I am doing the following:
<a href="www.stackoverflow.com">
<button disabled="disabled" >ABC</button>
</a>
This works good but I get a HTML5 validation error that says "Element 'button' must not be nested within element 'a button'.
Can anyone give me advice on what I should do?
No, it isn't valid HTML5 according to the HTML5 Spec Document from W3C:
Content model: Transparent, but there must be no interactive content descendant.
The a element may be wrapped around entire paragraphs, lists, tables, and so forth, even entire sections, so long as there is no interactive content within (e.g. buttons or other links).
In other words, you can nest any elements inside an <a> except the following:
<a>
<audio> (if the controls attribute is present)
<button>
<details>
<embed>
<iframe>
<img> (if the usemap attribute is present)
<input> (if the type attribute is not in the hidden state)
<keygen>
<label>
<menu> (if the type attribute is in the toolbar state)
<object> (if the usemap attribute is present)
<select>
<textarea>
<video> (if the controls attribute is present)
If you are trying to have a button that links to somewhere, wrap that button inside a <form> tag as such:
<form style="display: inline" action="http://example.com/" method="get">
<button>Visit Website</button>
</form>
However, if your <button> tag is styled using CSS and doesn't look like the system's widget... Do yourself a favor, create a new class for your <a> tag and style it the same way.
If you're using Bootstrap 3, this works quite well
<a href="#" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg active" role="button">Primary link</a>
<a href="#" class="btn btn-default btn-lg active" role="button">Link</a>
I've just jumped into the same issue and I solved it substituting 'button' tag to 'span' tag. In my case I'm using bootstrap. This is how it looks like:
<a href="#register">
<span class="btn btn-default btn-lg">
Subscribe
</span>
</a>
<a>, which is part of the link, but not styled like a button. For example, any click within a div (image, background, text, etc) goes to a link, but only the span looks like a button.No.
The following solution relies on JavaScript.
<button type="button" onclick="location.href='http://www.stackoverflow.com'">ABC</button>
If the button is to be placed inside an existing <form> with method="post", then ensure the button has the attribute type="button" otherwise the button will submit the POST operation. In this way you can have a <form> that contains a mixture of GET and POST operation buttons.
<a> inside the <button> (with the same href) as a backup if JS is disabled, and six months from now I'm definitely going to be embarrassed that I admitted that.These days even if the spec doesn't allow it, it "seems" to still work to embed the button within a <a href...><button ...></a> tag, FWIW...
<button> is not contained within a <form>. However, as soon as the button is contained (eg, <form>...<a><button>) this stops working, unless one disables the button's on-click handler. This is enough gyrations to warrant avoiding this scenario.
It would be really weird if that was valid, and I would expect it to be invalid. What should it mean to have one clickable element inside of another clickable element? Which is it -- a button, or a link?
border: 2px outset. If you want to round the corners a bit you could use a border-radius on it as well. A simple <img> tag would work well too.Another option is to use the onclick attribute of the button:
<button disabled="disabled" onClick="location.href='www.stackoverflow.com'" >ABC</button>
This works, however, the user won't see the link displayed on hover as they would if it were inside the element.
You can add a class to the button and put some script redirecting it.
I do it this way:
<button class='buttonClass'>button name</button>
<script>
$(".buttonClass').click(function(){
window.location.href = "http://stackoverflow.com";
});
</script>
why not..you can also embeded picture on button as well
<FORM method = "POST" action = "https://stackoverflow.com">
<button type="submit" name="Submit">
<img src="img/Att_hack.png" alt="Text">
</button>
</FORM>
Explanation and working solution here: Howto: div with onclick inside another div with onclick javascript
by executing this script in your inner click handler:
if (!e) var e = window.event;
e.cancelBubble = true;
if (e.stopPropagation) e.stopPropagation();
my answer is link this
a[role=button] {
align-items: center;
background-color: #0A66C2;
border: 0;
border-radius: 100px;
box-sizing: border-box;
color: #ffffff;
cursor: pointer;
padding:15px;
margin:10px;
}<a role="button">
GO BACK
</a>Use formaction attribute inside the button
PS! It only works if your button type="submit"
<button type="submit" formaction="www.youraddress.com">Submit</button>
