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Usage

HTML 4 says, "Buttons created with the button element function just like buttons created with the input element, but they offer richer rendering possibilities: the button element may have content."

Attributes

• disabled
• name
• type
• value

Browser compatibility

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Watchout : IE has a very dirty implementation of the Button element, the value attribute is ignored and instead uses innerHTML.

Further reading

• The button element in HTML 4
• the button element on MSDN
• The history of the button element on blooberry.com