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id: howto-css-pill-button
title: "How To - Pill Buttons"
category: "Web_Recipes"
status: "draft"
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aliases: ["rounded button CSS"]
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confidence_score: 0.77
created_at: 2026-07-04
updated_at: 2026-07-04
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tags: ["howto", "css", "w3schools", "buttons"]
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# [[HOWTO CSS Pill Button]]

## 🎯 한 줄 통찰 (One-line insight)
A "pill" shape is simply `border-radius` set LARGER than half the button's own height — at `16px` against a button whose padding produces roughly that height, the corners round out so far that they meet, turning the rectangle's short ends into full semicircles, which is the exact same property (`border-radius`) that `[[HOWTO CSS Round Buttons]]` uses at `50%` to make a full circle — pill and circle buttons are two points on the SAME radius-value spectrum, not different techniques. [S1]

## 🧠 핵심 개념 (Core concepts)
- **`border-radius: 16px`** — large enough relative to the button's height that the short ends become fully rounded semicircles, producing the "pill" look. [S1]

## 📖 세부 내용 (Details)
- `.button { background-color: #ddd; border: none; padding: 10px 20px; border-radius: 16px; }`. [S1]

## ⚖️ 모순 및 업데이트 (Contradictions & updates)
- **Round Buttons와 동일한 속성의 다른 값**: `[[HOWTO CSS Round Buttons]]`가 `border-radius: 50%`로 완전한 원을 만드는 것과 달리, 이 레시피는 `16px`이라는 절댓값으로 버튼 높이의 절반 이상을 채워 알약 모양을 만든다는 점이 확인됨 — 같은 속성의 스펙트럼 상 다른 지점일 뿐, 별개 기법이 아님. [S1]

## 🛠️ 적용 사례 (Applied in summary)
사각형 버튼과 알약 모양 버튼을 나란히 비교하는 예제가 원문에서 직접 제시됨. [S1]

## 💻 코드 패턴 (Code patterns)
Pill-shaped button via a large border-radius (CSS):
```css
.button {
  background-color: #ddd;
  border: none;
  padding: 10px 20px;
  border-radius: 16px;
}
```

## ✅ 검증 상태 및 신뢰도
- **상태:** draft
- **검증 단계:** conceptual
- **출처 신뢰도:** B (W3Schools — widely used educational reference)
- **신뢰 점수:** 0.77
- **중복 검사 결과:** 신규 생성 (New discovery)

## 🔗 지식 그래프 (Knowledge Graph)
- **상위/루트:** [[W3Schools HOW TO]]
- **관련 개념:** [[HOWTO CSS Round Buttons]], [[HOWTO CSS Pill Nav]]
- **참조 맥락:** CSS Buttons 섹션.

## 📚 출처 (Sources)
- [S1] W3Schools — How To - Pill Buttons — https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_pill_button.asp

## 📝 변경 이력 (Change history)
- 2026-07-04: Initial draft synthesized from the W3Schools "How To - Pill Buttons" recipe (Astra wiki-curation, P-Reinforce v3.1 format).