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Re: Do Web developers tend to dislike the button element?

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From: Mallory
Date: Aug 14, 2020 6:20AM

One issue I remember with IE and buttons was a thick black outline which was difficult to remove. It only appeared in a certain state or situation, but it had plenty of its own threads in forums.
Another issue which hit IE7 and 8 (but I don't think 9+) was most buttons are inline-block but in IE they'd be full width like a block. The solution was to add two lines of CSS (overflow: visible plus width: auto), but if you didn't know it would work with those 2 lines, it was a lot of frustration, lol.

cheers,
_mallory

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, at 3:00 PM, Swift, Daniel P. wrote:
> I also remember running into functional problems with older versions of
> IE and the button element. I can't remember what the specific problems
> were (going back 5 or so years), but it was enough of a show stopper
> that we could not use them.
>
> Dan Swift
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> West Chester University
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> element?
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> Historically, <button> elements used to be very stubborn against
> restyling cross-browser. One of the last annoying issues nowadays is in
> IE11 (where still supported by a site), where by default <button> has a
> visible "dipping" behaviour of one or two pixels when active, and it
> needs a lot of fiddling (last time I looked, including an additional
> wrapper element) to get rid of that.
>
> There also used to be some funky behaviour when it came to events,
> bubbling, etc in some browsers. That has luckily gone by the wayside now...
>
> Because of this history, a lot of articles, how-tos, libraries, etc used
> other elements like <a href="#"> or <span>s and <div>s...and this
> tradition stuck.
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