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There have been a few articles recently about Google's new imageless buttons: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/02/04/recreating-the-button.html http://stopdesign.com/eg/buttons/3.0/code.html http://stopdesign.com/eg/buttons/3.1/code.html http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-ways-to-label-with-move-to-and-auto.html I really like how these new buttons work in Gmail. How can I use these or similar buttons on my site? Are there any open source projects with a similar look & feel? If I wanted to roll my own button package like this using JQuery/XHTML/CSS, what elements could I use? My initial thoughts are: Standard <input type="button"> with css to improve the look (the design article talked mostly about the css/imges involves.) Jquery javascript to bring up a custom dialog rooted to the button on the "onclick" event which would have <a> tags in them and a search bar for filtering? Would a table layout for that popup be sane? I'm terrible at reverse engineering things on the web, what are some of the tools that I could use to help reverse engineer these buttons? Using Firefox's web developer toolbar I can't really see the css or javascript (even if it is minified) that is used on the buttons popup dialogs. What browser tool or other method could I use to peek at them and get some ideas? I'm not looking to steal any of Google's IP, just get an idea of how I could create similar button functionality.

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