable, and if Javascript is disabled the buttons still work. This way, if the page is viewed unstyled, then the buttons are still perfectly The buttons are defined in the HTML as an I actually tried three or four approaches before finding one that This is one of those things that is basically quite simple, but has some unexpected Don’t worry if theĬolour scheme makes you cringe – you can easily change it to whatever you Here are examples of the button-bars which are possible. Seems to me a rather Germanic way of doing things. Maybe this will one day be considered correct, but stringing words together like that ![]() Hive-mind of the Web seems to marginally prefer writing it as a single word, and VerticalĪs an aside: should one write "button bar", "button-bar" or "buttonbar"? The Note that this page is mainly concerned with horizontal button-bars. CSS button-bars are now much more straightforward, and can be done with nice Interest now, unless you are looking for examples of how things were in the bad oldĭays. This original version is still here, but is probably of little When I first put together a page on this subject, achieving this was something ofĪ challenge due to the number of bugs in common browsers. ![]() For the reader: faster downloading resizable text.Compared to using images this has various This page explains how one can put button-bars (menus) together ![]()
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