---
id: css-link-buttons
title: "CSS Link Buttons"
category: "Frontend"
status: "draft"
verification_status: "conceptual"
canonical_id: ""
aliases: ["link buttons", "button links", "CSS buttons", "styled links as buttons", "inline-block links"]
duplicate_of: ""
source_trust_level: "B"
confidence_score: 0.88
created_at: 2026-06-23
updated_at: 2026-06-23
review_reason: ""
merge_history: []
tags: ["css", "web", "frontend", "w3schools", "links", "buttons"]
raw_sources: ["https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_link_buttons.asp"]
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github_commit: ""
---

# [[CSS Link Buttons]]

## 🎯 한 줄 통찰 (One-line insight)
By combining several CSS properties — background color, padding, text alignment, removed underline, and `display: inline-block` — ordinary HTML links can be displayed as boxes or buttons that respond to hover. [S1]

## 🧠 핵심 개념 (Core concepts)
- **Links as buttons** — this is a demonstration of combining several CSS properties to display links as boxes/buttons. [S1]
- **Box model on links** — `padding`, `display: inline-block`, and `background-color` turn an inline link into a button-like box. [S1]
- **Hover feedback** — the `:hover`/`:active` states change the background (and optionally text) color for interactivity. [S1]

## 🧩 추출된 패턴 (Extracted patterns)
- **Filled button pattern** — solid background color with white text, padding, no underline, `inline-block`; darken background on hover. [S1]
- **Outlined button pattern** — white background with a colored border that inverts (fills) on hover. [S1]

## 📖 세부 내용 (Details)
This page demonstrates combining several CSS properties to display links as boxes/buttons. [S1]

**Example 1 — filled (red) button:** [S1]
```css
a:link, a:visited {
  background-color: #f44336;
  color: white;
  padding: 14px 25px;
  text-align: center;
  text-decoration: none;
  display: inline-block;
}

a:hover, a:active {
  background-color: red;
}
```

**Example 2 — outlined (green) button:** [S1]
```css
a:link, a:visited {
  background-color: white;
  color: black;
  border: 2px solid green;
  padding: 10px 20px;
  text-align: center;
  text-decoration: none;
  display: inline-block;
}

a:hover, a:active {
  background-color: green;
  color: white;
}
```

In both examples, the `:link` and `:visited` states define the default button appearance, while `:hover` and `:active` change the colors to give a clickable feel. The key properties are `background-color`, `color`, `padding`, `text-align`, `text-decoration: none`, `display: inline-block`, and (for example 2) `border`. [S1]

## 🛠️ 적용 사례 (Applied in summary)
The page's two examples apply the patterns to anchor elements: a filled red button and an outlined green button that inverts on hover. No external project/commit applications found in the source.

## 💻 코드 패턴 (Code patterns)
Filled link button (language: CSS):
```css
a:link, a:visited {
  background-color: #f44336;
  color: white;
  padding: 14px 25px;
  text-align: center;
  text-decoration: none;
  display: inline-block;
}
a:hover, a:active {
  background-color: red;
}
```

## ⚖️ 비교 및 선택 기준 (Comparison & decision criteria)
The page presents two button styles. The **filled button** (Example 1) uses a solid `background-color` with white text and darkens on hover — suited to primary call-to-action emphasis. The **outlined button** (Example 2) uses a white background with a `2px solid green` border and inverts to a filled green button on hover — a lighter-weight look for secondary actions. Both rely on the same box-model foundation (`padding`, `text-decoration: none`, `display: inline-block`); the choice is purely the default visual weight desired. [S1]

## ⚖️ 모순 및 업데이트 (Contradictions & updates)
No contradictions found in the source.

## ✅ 검증 상태 및 신뢰도
- **상태:** draft
- **검증 단계:** conceptual (실제 적용 사례 발견 시 applied/validated로 승격 가능)
- **출처 신뢰도:** B (W3Schools — widely used educational reference, not a primary standards body)
- **신뢰 점수:** 0.88
- **중복 검사 결과:** 신규 생성 (New discovery)

## 🔗 지식 그래프 (Knowledge Graph)
- **상위/루트:** [[CSS Tutorial]]
- **관련 개념:** [[CSS Styling Links]], [[CSS Buttons]], [[CSS Styling Lists]]
- **참조 맥락:** Referenced when an anchor link should look and behave like a clickable button.

## 📚 출처 (Sources)
- [S1] W3Schools — CSS Link Buttons — https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_link_buttons.asp

## 📝 변경 이력 (Change history)
- 2026-06-23: Initial draft synthesized from the W3Schools "CSS Link Buttons" page (Astra wiki-curation, P-Reinforce v3.1 format).
