Coloured Buttons

[Venkat]

Hi,

I am writing this piece of html code
<input type = button value ="BookmarkedPage" id=button name =
BookmarkedPage>
to show the following button, i want to know if this button can be shown in
a coloured way.

if i put a parameter in input tag as color = red it doesn't work.

Is there anyway to do it?

Regards
Venkat

 

[Steve Pugh]

I am writing this piece of html code
<input type = button value ="BookmarkedPage" id=button name =
BookmarkedPage>
to show the following button, i want to know if this button can be shown in
a coloured way.

input type="button" is only useful in conjunction with client side
scripting, I hope your pages make provision for when such scripting is
not supported or enabled.

if i put a parameter in input tag as color = red it doesn't work.

You can't just invent attributes and expect them to work.

Changing the presentation of anything is best done with CSS.

#button { color: red;}

Steve

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

Changing the presentation of anything is best done with CSS.

#button { color: red;}

He probably wants to change the colour of the button, not its text. If
so, use:

#button { background-color: red;}

 

[Steve Pugh]

He probably wants to change the colour of the button, not its text.

Maybe, but the analogy was with a fictional HTML color attribute. Not
a fictional HTML bgcolor attribute.

If so use:

#button { background-color: red;}

To avoid clashes with user stylesheets or just with browser defaults
(black on red, or red on grey are both hard to read) both should be
specified:

#button {
color: yellow;
background: red;
}

The background property is favoured over background-color because (a)
it's shorter and (b) it sets background-image to none thus over riding
any user stylesheet.

Steve