Target ALL BUTTONS with CSS?

Is it just me, or do you want a way to target ALL  buttons with CSS across a site? Is there a reason this isn't possible with CSS? Maybe I'm just new?... What are your thoughts? 😅

1 hour ago, NadineCharleson said:

Is it just me, or do you want a way to target ALL  buttons with CSS across a site? Is there a reason this isn't possible with CSS? Maybe I'm just new?... What are your thoughts? 😅

Button on squarespace may have many types: button tag, a tag. So if you can share your site with protected password so we can take a look at yours 'buttons'

Thanks @bangank36, but I'm just looking for a general "all buttons" option. I'd like that ability for creating templates so if users add a block I don't use, the design isn't messed up. I can manually do the CSS for the ones I use etc, but I'd love an option to just target all buttons. 

Or even "all primary" buttons etc.

On 10/12/2022 at 9:06 PM, bangank36 said:

Button on squarespace may have many types: button tag, a tag. So if you can share your site with protected password so we can take a look at yours 'buttons'

6 hours ago, NadineCharleson said:

Thanks @bangank36, but I'm just looking for a general "all buttons" option. I'd like that ability for creating templates so if users add a block I don't use, the design isn't messed up. I can manually do the CSS for the ones I use etc, but I'd love an option to just target all buttons. 

Or even "all primary" buttons etc.

 

With Css you can select button with the following class: sqs-block-button-element

In addition, Squarespace allow you to set some style in general:

Yeah, I get that. But I'm needing it for doing custom animations or cool CSS things with them. I can't just target *all buttons*. Seems silly that it's not an option, but c'est la vie!

PS. For example, newsletter blocks, header blocks, form blocks, collection list buttons... you get the idea. I'd love a master reference in CSS for "all buttons"...

On 10/13/2022 at 12:48 AM, NadineCharleson said:

Is it just me, or do you want a way to target ALL buttons with CSS across a site?

There isn't one single selector that you can use to target all buttons because Squarespace is constantly evolving and different elements were built at different times. You can apply your CSS to several buttons, but you'll need to identify the right selectors for each button and then combine them in one CSS statement (usually by separating them with commas). 

Areas of the platform that were built or updated very recently are generally easier to work with because some standardisation has kicked in. For example, new buttons generally have Primary, Secondary and Tertiary classes like sqs-button-element--primary, sqs-button-element--secondary and so on, and this can be very helpful. However, there are areas of the platform that are much older - dating back 10 years in some cases - these use many different HTML elements and classes. To complicate things further, older classes are retained for backward compatibility (to prevent custom code breaking) so you may find a single button has many different classes like:

• button-block
• sqs-block-button
• sqs-block-button-element
• sqs-block-button-element--medium
• sqs-button-element--secondary
• ..and so on.

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Ah... Thanks @paul2009. That makes more sense. I never thought about backward compatibility etc.