Change button style in MVC5 view

Question

I use the following view code which I created in MVC5 and I want to change the button style to be like the forum buttons (e.g. ask question button in this stack forum,add button frame color etc),how should I do that? currently its just text that when you hoover it with the mouse you see line under it...

<p>
    @Html.ActionLink("Create New Item", "Create")
</p>

Answer 1

You just need css to style a button.

<p>
    @Html.ActionLink("Create New Item", "Create", 
        null, htmlAttributes: new { @class = "mybtn"})
</p>
<style type="text/css">
    a.mybtn {
        background: #777;
        color: #fff;
        display: inline-block;
        padding: 6px 12px 6px 12px;
        text-decoration: none;
    }
</style>