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CSS Styling for a Button: Using <input type="button> instead of <button>

Asked 2012-06-15T15:16:28.553
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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?

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<!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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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);
}

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answered 2012-06-15T15:24:11.310

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