Question

I’m wondering about graphics on form buttons.

I’m using form buttons instead of links because, well, they look nicer.

Instead of this:

 print ('<A HREF="vote.php?vote=up" REL="nofollow">Vote +</A>&nbsp;');
 print ('<A HREF="vote.php?vote=dn" REL="nofollow">Vote -</A> ');

I have this:

 print ('<TD VALIGN="center"> ');
 print ('<FORM METHOD="post" ACTION="vote.php?vote=up" REL="nofollow"> ');
 print ('<P ALIGN="CENTER"> ');
 print ('<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Vote +" /> ');
 print ('</P> ');
 print ('</FORM> ');
 print ('</TD> ');
 print ('<TD VALIGN="center"> ');
 print ('<FORM METHOD="post" ACTION="vote.php?vote=dn" REL="nofollow"> ');
 print ('<P ALIGN="CENTER"> ');
 print ('<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Vote -" /> ');
 print ('</P> ');
 print ('</FORM> ');

Now, in this case, I would like to use thumbs up and down symbols on the buttons, instead of saying “Vote +” etc.

Is there a way to do that?

Answer 1

You can use CSS to style buttons including using an image. Here are some tutorials to help you out on this.

http://www.tyssendesign.com.au/articles/css/styling-form-buttons/

http://speckyboy.com/2009/05/27/22-css-button-styling-tutorials-and-techniques/