Blocks » Buttons Block
Use the Buttons block to prompt visitors to take action with a button-style link. Your button can link to other pages on your site or an external page. It’s great for calling attention to the most important thing you want your visitors to do.
Adding a Buttons Block
To add a Buttons block, click on the Block Inserter + icon. Once you add your first button, you can type what you’d like the button to say.
You can also type /buttons and hit enter in a new Paragraph block to add one quickly.
For more, visit our detailed instructions on adding blocks.
Block Toolbar
Every block has a toolbar of block-specific controls that lets you manipulate the block.
There are two levels to this block:
- The overall Buttons block contains your button(s). This is known as the parent block.
- The individual Button blocks within the parent Buttons block.
The parent Buttons block offer the following options in its toolbar:
- Parent block selector
- Drag block handle to change the block position
- Move up and down
- Change alignment between full and wide width
- Change content justification (more on this below)
Individual Button blocks offers the following options in its toolbar:
- Parent Buttons block selector
- Drag block handle
- Move left and right
- Link
- Styles (more on this below)
- Bold, Italics, and more text formatting options
Linking a Button
To add a link to your button, click on the Link icon that shows in the toolbar. The icon looks like an actual link you would find in a metal chain. You will be able to paste your link or search the existing pages and posts of your site.
By default, links will open in the same tab unless you choose to set the link to open in a new tab.
Aligning Buttons
You can align the buttons to the left, right, or center. First, make sure you select the parent Buttons block like so:
Then, select the alignment option from the toolbar:
You can choose to align the buttons to the left, center, or right.
You can also choose Space between items to add equal space between multiple buttons in the block automatically.
Block Settings Panel
Every block has additional options in the editor sidebar, as well as the options found in the block toolbar. If you do not see the sidebar click the ‘gear’ icon next to the Publish button.
Styles
In the Styles options, you can set the button to be filled with a color (Fill) or have a solid border (Outline).
Typography
The Typography settings contain options to control the size of the text displayed on your button.
Border Radius
The border radius option allows you to give your buttons a more rounded appearance. Setting this to 0 means the button has sharp edges.
Color Settings
You can choose the text and background colors for your buttons.
Select colors that will make the button stand out, and make sure to find a nice contrast for readability purposes. Accessibility parameters are built into the new editor to warn you when the text may become illegible for persons with reading impairments.
Width settings
The width settings allow you to define the width of each button in percentage terms.
Horizontal and Vertical Buttons
When you first add multiple buttons to the parent Buttons block, they will be displayed horizontally. You can display the buttons vertically (i.e., stacked in a column) using the Transform to variation setting on the Buttons block.
Advanced
Link rel controls the button link’s rel attribute, for adding nofollow amongst other things.
The HTML anchor field can be used to create a page jump to your button.
Use Additional CSS class(es) to write custom CSS and style the block as you see fit. Learn more.
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