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Re:Recreating the button by aston on Thursday February 05, 2009 @04:06AM (#467432)
For those interested in the final gradient technique, it looks like they're just using a div with a background color of #f9f9f9 and a bottom border of #eee, then sticking it (absolutely positioned) at the top of the box that also contains the text div for the button.

Not sure why he was trying use <b> rather than a <div> or why he stuck it on the bottom instead of hanging it from the top, but the latter approach intuitively seems like it would work cross-browser.

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Re:Recreating the button by ivey on Thursday February 05, 2009 @11:11AM (#468075)
He was using <b> instead of <div> because it was shorter.

That's a 4 byte savings on each button. If you had a lot of buttons on a page...that could end up saving hundreds of bytes.

I'm not sure how much that matters in the long run, but it's a great attitude to have. Bytes matter, microseconds count.

I started this comment purely tongue-in-cheek, but convinced myself of the argument before I finished writing it.

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