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Re: Links vs buttons

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From: Rakesh
Date: Sep 15, 2013 5:35AM

Thank you all for the discussion. Here is the article after summarizing
the information.
http://www.maxability.co.in/2013/09/links-vs-buttons/

Thanks once again for your support.
Thanks & Regards
Rakesh

On 9/12/2013 9:17 PM, Greg Gamble wrote:
> A rough rule is links are external and buttons are internal. There is some crossover, but not much.
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> Greg Gamble
> SBCTC - Olympia | Information Services
> p - 360-704-4376
>  think before printing
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Rakesh
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 10:11 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: [WebAIM] Links vs buttons
>
> Hi all,
>
> Most of the times I am confused where to use buttons and where to use links. Tried researching on it but I could not get a solid answer.
> I am very much interested in righting a blog on the same.
>
> To me button is used when an action is associated with the element such as 'Submit", "continue", "next", "cancel", Add to cart (in e-commerce websites), Proceed", close" etc. Also when a pop-up opens to provide context help "help", etc. While links are only used to connect the web pages either through "href" or by calling some functions via scripting.The other way to put it is input buttons are used wen a visuall indication off buttton is provided on the page else use a link.
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> Is my understanding correct. Can you throw some light on it.
>
> Thanks& Regards
> Rakesh
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