While last time we’ve created simple
CSS3 gradient buttons, this time we’ll build some nice CSS3 buttons with icons.
In order to create the icons, this set of CSS3 buttons uses
HTML entities. Also,
gradients,
shadows and many other CSS3 features do not miss.
DEMO
Minimal markup
href="" class="button">Button
Simple button, with no icon.
href="" class="button add">Add
Note the add class who adds the plus icon.
CSS
Below you can find the styles used to create the buttons and icons:
.button
{
display: inline-block;
white-space: nowrap;
background-color: #ccc;
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#eee), to(#ccc));
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #ccc);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #ccc);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #ccc);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eee, #ccc);
background-image: linear-gradient(top, #eee, #ccc);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr='#eeeeee', EndColorStr='#cccccc');
border: 1px solid #777;
padding: 0 1.5em;
margin: 0.5em;
font: bold 1em/2em Arial, Helvetica;
text-decoration: none;
color: #333;
text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.8);
-moz-border-radius: .2em;
-webkit-border-radius: .2em;
border-radius: .2em;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,.8) inset, 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.3);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,.8) inset, 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.3);
box-shadow: 0 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,.8) inset, 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.3);
}
.button:hover
{
background-color: #ddd;
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#fafafa), to(#ddd));
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #fafafa, #ddd);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #fafafa, #ddd);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #fafafa, #ddd);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #fafafa, #ddd);
background-image: linear-gradient(top, #fafafa, #ddd);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorStr='#fafafa', EndColorStr='#dddddd');
}
.button:active
{
-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 4px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.3) inset;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 4px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.3) inset;
box-shadow: 0 0 4px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.3) inset;
position: relative;
top: 1px;
}
.button:focus
{
outline: 0;
background: #fafafa;
}
.button:before
{
background: #ccc;
background: rgba(0,0,0,.1);
float: left;
width: 1em;
text-align: center;
font-size: 1.5em;
margin: 0 1em 0 -1em;
padding: 0 .2em;
-moz-box-shadow: 1px 0 0 rgba(0,0,0,.5), 2px 0 0 rgba(255,255,255,.5);
-webkit-box-shadow: 1px 0 0 rgba(0,0,0,.5), 2px 0 0 rgba(255,255,255,.5);
box-shadow: 1px 0 0 rgba(0,0,0,.5), 2px 0 0 rgba(255,255,255,.5);
-moz-border-radius: .15em 0 0 .15em;
-webkit-border-radius: .15em 0 0 .15em;
border-radius: .15em 0 0 .15em;
pointer-events: none;
}
/* Hexadecimal entities for the icons */
.add:before
{
content: "\271A";
}
.edit:before
{
content: "\270E";
}
.delete:before
{
content: "\2718";
}
.save:before
{
content: "\2714";
}
.email:before
{
content: "\2709";
}
.like:before
{
content: "\2764";
}
.next:before
{
content: "\279C";
}
.star:before
{
content: "\2605";
}
.spark:before
{
content: "\2737";
}
.play:before
{
content: "\25B6";
}
Scalability
You just need to change the font-size value from the following shorthand declaration:
font: bold 1em/2em Arial, Helvetica;There you go, you’ve just increased/decreased the button’s size!
Rendering & browsers support
The icons are added using the
:before pseudo-element. Therefore, you won’t see any icons in browsers like IE7 and below, but the buttons will look good yet.
Different
operating systems and different browsers means different rendering for
the HTML entities we used as icons. If you want to use another icons
instead, you could try something like
Pictos.
