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title: How to Create an HTML Button That Acts Like a Link
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## How to Create an HTML Button That Acts Like a Link
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Sometimes you may want to use a button to link to another page or website rather than to submit a form or something like that. This is fairly simple to do and can be achieved in several ways.
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One way is to simply wrap your `<button>` tag in an `<a>` tag:
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```html
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<a href='https://www.freecodecamp.org/'><button>Link To freeCodeCamp</button></a>
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```
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This transforms your entire button into a link.
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A second option is to create your link as you normally would with your `<a>` tag and then style it via CSS:
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```html
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<a href='https://www.freecodecamp.org/'>Link To freeCodeCamp</a>
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```
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Once you've created your link, you can then use CSS to make it look like a button. For instance, you could add a border, a background color, some styles for when the user is hovering the link...
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Another way to add a button is to wrap an `input` inside `form` tags. Specify the desired target URL in the form action attribute.
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```html
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<form action="http://google.com">
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<input type="submit" value="Go to Google" />
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</form>
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```
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#### More Information:
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* [FreeCodeCamp Guide - styling buttons](https://guide.freecodecamp.org/css/css-buttons/)
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* [How to create an HTML button that acts like a link?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2906582/how-to-create-an-html-button-that-acts-like-a-link)
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