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title: "RSS button – look Ma, no graphics!"
date: 2004-01-08
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2004"
    url: "/tag/2004.md"
---

# RSS button – look Ma, no graphics!

I’ve been meaning to add the orange RSS button back to my menu for a while. However I’ve been reluctant to upset my finely-tuned but fragile CSS/Radio Userland code synchronisation, by throwing a [gauche](https://web.archive.org/web/20050210171752/http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gauche) graphic into the mix. But today I discovered a nice CSS method which solved the problem neatly – the sort of CSS you could take home to meet mother, very civilized and well-behaved. This was thanks to [Don Park](https://web.archive.org/web/20050210171752/http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/EntryViewPage.aspx?guid=9d14a1ce-cc61-419d-879c-72434ed9480d). Actually I used [Richard Soderberg’s](https://web.archive.org/web/20050210171752/http://www.crystalflame.net/) code fragment, but I found it in Don’s comments.

It’s brilliant, now I have the familiar (to [geeks](https://web.archive.org/web/20050210171752/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2004/01/08.html#a183) anyway) orange RSS button – but there is no graphic! It’s pure CSS baby.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001785.php))*