That's obvious: Buttons are a very important part of a website: They're the most common way your visitors can trigger an action and interact with your website. Sadly, even theses days many web pages still displays ugly buttons. Here's our "Top Ten" CSS buttons tutorial list, for giving your buttons, submits and links the beauty they deserve.

How to make sexy buttons with CSS


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Scalable CSS buttons with PNG images and background colors


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Sexy CSS Hover Button


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CSS Submit buttons


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Simple Round CSS Buttons ( Wii Buttons )


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Make fancy buttons using CSS sliding doors technique


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Beautiful CSS buttons with icon set


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Sliding Doors buttons using only 1 image


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Rediscovering the button element


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Using sliding doors in Wordpress


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87 Comments

  1. johndesign
    Posted July 8, 2008 at 8:30 am | Permalink

    Great list. You seems to really love sliding doors technique btw!

  2. Posted July 8, 2008 at 7:06 pm | Permalink

    great post. I was just recently looking for some inspiration on css buttons, and found some of these, but not all. Nice job.

  3. Posted July 9, 2008 at 2:52 am | Permalink

    Great resource! Loving the scalable buttons.

  4. Todd
    Posted July 11, 2008 at 3:39 pm | Permalink

    Be sure to check out this site for a button technique that responds as if it were a flash animation. Very cool. (Button example is at the end of the post…hover over and click)

    http://blog.visualxs.com/2008/02/amish-will-hate-these-buttons.html

  5. d
    Posted July 11, 2008 at 5:00 pm | Permalink

    Don’t forget CSSButtons.net. Its number one on a google search for CSS Buttons

  6. Posted July 11, 2008 at 6:55 pm | Permalink

    coo! this is great for css beginners like me. keep up the good work!

  7. Posted July 11, 2008 at 7:14 pm | Permalink

    @Todd: Thanks for the link. It should have been inclued in the list for sure!
    @ericb: Thanks a lot for your kind words!

  8. Posted July 11, 2008 at 7:46 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for you mentioned :)

  9. Posted July 12, 2008 at 8:45 am | Permalink

    These rock, hope to integrate some soon.

    http://www.duivesteyn.com.au
    http://www.duivesteyn.net

  10. Posted July 12, 2008 at 9:28 am | Permalink

    Loads of buttons for inspiration can be found here:
    http://www.dragnet.se/webbdesign/button_collection.html

  11. Posted July 14, 2008 at 7:17 pm | Permalink

    Amazing, great resource, i looking for a sliding techniques and i found this resource!

  12. Posted July 15, 2008 at 1:28 pm | Permalink

    great list.

  13. Posted July 15, 2008 at 8:43 pm | Permalink

    thanks for the great tips.

  14. Posted July 16, 2008 at 12:26 am | Permalink
  15. Posted July 16, 2008 at 3:35 pm | Permalink

    great stuff
    thanks for sharing it
    Nice [post thanks for sharing it

    jasmine celion
    cool-hotstuff.blogspot.com

  16. Posted July 18, 2008 at 1:09 pm | Permalink

    thanks for great buttons :)

  17. Posted July 18, 2008 at 3:31 pm | Permalink

    Nice post. great recource for buttons.
    Here is another css navigation system using sprite images. Probably worth taking a look at: http://tinyurl.com/4bajrl

  18. Posted July 18, 2008 at 3:59 pm | Permalink

    Great menu, Bob! Did you saw our last post about apple.com menu?

  19. Posted July 22, 2008 at 6:00 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for this tip. I am going to use it.

    http://onlinelar.blogspot.com/

  20. Posted July 30, 2008 at 12:44 pm | Permalink

    This is a nice posting. I really like this post. Thanks for your great tips.

  21. Posted July 31, 2008 at 1:19 pm | Permalink

    Nice resource list!!

  22. Posted August 6, 2008 at 4:01 pm | Permalink

    Thanks, been looking for such list!

  23. Posted August 6, 2008 at 5:10 pm | Permalink

    Superb list!!!! Am going to try out several techniques. It’s a real find! Thank you for sharing!

  24. Posted August 7, 2008 at 10:55 am | Permalink

    Thanks a lot. Very useful info.
    http://rajupp.frih.org/WordPress/

  25. Posted August 11, 2008 at 6:21 am | Permalink

    Nice roundup!

  26. Posted August 29, 2008 at 2:18 pm | Permalink

    thank you for sharing

  27. Posted August 30, 2008 at 7:32 am | Permalink

    Hmm.. not a bad list, but defiantly styles that have been used ad nauseum.

  28. Posted September 1, 2008 at 12:38 pm | Permalink

    Nice Looking Buttons, especially the sliding doors, always a fave. thanks

  29. Posted October 13, 2008 at 1:19 am | Permalink

    cool tips, looks really interesting

  30. Posted October 22, 2008 at 10:04 pm | Permalink

    Thnx for list all this tutz :)

    Good job .. its easier my way …

  31. Posted October 25, 2008 at 5:16 pm | Permalink

    Second one is my favorite.
    Thank you for that great post.

  32. Posted October 27, 2008 at 12:26 am | Permalink

    Great post. As a web designer I found it inspiring. Thanx.

  33. Posted October 30, 2008 at 2:32 am | Permalink

    WOW, what a resource. Cat who code is really rocks!!!
    Thank you for providing all those. As a graphic designer, it is good if someone can make beautiful design with css, not only with images.

  34. Posted November 10, 2008 at 8:06 am | Permalink

    great post! … ure doing a big favor for neophyte bloggers like me… keep it up!

  35. Posted November 25, 2008 at 12:37 am | Permalink

    Loving the scalable buttons. Thanks for collecting all this button tutorial

  36. Posted November 25, 2008 at 12:38 am | Permalink

    Another great list I found today

  37. Posted November 26, 2008 at 12:41 pm | Permalink

    that is good!

  38. Posted December 1, 2008 at 3:18 am | Permalink

    Great resource! Will bookmark for future reference.

  39. Posted December 23, 2008 at 5:27 am | Permalink

    If you’re looking for an expandable button, http://www.webfixtech.com/development_cssbutton.php
    Oh, and it works in a form, as an input element.
    It’s just the background image, the rounded corners are created by using CSS borders.

  40. Posted January 7, 2009 at 2:38 pm | Permalink

    Excellent resource, has Great collections

  41. Posted January 9, 2009 at 8:49 am | Permalink

    very nice button tutorials : )

  42. Posted January 11, 2009 at 10:41 am | Permalink

    First source link is down, anyways a very nice collection of articles on CSS buttons.
    Thanks

  43. Posted January 11, 2009 at 3:02 pm | Permalink

    Great buttons mate, way to go with freebies.

  44. Derek
    Posted January 12, 2009 at 8:51 pm | Permalink

    4th source link is gone

  45. Posted January 13, 2009 at 1:12 am | Permalink

    Great list and great technique, this is the way to make a nice and simple menu that works!

  46. Posted January 15, 2009 at 5:16 pm | Permalink

    cool buttons – going to try out some of these styles. You are a star for posting this :)

  47. Posted January 15, 2009 at 5:17 pm | Permalink

    This post rocks! You are wonderful fella for stuck this up – will say me so much time in development.

  48. Posted January 27, 2009 at 10:44 pm | Permalink

    What a great buttons, I will surely use them somewhere. Thanks

  49. Posted February 5, 2009 at 9:31 pm | Permalink

    wow nice list of buttons. I will be book marking this page, thanks

  50. Posted February 5, 2009 at 9:33 pm | Permalink

    you should be charging for these, but glad you are not. Incrediable images (buttons)

  51. Posted February 5, 2009 at 9:34 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for a ton of buttons, just hoping everyone doesn’t use these so I can and still look semi unique :)

  52. Posted February 9, 2009 at 1:11 am | Permalink

    Great list of tutorials! Bookmarked, thanks

  53. Posted February 10, 2009 at 11:37 am | Permalink

    WOW, what a resource. Cat who rule is thoroughly rocks!!!
    Thank you through providing whole-length those. As a powerful designer, veritable is appropriate if someone amenability enter on classy organize with css, not own with images.

  54. Posted February 14, 2009 at 11:25 am | Permalink

    Great list, I really needed som CSS button tutorials and you have them all listed here. I gave it a thumbup on SU! Great work man!

  55. Posted February 25, 2009 at 2:54 pm | Permalink

    Very usefull. Thanks a lot …
    Here a good Tutorial (in german) : http://www.keasone.de/development/2007-05/css-buttons-erstellen-sexy

  56. Posted February 25, 2009 at 8:21 pm | Permalink

    Just when I needed some nice semantic xhtml buttons, to style with CSS here’s a perfect list.

    Thanks!

  57. Posted February 26, 2009 at 1:49 am | Permalink

    Nice Looking Buttons, especially the sliding doors, always a favorite.

  58. Posted February 26, 2009 at 5:54 pm | Permalink

    the tutorial list is cool, I will surely use them somewhere. Thanks

  59. Posted February 28, 2009 at 3:32 pm | Permalink

    Just when I needed some nice semantic xhtml buttons, to style with CSS here’s a perfect list.

  60. Posted March 3, 2009 at 5:33 pm | Permalink

    Thanks alot for this very helpful post.

  61. Posted March 5, 2009 at 9:08 pm | Permalink

    great tips about coding , i’m not professional in CSS but i think that this looks like easy courses in CSS usage , thanks

  62. Posted March 6, 2009 at 3:48 pm | Permalink

    I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve come across websites with atrocious looking buttons lol. These are all pretty simple yet very nice. My favorite has to be the CSS Submit Buttons. With that said though, I like the submit button of this site!

  63. Posted March 6, 2009 at 8:00 pm | Permalink

    The sliding doors look great, I remember when i started off and i didn’t know about CSS, old times lol!

  64. Posted March 10, 2009 at 2:38 pm | Permalink

    Wow! css buttons with iconset was just what i needed. subtle and efective. Not to much blabla just clear communication. I like it. Cheers! Betty

  65. Posted April 9, 2009 at 9:50 pm | Permalink

    Great post. Thanks for the info, it will come in useful.

  66. Posted April 11, 2009 at 9:55 pm | Permalink

    your collection is too good……

  67. Posted April 23, 2009 at 8:27 am | Permalink

    Thanks a lot, thats a great collection

  68. Posted May 3, 2009 at 5:45 am | Permalink

    This is an excellent collection of css buttons. In my opinion, the sliding doors technique with a single image is the best way to do it.

  69. Posted May 4, 2009 at 3:49 pm | Permalink

    very nice and amazing button, really they are appreciated and too much problem resolving

  70. Posted May 13, 2009 at 10:54 am | Permalink

    cool buttons – going to try out some of these styles

  71. Jogis
    Posted May 13, 2009 at 2:31 pm | Permalink

    Very useful list. Thx!

  72. Posted May 22, 2009 at 7:08 pm | Permalink

    I’m bookmarking this post – love the buttons from woork (with the icon set), particletree and the sliding doors buttons in wordpress.

  73. Posted June 1, 2009 at 6:40 pm | Permalink

    Very nice list of buttons. Do you have more? We have been looking to do our site in a more web 2.0 look, not sure if we are completly going to 2.0 though.

  74. Posted June 9, 2009 at 6:00 pm | Permalink

    this is great. I’ve been looking for these kind of buttons for a while now.

  75. Posted June 10, 2009 at 2:58 am | Permalink

    I was trying to learn how to code in CSS and got stuck with the “look” I wanted. Good thing I stumbled upon this. Great job, it was really helpful.

  76. Posted June 19, 2009 at 5:32 pm | Permalink

    Very nice tutorial list! I absolutely the sliding door effect, I want to apply it on my portfolio sometime. It is the best technique in my opinion.

  77. Posted July 17, 2009 at 7:07 pm | Permalink

    Sweet buttons. Those can really add to the dynamics of any site.

  78. Posted July 23, 2009 at 7:53 pm | Permalink

    Here’s my new button. It’s like the sliding doors button, but obviously can’t be using sliding doors, because the transparent parts won’t cover the other half. I called it “the levitating submit button”, since works as a submit, and donesn’t use extra markup to achieve the same result. Same transparent, 1 single image, doesn’t depend on opaque corners to hide a thing or on a same-color background, uses less code.
    http://seosumo.com/simplest-transparent-css-submit-button-ever

  79. Posted August 15, 2009 at 3:11 am | Permalink

    Great Buttons. Thanks for sharing

  80. Posted August 23, 2009 at 12:33 pm | Permalink

    Its a great post as it helps us to update our knowledge and use it at the time of need.

  81. Posted August 24, 2009 at 8:03 am | Permalink

    Always nice and great menu tutorial here

  82. Posted September 18, 2009 at 3:30 pm | Permalink

    Awesome buttons. I love CSS and these tutorials will help a lot!

  83. Posted October 9, 2009 at 9:07 am | Permalink

    Thank you so much for your help. Was working on my site and get stucked and you solved my problem!

  84. Posted December 24, 2009 at 12:40 am | Permalink

    Good job! I love the professional look and the easy of use. Those can really add to the dynamics of any site.

  85. Posted December 30, 2009 at 3:18 pm | Permalink

    the above link for “CSS Submit buttons” is broken.

  86. Posted January 4, 2010 at 11:51 am | Permalink

    Nice info, Useful for my job…this has made my life (my projects) goes a lot easier. Keep up the good work, thanks very much… :)

  87. Posted March 9, 2010 at 10:54 pm | Permalink

    Yeah, love your collection. This makes me inspire to create one of this. Awesome.

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