form: Associates the button with a specific form within the same HTML document, using the identifier of the form as the value.Only one autofocus can be used on a page. autofocus: When the page loads, this option specifies that this button is the focus.So stick with using the traditional as much as possible. This might be a slightly advanced topic, but in short, we want to help search engines to find relevant links on the webpage as easily as possible.įor example, if we have a page about how to play the piano, we will want to include relevant links to other relevant piano pages… But here’s the problem – Search engines won’t necessarily follow all the Javascripts and forms to see where they lead to. The main reasons are actually the ease of implementation, and for the purpose of search engine optimization (SEO). Personally, I will either wrap the button in a link or use CSS to turn the link into a button. That’s all for this tutorial, and here is a small section on some extras and links that may be useful to you.

So yes, we can have the best of both worlds – Wrap buttons in links. It is not a secret, we can wrap images in links. Yes, we can even customize a link to look exactly like a button… But it is still essentially a link. The beauty of HTML and CSS – We can pretty much customize almost every element. METHOD 4) TURN LINK INTO BUTTON WITH CSS In the case of “button to link”, we can use it as a convenience to create multiple links in a single form. The formaction is a property added in HTML5, and it is actually used to submit a form to an alternative URL. Take note that we are using here instead of – Submit will process the form when clicked, a button will not.Otherwise if not defined, it will default to target='_self' and open in the same window. We can also add a target='_blank' to open in a new tab.Change the action='URL' to redirect the user to where you want.A couple of short notes for the absolute beginners: Who says that we can’t use forms in creative ways? The above will submit an empty form, which effectively acts just like a link. Both will still work, location is a synonym of location.href. That is not wrong and is the “old fashion” way of redirecting. You will notice that some other tutorials use location.href = 'URL' instead. location = 'URL' will set where to redirect to when the button is clicked.The onclick property is used to specify what to do when the button is clicked.The easiest way to create a button link is probably to handle it with a little bit of Javascript. All right, let us now get into the various ways to create a “button link” in HTML.

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