# Is it possible to have an image based button with DYNAMIC te

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**Created:** [December 23, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-have-an-image-based-button-with-dynamic-te/80292 "2006-12-23T13:36:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-have-an-image-based-button-with-dynamic-te/80292/1 "2006-12-23T13:36:50Z")

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Hi,

I wanted to move to more web 2.0 style buttons (i.e. images created in  
photoshop) but I’m not sure how to keep the flexibility of the button  
text?  
Currently I have text in properties, for multiple languages (i.e. one  
file  
per language). This makes it easy in terms of changing language  
currently.  
Having to create specific image buttons manually for each set of text,  
for  
each language, each time I wanted to adjust the text, obviously isn’t  
sounding great.

Does anyone know the answer to any of these questions:

1. Are there any tricks re maintaining the flexibility of displaying  
text from this respect, but with the look and feel of web 2.0 type  
images?

2. Is it possible to have dynamic text displayed within an  
imagesomehow perhaps?

3. What about via slicing up a web 2.0 type of button style into  
top/button & corners so that it is possible to create what looks like  
a web 2.0 button using DIV techniques (like when one creates a  
rounded  
square to keep a variable length amount of text in), and then having  
the  
text appear within this?

4. Other ideas?

Thanks  
Greg

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**Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-have-an-image-based-button-with-dynamic-te/80292/2 "2006-12-23T15:47:01Z")

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> 1. Other Ideas?

[http://dojotoolkit.org/dojo/tests/widget/test\_Button.html](http://dojotoolkit.org/dojo/tests/widget/test_Button.html)

But I’m not so sure you want to drag another Javascript framework into  
it.

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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-have-an-image-based-button-with-dynamic-te/80292/3 "2006-12-23T22:17:49Z")

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tks - this seems to the HTML 4.0 “Button” as it’s basis. Do you know  
if:  
a) does Rails, Prototype or Scriptaculus support the same thing?  
b) any general browser compatibility issues re relying on HTML 4.0  
“Button”?  
c) is this the only way to allow dynamic text to be represented within  
an  
image for a browser?

Tks again

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**Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-have-an-image-based-button-with-dynamic-te/80292/4 "2006-12-24T01:42:27Z")

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tks Andrew,

I think I’m still more interested in discovering if (and how) to  
implement a  
dynamic text within a stylized button via HTML/CSS/Javascript if there  
is a  
standard way to do this.

If anyone has any pointers re this (i.e. HTML/CSS/javascript mechanism)  
I’d  
be very interested to hear details re the approach.

Greg

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**Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-it-possible-to-have-an-image-based-button-with-dynamic-te/80292/5 "2006-12-23T22:47:54Z")

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> Is it possible to have dynamic text displayed within an image  
> somehow perhaps?

Take a look at:

[http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2006/12/18/dynamic-graphics-with-](http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2006/12/18/dynamic-graphics-with-)  
rails-1-2

Regards,  
Andy S.