More Awesome CSS3 Buttons for Your Web Application
Colorful and Scalable Buttons with CSS3 & RGBA
Alex Griffioen teach us how to create pretty looking textual buttons (with alternate pressed state) using CSS. Alex Griffioen uses sliding doors technique; two complementing images creating the illusion of a single, stretching image to create dynamic buttons which save you heaps of time on creating different graphics for different states of the button.
David’s Kitchen wrote an article: Scalable CSS Buttons Using PNG and Background Colors taught us how to create dynamic CSS Buttons using PNG, transparency and background colors that degrades nicely and supports full scalability.
It is really handy for developers because the length of the button will be changed according to the length of the text. The buttons are very pretty with Web 2.0 style. The color of the button changed if you hover on it. However, the buttons are not looking very nice in Internet Explorer 6.0, hope there is a version which supports IE 6.0 as well soon.
06 Sep
Posted by Ray Cheung as Buttons, License Free
Whether you’re designing a website or a web application, you’ll need buttons for it. Now, with CSS3’s help, it was never easier to create nice looking buttons. In the article: Just some other awesome CSS3 buttons, you’ll learn how to create some cool CSS3 buttons in just a few steps.
The buttons are scalable, depending on font size. And styles as color and background are easy to update via CSS. The buttons do not use any image, automatically there’s no extra HTTP image request. No image to load means faster rendering.
The buttons are scalable, depending on font size. And styles as color and background are easy to update via CSS. The buttons do not use any image, automatically there’s no extra HTTP image request. No image to load means faster rendering.
Requirements: CSS3 supported browsers
Demo: http://www.red-team-design.com/just-another-awesome-css3…
License: License Free
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Google rolled out a new design across many of their services as part of the Google+ launch. The new look presents a sleeker, simplified Google that puts the emphasis on your data and not on the interface. Part of the design’s success are the new buttons.
Great UIs tend to have simple, obvious buttons that are standard across the entire application. Pixify has created Google+ Buttons in CSS that you can apply to your app’s UI. You can also check out Use Apple OS X Lion to Improve Your UI.
Great UIs tend to have simple, obvious buttons that are standard across the entire application. Pixify has created Google+ Buttons in CSS that you can apply to your app’s UI. You can also check out Use Apple OS X Lion to Improve Your UI.
Requirements: Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE7+, IE6
Demo: http://pixify.com/blog/use-google-plus-to-improve-your-ui/
License: Creative Commons License
This is a collection of buttons that show what is possible using CSS3. Almost all of these buttons look best in Chrome and Safari on OSX. They look almost as good in Firefox, with all other browsers receiving a less-styled button.
Requirements: CSS3
Demo: http://ubuwaits.github.com/css3-buttons/
License: License Free
BonBon Buttons are sweet CSS3 buttons that are sexy looking, really flexible, but with the most minimalistic markup as possible. There are 3 different materials. A “mate”, “glossy” and a “glass” version. The difference of the later two is that the glass version adds a dark blurry text-shadow which makes it look like you can see trough the button to its bottom.
However, BonBon Buttons are not meant to be used on your next project that targets the average internet user. He just wanted to show a couple techniques how to use some of the new CSS3/HTML5 features. So only the current version of Safari, Chrome and Firefox are supported.
However, BonBon Buttons are not meant to be used on your next project that targets the average internet user. He just wanted to show a couple techniques how to use some of the new CSS3/HTML5 features. So only the current version of Safari, Chrome and Firefox are supported.
Requirements: CSS3 Support
Demo: http://lab.simurai.com/css/buttons/
License: License Free
How to Create GitHub Style Buttons with CSS & Javascript
31 May
Posted by Ray Cheung as Buttons, License Free
Are you a GitHub fan? We all know that GitHub is the perfect place to store repositories of open source code. GitHub seems to understand that most repo sites are usually boring so they’ve spiced their site up with some catchy CSS and great JavaScript features. One tiny piece of the GitHub design David Walsh loves are the basic buttons.
David Walsh has written a tutorial: Create GitHub-Style Buttons with CSS and jQuery, MooTools, or Dojo JavaScript, in order to teach us how to create our own GitHub-style buttons with a bit of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
David Walsh has written a tutorial: Create GitHub-Style Buttons with CSS and jQuery, MooTools, or Dojo JavaScript, in order to teach us how to create our own GitHub-style buttons with a bit of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Requirements: Dojo, Mootools or jQuery Framework
Demo: http://davidwalsh.name/dw-content/github-button.php
License: License Free
How to Create a Realistic Looking Button with CSS3
14 Apr
Posted by Ray Cheung as Buttons, License Free
How to Create a Realistic Looking Button with CSS3? The whole idea is to use a combination of subtle effects to create a three dimensional object. The idea is that: The button is set into the canvas. The texture of the button is different from the canvas and the surface is slightly raised. And the text of the button is pressed into it.
By going into the detail you can use these techniques in your designs. Think about your designs in 3D. It is less about using the specific border effects and more about using them together to achieve an overall look.
By going into the detail you can use these techniques in your designs. Think about your designs in 3D. It is less about using the specific border effects and more about using them together to achieve an overall look.
Requirements: CSS3
Demo: http://blog.anomalyinnovations.com/2010/03/creating-a-realistic…
License: License Free
StyledButton jQuery plugin is an attempt to recreate Google’s imageless buttons and prove that it doesn’t take a whole team of engineers and an endless cycle of code revision and quality control (their own words) to pull this off.
The buttons automatically adapt to paddings and other styling you wish to use. They allow for a lot of stylistic customisation via a few lines of css while keeping all the display critical css rules hidden deep inside the plugin.
The buttons automatically adapt to paddings and other styling you wish to use. They allow for a lot of stylistic customisation via a few lines of css while keeping all the display critical css rules hidden deep inside the plugin.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://swizec.com/code/styledButton/
License: MIT, GPL License
Using CSS animations in Safari, we’re able to turn an otherwise ordinary button into a glowing, Radioactive Buttons. Be sure you’re in Safari / Chrome browser before getting underway. You can set the Animation name, Animation duration and the number of times it repeats.
You can see how these come together on the right. The CSS calls a pre-defined animation you create, assigns it a duration, and tells it how long to repeat. Pretty sweet, right?
You can see how these come together on the right. The CSS calls a pre-defined animation you create, assigns it a duration, and tells it how long to repeat. Pretty sweet, right?
Requirements: Safari or Chrome Browser
Demo: http://www.zurb.com/playground/radioactive-buttons
License: License Free
p51Labs came up with the Simply-Buttons v2. Buttons auto resize itself to fit text. There are 3 states: Inactive, Active, and Hover. They look and behave the same way in every browser and operating system. However, the caveats are the outlines on the buttons, the text is selectable. And These buttons are not mobile friendly.
With Simply-Buttons Javascript component provided, you can solve the caveats above as well. You can easily modify the buttons look and feel. You can do this by creating your own stylesheet. If you like this, you might be interested in Simple Round CSS Buttons or Colorful and Scalable Buttons or Beautiful Scalable CSS Buttons as well.
With Simply-Buttons Javascript component provided, you can solve the caveats above as well. You can easily modify the buttons look and feel. You can do this by creating your own stylesheet. If you like this, you might be interested in Simple Round CSS Buttons or Colorful and Scalable Buttons or Beautiful Scalable CSS Buttons as well.
Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.p51labs.com/simply-buttons-v2/
License: License Free
At GraphicRiver you can buy and sell royalty free layered Adobe Photoshop Files, Vector Graphics, Icon Sets and Add-ons for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. It’s like having an entire graphics department at your fingertips!
Files are priced from just $1, based on the complexity, quality and use of the file. We have compiled a list of high quality design resources you may find useful when designing your own websites. Although they are not free, some of them are really a real bargain at such low prices.
10 Useful & Quality Design Resources on GraphicRiver
Files are priced from just $1, based on the complexity, quality and use of the file. We have compiled a list of high quality design resources you may find useful when designing your own websites. Although they are not free, some of them are really a real bargain at such low prices.
1) Premium Download Buttons
2) Web 2.0 Styled Slider Boxes
3) Great Web boxes
10 Useful & Quality Design Resources on GraphicRiver28 Jul
Posted by Ray Cheung as Buttons
At GraphicRiver you can buy and sell royalty free layered Adobe Photoshop Files, Vector Graphics, Icon Sets and Add-ons for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. It’s like having an entire graphics department at your fingertips!
Files are priced from just $1, based on the complexity, quality and use of the file. We have compiled a list of high quality design resources you may find useful when designing your own websites. Although they are not free, some of them are really a real bargain at such low prices.
Files are priced from just $1, based on the complexity, quality and use of the file. We have compiled a list of high quality design resources you may find useful when designing your own websites. Although they are not free, some of them are really a real bargain at such low prices.
1) Premium Download Buttons
2) Web 2.0 Styled Slider Boxes
3) Great Web boxes
4) 3D Box Generator Action set & Templates
5) Badges and Tags for your Online Shop
6) Web Ribbon Set
7) Tags for Online Shop
8 ) Web Banners
9) 21 Web Button Ultimate Collection
10) Wavy Abstract Background
Related Web Resources
More Awesome CSS3 Buttons for Your Web Application
23 Jul
Posted by Ray Cheung as Buttons, License Free
One of great things about CSS3 is the addition of RGBA, a color mode that adds alpha-blending to your favorite CSS properties. ZURB has kicked the tires on it a bit with their own projects and have found that it helps streamline their CSS and makes scaling things like buttons very easy. To show you how, ZURB has cooked up an example of some Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBA.
With a little CSS3 magic, we can create a scalable set of buttons with nearly half the CSS it would have taken with hex colors. Give it a go in your next project and see how it can help add that extra polish you want without huge impact on your code.
With a little CSS3 magic, we can create a scalable set of buttons with nearly half the CSS it would have taken with hex colors. Give it a go in your next project and see how it can help add that extra polish you want without huge impact on your code.
Requirements: CSS3
Demo: http://www.zurb.com/blog_uploads/0000/0401/buttons-01.html
License: License Free
The author of Button-Download.com has been keeping the buttons he made in the past. Now he has released all of them to us. All of the buttons are in PNG and PSD format, so that you can edit the buttons as you like. You are free to use these buttons your personal and commercial projects. To make your life easier, you can also download these buttons all at once by clicking the “All Download” button as well.
Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.button-download.com/
License: License Free
If you use Skype I am sure that you noticed that animated button for adding more people to a chat. When you mouseover on it, the icon on the left “jumps” for a few times. The animation looks really attractive.
Janko is going to show you how to create the Skype-like Buttons using jQuery and some simple CSS. The code is tested in Firefox, Safari and IE7.
Janko is going to show you how to create the Skype-like Buttons using jQuery and some simple CSS. The code is tested in Firefox, Safari and IE7.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/examples/skype_buttons/
License: License Free
Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, they have been playing and experimenting with controls they call “Custom Buttons” in their apps (among other custom controls). These buttons just launched in Gmail and Google Reader recently.
The buttons are designed to look very similar to basic HTML input buttons. But they can handle multiple interactions with one basic design. The buttons we’re using are imageless, and they’re created entirely using HTML and CSS, plus some JavaScript to manage the behavior. They’re also easily skinnable with a few lines of CSS, which was a key factor now that Gmail has themes.
The buttons are designed to look very similar to basic HTML input buttons. But they can handle multiple interactions with one basic design. The buttons we’re using are imageless, and they’re created entirely using HTML and CSS, plus some JavaScript to manage the behavior. They’re also easily skinnable with a few lines of CSS, which was a key factor now that Gmail has themes.
Requirements: -
Demo: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/02/04/recreating-the-button.html
License: License Free
Flying People has released 20 Free Sunny Glossy Buttons created by Jay K to use on you blog, website and online-store. The gradient of the buttons looks so beautiful. If you need some web2.0 badges or buttons, it is really a very nice choice.
* The Buttons are no longer available for download *
* The Buttons are no longer available for download *
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.flying-people.com/2007/10/10/20-free-sunny-buttons/
License: License Free
Another development kit from Bartelme Design. it’s basically a Photoshop file ready to use, adapt and reinterpret for creating beautiful buttons. It is really nice and useful as usual. Those buttons can be used on both personal and commercial websites etc. Enjoy.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.bartelme.at/journal/archive/button_devkit
License: License Free
As we know, the input with the type=”submit” is either too ugly (Firefox), a little buggy (Internet Explorer) or completely inflexible (Safari). The solution for most is to use image inputs and create the damn things ourselves. And it’s unfortunate, because then we’re reduced to the tedious tasks of opening up Photoshop every time we’re in need of a new button. What we need is something better—something more flexible and meant for designers. Lucky for us, the solution already exists. ParticleTree introduced us a better way to do it, also with mouseover and mouseout effect.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://particletree.com/features/rediscovering-the-button-element
License: License Free
Hedger Wang teaches us how to create rounded corner buttons with only One Image and One CSS file. Users can see different state of the buttons, e.g. disabled, mouseover and mouseout state. So that the users can feel more interactive with the website or web application. We can also use this technics to create Wii-like buttons.
Requirements: Internet Explorer 5.5+, Safari 2, Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9.
Demo: http://www.hedgerwow.com/360/dhtml/css-round-button/demo.php
License: GPL License
Alex Griffioen teach us how to create pretty looking textual buttons (with alternate pressed state) using CSS. Alex Griffioen uses sliding doors technique; two complementing images creating the illusion of a single, stretching image to create dynamic buttons which save you heaps of time on creating different graphics for different states of the button.Requirements: Any Modern Browsers with CSS Support
Demo: http://www.oscaralexander.com/tutorials/how-to-make-sexy-buttons…
License: License Free
In many cases when we are developing a web site or web application, our traget market might not only be one country. We might provide different version for various people in different region or country. Here is a Flag Button Developement Kit created by Bartelme Design. We can create different flag buttons for different country easily.
Requirements: No RequirementsBeautiful Scalable CSS Buttons
Demo: http://www.bartelme.at/journal/archive/flag_button_devkit/
License: License Free
31 May
David’s Kitchen wrote an article: Scalable CSS Buttons Using PNG and Background Colors taught us how to create dynamic CSS Buttons using PNG, transparency and background colors that degrades nicely and supports full scalability.It is really handy for developers because the length of the button will be changed according to the length of the text. The buttons are very pretty with Web 2.0 style. The color of the button changed if you hover on it. However, the buttons are not looking very nice in Internet Explorer 6.0, hope there is a version which supports IE 6.0 as well soon.
Requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0+, Firefox 1.5+
Demo: http://monc.se/kitchen/stew/buttons/btn.html
License: No License
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