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I'm using the below CSS, but it puts an image in the center of the button. Any way to left or right align an icon using <input type="button">, so that the text and the image fit and align nicely?

background: url('/common/assets/images/icons/16x16/add.png');
background-position:center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
sshow
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Brett
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If you absolutely must use input, try this:

background-image: url(...);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: <left|right>;
padding-<left|right>: <width of image>px;

It's usually a little easier to use a button with an img inside:

<button type="submit"><img> Text</button>

However the browser implementations of button for submitting are inconsistent, as well as the fact that all button values are sent when button is used - which kills the "what button clicked" detection in a multi-submit form.

Delan Azabani
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  • don't have to, but I here button tag is buggy in ie 6 or behaves differently in some browsers? – Brett May 27 '10 at 10:02
  • As far as I've experienced, `button` (with type `submit`) works identically to `input` with the exception of allowing elements inside (rather than just styles applied to it). – Delan Azabani May 27 '10 at 10:09
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    The 'buggy' part of IE's ` – Duroth May 27 '10 at 10:15
  • Great point, Duroth. Yes, that's certainly a kicker for things like an edit post form that has "Preview" and "Submit", etc. – Delan Azabani May 27 '10 at 10:21
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    You can use `` – Darcy Jan 12 '11 at 20:41
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This should do do what you want, assuming your button image is 16 by 16 pixels.

<input type="button" value="Add a new row" class="button-add" />
input.button-add {
    background-image: url(/images/buttons/add.png); /* 16px x 16px */
    background-color: transparent; /* make the button transparent */
    background-repeat: no-repeat;  /* make the background image appear only once */
    background-position: 0px 0px;  /* equivalent to 'top left' */
    border: none;           /* assuming we don't want any borders */
    cursor: pointer;        /* make the cursor like hovering over an <a> element */
    height: 16px;           /* make this the size of your image */
    padding-left: 16px;     /* make text start to the right of the image */
    vertical-align: middle; /* align the text vertically centered */
}

Example button:

example button

Update

If you happen to use Less, this mixin might come in handy.

.icon-button(@icon-url, @icon-size: 16px, @icon-inset: 10px, @border-color: #000, @background-color: transparent) {
    height: @icon-size * 2;
    padding-left: @icon-size + @icon-inset * 2;
    padding-right: @icon-inset;
    border: 1px solid @border-color;
    background: @background-color url(@icon-url) no-repeat @icon-inset center;
    cursor: pointer;
}

input.button-add {
    .icon-button("http://placehold.it/16x16", @background-color: #ff9900);
}

The above compiles into

input.button-add {
  height: 32px;
  padding-left: 36px;
  padding-right: 10px;
  border: 1px solid #000000;
  background: #ff9900 url("http://placehold.it/16x16") no-repeat 10px center;
  cursor: pointer;
}

JSFiddle

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<button type="submit" style="background-color:transparent; border-color:transparent;"> 
  <img src="images/button/masuk.png" height="35"/>
</button>
<button type="reset" style="background-color:transparent; border-color:transparent;"> 
  <img src="images/button/reset.png" height="35"/>
</button>

I hope this helps you.

Craig
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Ferdiyan Syah
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If you're using spritesheets this becomes impossible and the element must be wrapped.

.btn{
    display: inline-block;
    background: blue;
    position: relative;
    border-radius: 5px;
}
.input, .btn:after{
    color: #fff;
}
.btn:after{
    position: absolute;
    content: '@';
    right: 0;
    width: 1.3em;
    height: 1em;
}
.input{
    background: transparent;
    color: #fff;
    border: 0;
    padding-right: 20px;
    cursor: pointer;
    position: relative;
    padding: 5px 20px 5px 5px;
    z-index: 1;
}

Check out this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/AJNnZ/

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you can try insert image inside button http://jsfiddle.net/s5GVh/1415/

<button type="submit"><img src='https://aca5.accela.com/bcc/app_themesDefault/assets/gsearch_disabled.png'/></button>
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What I would do is do this:

Use a button type

 <button type="submit" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.0); border:none;" id="resultButton" onclick="showResults();"><img src="images/search.png" /></button>

I used background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.0); So that the original background color of a button goes away. The same with the border:none; it will take the original border away.

James111
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you can try this trick!

1st) do this:

<label for="img">
   <input type="submit" name="submit" id="img" value="img-btn">
   <img src="yourimage.jpg" id="img">
</label>

2nd) style it!

<style type="text/css">
   img:hover {
       cursor: pointer;
   }
   input[type=submit] {
       display: none;
   }
</style>

It is not clean but it will do the job!

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Simply add icon in button element here is the example

   <button class="social-signup facebook"> 
     <i class="fa fa-facebook-official"></i>  
      Sign up with Facebook</button>
bilal
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This is the minimal style needed, fitting the image to the default button size:

<input type="button" value=" " style="background-image: url(http://www.geppoz.eu/geppoz.png);background-size:100% 100%;">

the "spaced" value is needed to keep baseline alignment, just in case you need it...

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sshow's answer did it for me, too:

navigation.css:

[...]

.buttonConfiguration {
    width: 40px;
    background-color: red; /* transparent; */
    border: none;
    color: white;
    padding: 5px 10px;
    text-align: center;
    text-decoration: none;
    display: inline-block;
    font-family: corbel;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-weight: normal;
    margin: 1px 1px;
    cursor: pointer;

    background-image: url('../images/icons5/gear_16.png');
    background-position: center; /* 0px 0px; */
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

[...]

frameMenu.php:

[... PHP, Javascript and HTML code ...]

<!-- <li><a target="frameBody" href="admin/conf/confFunctions.php"><input type="button" class="buttonSuperAdmin" value="<?= $oLanguage->getExpression('confSettings', 'title', 'C e n t e r s') ?>"></a> -->
<li><a target="frameBody" href="admin/conf/confFunctions.php"><input type="button" class="buttonConfiguration" value=""></a>
<ul>
<li><a target="frameBody" href="admin/conf/getglobals.php "><input type="button" class="buttonSuperAdminSub" value="<?= $oLanguage->getExpression('centerSettings', 'confAdmin1', 'GetGlobals') ?>"></a></li>
<li><a target="frameBody" href="admin/conf/getcwd.php "><input type="button" class="buttonSuperAdminSub" value="<?= $oLanguage->getExpression('confSettings', 'centerAdmin2', 'GetCWD') ?>"></a></li>
</ul>
</li>

[...]

I have tested this successfully under the lastest versions of Firefox and Chrome (as of February 9th, 2019).

mtjmohr
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What it looks like

This works well for me, and I'm handling hover and click CSS as well (by changing background color):

HTML (here showing 2 images, image1 on top of image2):

<button class="iconButton" style="background-image: url('image1.png'), url('image2.png')"
  onclick="alert('clicked');"></button>

CSS (my images are 32px X 32px, so I gave them 4px for padding and a 5px border rounding):

.iconButton {
    width: 36px;
    height: 36px;
    background-color: #000000;
    background-position: center;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    border: none;
    border-radius: 5px;
    cursor: pointer;
    outline: none;
}

.iconButton:hover {
    background-color: #303030;
}

.iconButton:active {
    background-color: #606060;
}

button::-moz-focus-inner {
    border: 0;
}
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<img src="http://www.pic4ever.com/images/2mpe5id.gif">
            <button class="btn btn-<?php echo $settings["button_background"]; ?>" type="submit"><?php echo $settings["submit_button_text"]; ?></button>