--- title: Buttons vs. Links | daily.dev description: There are thousands of articles out there about buttons and links on the web; the differences and how to use them properly. Any devition from from those and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/buttons-vs-links-mmwthhpm1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Buttons vs. Links | daily.dev og:description: There are thousands of articles out there about buttons and links on the web; the differences and how to use them properly. Any devition from from those and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/buttons-vs-links-mmwthhpm1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MMwthhpM1.png og:image:alt: Buttons vs. Links og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Buttons vs. Links **[CSS-Tricks](https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks)** · 2 min read · 12 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary There are thousands of articles out there about buttons and links on the web; the differences and how to use them properly. Any devition from from those and you better smurfing know what you are doing. Reliability and trust in user interfaces is important to allow users to navigate content and application with ease. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@amnahk** · 0 upvotes > Hey, I would like to know what will be better approach if we have a image and click on it should fire some event. 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