Buttons

Use TailwindCSS’s custom button styles for actions in forms, dialogs, and more with support for multiple sizes, states, and more.

Examples

TailwindCSS includes several predefined button styles, each serving its own semantic purpose, with a few extras thrown in for more control.

Button soft

Button tags

The .btn classes are designed to be used with the button element. However, you can also use these classes on a or input elements (though some browsers may apply a slightly different rendering).

When using button classes on a elements that are used to trigger in-page functionality (like collapsing content), rather than linking to new pages or sections within the current page, these links should be given a role="button" to appropriately convey their purpose to assistive technologies such as screen readers.

Link

Outline buttons

In need of a button, but not the hefty background colors they bring? Replace the default modifier classes with the .btn-outline-* ones to remove all background images and colors on any button.

Button icons and round

In need of a button, but not the hefty background colors they bring? Replace the default modifier classes with the .btn-outline-* ones to remove all background images and colors on any button.

Primary Dark

Button icon hover scale

Button

Button sizes

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Disabled state

Make buttons look inactive by adding the disabled boolean attribute to any button element. Disabled buttons have pointer-events: none applied to, preventing hover and active states from triggering

Disabled buttons using the <a> element behave a bit different:

<a> s don't support the disabled attribute, so you must add the .disabled class to make it visually appear disabled.
Some future-friendly styles are included to disable all pointer-events on anchor buttons.
Disabled buttons should include the aria-disabled="true" attribute to indicate the state of the element to assistive technologies.

Primary link Link

Block buttons

Create responsive stacks of full-width, “block buttons” like those in TailwindCSS 4 with a mix of our display and gap utilities. By using utilities instead of button specific classes, we have much greater control over spacing, alignment, and responsive behaviors.

Here we create a responsive variation, starting with vertically stacked buttons until the md breakpoint, where .d-md-block replaces the .d-grid class, thus nullifying the gap-2 utility. Resize your browser to see them change.

Additional utilities can be used to adjust the alignment of buttons when horizontal. Here we’ve taken our previous responsive example and added some flex utilities and a margin utility on the button to right align the buttons when they’re no longer stacked.