button

button elements define actions that can be performed on the contents of a form.

Content category

• Flow
• Phrasing
• Interactive
• Form-associated:
  • Listed
  • Labelable
  • Submittable
  • Autocapitalise-inheriting
• Palpable

Pseudo-classes

• All in Input

Attributes

• disabled indicates that the control should be disabled.
• form allows explicit association of the element with a form (using its id).
• formaction, formenctype, formmethod, formnovalidate and formtarget override the form's corresponding elements.
• name specifies the name of the input control, and the name against which the value will be submitted. Without this, the value will not be included in submissions.
• type defines the default action of the button:
  • submit buttons submit the form.
  • button has no action by default.
  • reset creates a button which resets the values of all form elements to their default values. Use of this is usually an antipattern; it is not a commonly intended behaviour.
• value sets the initial value of the input. Note that button types display this on the control.

References

• MDN
• The button element in the HTML specification

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Backlinks

• Input (public)
• Labelable (public)
• label (public)