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CSS Basics: Styling Links Like a Boss

You are probably well acquainted with how links looks without any styling at all. That blue. That underline. That's a link in it's purest form. But what if we want to change things up a bit? Perhaps blue doesn't work with your website's design. Maybe you have an aversion to underlines. Whatever the reason, CSS lets us style links just like any other element.

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A Bit on Buttons

Here's three recent things that have come across my desk in recent days regarding buttons. One, an accessibility flub that needed to be fixed. Two, an article about the fundamental differences between links and buttons but how they can look too similar for our own good. Three, the logical extreme of the button element: never use them outside of forms unless injected with JavaScript.

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When To Use The Button Element

You use it when, uhm, you want a button on your page that users can click, right? Well, unfortunately it’s a bit more complicated than that. It’s not too bad though, let’s figure it out.…

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