Rendering buttons 1

[jimmyshoes]

i want to create some nice looking buttons!

Is it a bad idea to use images for buttons
For example

<a href="somefile.html" onclick="document.myform.submit();return false;"
><img alt="Submit" src="submit.gif"></a>

Is it better to style <input type="submit"> ?

 

[vacunita]

2 things:

1. if for any reason a user disables Javascript your submit button will no longer work.

2. If your form processing script expects the existence of the submit button value to process the form, it will submit the form but no processing will take place.

You can of course use an image input type.
This creates an actual submit button with an image you can control.

<input type=image src="mybutton.jpg">

And requires no JS to work.

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[jimmyshoes]

Thanks for your help