Is there an HTML/CSS version of the StarCraft 2 Menu buttons?

Question

I am building a webapp and I want to modify one of the StarCraft menu buttons to add them to my webapp, (StarCraft is a Blizzard Entertainment Game). This is an example photo of one of the menu pages from the game from which I would love to recreate the OK button in HTML/CSS:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Dwr5Xa6wVRU/maxresdefault.jpg

Unfortunately, I cannot find a website that has code for such buttons. Is there a place where I can find HTML and CSS code that create the OK button from the above photo?

Thank you very much

Answer 1

I know it's three years late, but I've made the buttons in CSS and you can find them on my Github. Essentially it's a gradient 180-degree simple button with a bordered photo that I took from Blizzard's "Starcraft 2" website. I dug through their CSS for a long time to find it, but the buttons look awesome. Link here: https://github.com/brysonrhawkins/starcraftButtonCSS

Answer 2

Those buttons can be achieved with multiple gradient backgrounds and borders, drop shadows and box shadows.

Here's an example:

http://www.studiochris.us/2009/css3-metallic-and-glossy-buttons-without-images-hello-future/

The tutorials and examples for Metallic buttons explain the process and give examples. However, none of them are as heavily shadowed, highlighted and saturated as your Starcraft examples. You will have to increase the effects, or just draw the buttons in a graphics program like Illustrator.

The emphasis is on subtlety in web design these days. You'll have to push the css rules to get it as loud as video game interface.