Create a Link Button

Tutorial » Create a Link Button

Normally a button is created using <button/> element. A link button is created using <a/> element, so in fact a link button is a <a/> element but show a button style.

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To create a link button, all you want to do is to add the class attribute named 'easyui-linkbutton' to the <a/> element:

<div style="padding:5px;background:#fafafa;width:500px;border:1px solid #ccc">
		<a href="#" class="easyui-linkbutton" iconCls="icon-cancel">Cancel</a>
		<a href="#" class="easyui-linkbutton" iconCls="icon-reload">Refresh</a>
		<a href="#" class="easyui-linkbutton" iconCls="icon-search">Query</a>
		<a href="#" class="easyui-linkbutton">text button</a>
		<a href="#" class="easyui-linkbutton" iconCls="icon-print">Print</a>
	</div>
	 
	<div style="padding:5px;background:#fafafa;width:500px;border:1px solid #ccc">
		<a href="#" class="easyui-linkbutton" plain="true" iconCls="icon-cancel">Cancel</a>
		<a href="#" class="easyui-linkbutton" plain="true" iconCls="icon-reload">Refresh</a>
		<a href="#" class="easyui-linkbutton" plain="true" iconCls="icon-search">Query</a>
		<a href="#" class="easyui-linkbutton" plain="true">text button</a>
		<a href="#" class="easyui-linkbutton" plain="true" iconCls="icon-print">Print</a>
		<a href="#" class="easyui-linkbutton" plain="true" iconCls="icon-help"></a>
		<a href="#" class="easyui-linkbutton" plain="true" iconCls="icon-save"></a>
		<a href="#" class="easyui-linkbutton" plain="true" iconCls="icon-back"></a>
	</div>

As you can see, the iconCls attribute is a icon CSS class that show an icon image on button.

Sometime you decide to disable a link button or enable it, below code demostrate how to disable a link button: