Cascading Style Sheets add style to the web. And what could be more stylish than buttons?
Here is a list of tools and tutorials for creating CSS3 buttons. There are CSS3 button generators, tutorials for creating buttons entirely in CSS3, and sets of CSS3 buttons to use in your design. All of these resources are free.
CSS3 Button Tools and Tutorials
CSS3 Button Generator. CSS3 Button Generator is a nice generator that displays a big red funky button to manipulate. It provides advanced options for font/text, box, border, background and hover.
Change the settings and view the results of this button generator.
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CSS3-Tricks Button Maker. CSS3-Tricks Button Maker is a button generator with color selectors for top gradient, bottom gradient, top border, hover background, text, hover text, and active background.
Adjust this button generator’s selectors and preview the results.
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CSS3 Linear Gradient Buttons Generator. This button maker allows you to adjust gradient, border, box, text, and button states. Enter your preferences and preview, then press Get Code.
Set this button generator, preview, then press Get Code.
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CSS3 Button Generator. This is a simple button generator with options for background, border/padding, drop shadow, inner shadow, text font, and text shadows.
Create a button with background, border, shadow and text.
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CSS Social Buttons. The purpose of CSS Social Buttons is to provide a cross-browser, consistent and versatile CSS that can be applied in any design, app or theme. Basically, it is one master style-sheet that contains various design styles.
Use these CSS social buttons in sizes and styles.
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Animated Buttons with CSS3. This tutorial covers some CSS3 button experiments. The idea is to create some animated link elements with different styles, hover effects and active states.
Use this tutorial to create CSS3 button experiments.
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Just Some Other Awesome CSS3 Buttons. In this tutorial, build some nice CSS3 buttons with icons. To create the icons, this set of CSS3 buttons uses HTML entities, gradients, shadows, and many other CSS3 features.
Build CSS3 buttons with icons.
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Orman Clark’s Chunky 3D Web Buttons: The CSS3 Version. In this tutorial, learn to make CSS3 buttons based on a popular freebie Orman Clark made for his website Premium Pixel.
Learn to make chunky 3D CSS3 buttons.
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CSS Buttons with Pseudo-elements. This tutorial shows you hot to create buttons with a twist, using one anchor tag per button and the power of CSS.
Create buttons with one anchor tag and CSS.
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A Bunch of Soft, Customizable Pressure Buttons in CSS. This tutorial demonstrates how to create pressure style buttons. It uses multiple box shadows, a useful technique for adding depth when you don’t want to use gradients.
Create pressure style buttons in CSS, using box shadows.
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A Set of Simple CSS3 Buttons. This is a simple set of pre-made but extensible CSS3 buttons available in several different colors, configurations or sizes.
Here is a set of CSS3 buttons in colors and sizes.
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Code an Awesome Animated Download Button with CSS3. This tutorial creates a simple and fun download button using some fancy CSS3, border-radius, box-shadow, linear-gradients, z-index and transitions to achieve a unique double sliding drawer effect on hover.
Create a CSS3 download button with fancy effects.
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How to Create CSS3 Buttons. In this tutorial, make some cool CSS3 buttons. These buttons are based on the Futurico User Interface by Vladimir Kudinov. Try to make a precise copy of them.
Create cool CSS3 buttons from a well-known design.
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Free CSS3 Button Styles. These are 16 preset buttons included in this tutorial. Each one is very easy to modify and tweak to match the theme of your site. They are fully scalable and pure CSS.
Here is a set of pure CSS buttons to adjust for your site.
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Fancy 3D-Button. Here is a simple button, styled with different box-shadows for a 3D-look. The first value of the box-shadow is to give height and depth to the button and the second value is to give shadow to it. There is nothing else in this buttons except this clever use of box shadows.
This is button uses box-shadows for a 3D appearance.
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How to Create a Stylish Button Entirely with CSS3. This tutorial creates a button graphic entirely with CSS. Look at how CSS gradients, shadows, borders and transitions can all be combined to create a stylish button for your website.
Create a button entirely with CSS.
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CSS3 Buttons Tutorial. CSS3 buttons have the advantage of being easier for screen readers to process, as well as being lighter on your page load times. This tutorial demonstrates how to use CSS to style links to look like buttons, with minimal hassle.
Use CSS to style links to look like buttons.
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CSS3 Box-Shadow with Inset Values – The Aqua Button ReReVisited! This tutorial demonstrates how to create a cool CSS3 aqua button with no images.
Create a CSS3 aqua button.
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Zardi. Zardi is a pack of CSS3-only buttons. Free and ready to use in various shapes and colors. These buttons were made by Horacio Bella in the creative space provided by Beew.
Use this pack of CSS3-only buttons.
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