Use any of the available button classes to quickly create a styled button.
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default">Default</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Primary</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-success">Success</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-info">Info</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-warning">Warning</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-danger">Danger</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-link">Link</button>
Fancy larger or smaller buttons? Add .btn-lg
, .btn-sm
, or .btn-xs
for additional sizes.
<p>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg">Large button</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-lg">Large button</button>
</p>
<p>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Default button</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default">Default button</button>
</p>
<p>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm">Small button</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Small button</button>
</p>
<p>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-xs">Extra small button</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-xs">Extra small button</button>
</p>
Create block level buttons—those that span the full width of a parent— by adding .btn-block
.
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg btn-block">Block level button</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-lg btn-block">Block level button</button>
Make buttons look unclickable by fading them back 50%.
Button element
Add the disabled
attribute to <button>
buttons.
<button type="button" class="btn btn-lg btn-primary" disabled="disabled">Primary button</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-lg" disabled="disabled">Button</button>
Cross-browser compatibility
If you add the disabled
attribute to a <button>
, Internet Explorer 9 and below will render text gray with a nasty text-shadow that we cannot fix.
Anchor element
Add the .disabled
class to <a>
buttons.
Primary link
Link
<a href="#" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg disabled">Primary link</a>
<a href="#" class="btn btn-default btn-lg disabled">Link</a>
We use .disabled
as a utility class here, similar to the common .active
class, so no prefix is required.
Link functionality not impacted
This class will only change the <a>
's appearance, not its functionality. Use custom JavaScript to disable links here.
Use the button classes on an <a>
, <button>
, or <input>
element.
<a class="btn btn-default" href="#">Link</a>
<button class="btn btn-default" type="submit">Button</button>
<input class="btn btn-default" type="submit" value="Submit">
<input class="btn btn-default" type="button" value="Input">
Cross-browser rendering
As a best practice, we highly recommend using the <button>
element whenever possible to ensure matching cross-browser rendering.
Among other things, there's a Firefox bug that prevents us from setting the line-height
of <input>
-based buttons, causing them to not exactly match the height of other buttons on Firefox.