‘button input, type="button” Which to use?’

http://web.archive.org/web/20110721191046/http://particletree.com/features/rediscovering-the-button-element/

http://www.peterbe.com/plog/button-tag-in-IE

  • Here’s a page describing the differences (basically you can put html into a <button></button>)
  • And an other page describing why people avoid <button></button> (Hint: IE6)

Another IE problem when using <button />:

And while we’re talking about IE, it’s got a couple of bugs related to the width of buttons. It’ll mysteriously add extra padding when you’re trying to add styles, meaning you have to add a tiny hack to get things under control.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/469059/button-vs-input-type-button-which-to-use