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Chapter: Bootstrap and frontend CSS frameworks
Lecture: Buttons and forms
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Another really visible aspect of Bootstrap
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is buttons and related to that, forms.
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So let's look at that.
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Here's wistia.com, the signup form
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where you create your account on Wistia.
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Now Wistia's like a video hosting company
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I don't use them really for anything
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but they're a pretty cool company
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and this is a decent login page.
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It's kind of nicely styled and somewhat unique.
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And notice, there's a couple of buttons here.
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We have a button down at the bottom
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which is going to submit this form
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and in html, there's actually angle bracket button.
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Probably has type equals submit, something like that.
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So this is actually the button
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that html itself knows will submit the form.
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Up here, we also have a button.
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But that's not actually a button, it's just a hyperlink.
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These could look exactly the same
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or they could look slightly different
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like they have them here.
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But the idea is, we have this concept of a button.
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I click on this big thing and it does button-like stuff.
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It does some action.
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Whether or not that's buttons or links
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in html, it doesn't really matter.
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My rule of thumb is: it's a button if it submits a form
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otherwise it's a link; pretty much is the way it goes.
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But the visual aspect and the conceptual aspect of button
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and whether or not it's a button or hyperlink
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those are separate
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and Bootstrap lets you easily style them in that way.
