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- What should cancel button do?
- Should cancel be a button or a link?
- What color should a cancel button be?
What should cancel button do?
What does the Cancel button do exactly? It dismisses the user's current screen and brings them back to their previous one. This dismissive button is a safeguard to prevent unwanted changes to the system.
Should cancel be a button or a link?
To summarize
The cancel option is similar to aborting an action, and therefore similar to navigating back to the previous state of the UI. Navigation is represented in web UI as hyperlinks, and thus the cancel option should be a hyperlink.
What color should a cancel button be?
The Cancel button should have a neutral color to signify the neutral, non-committal button. When users see that the Cancel button has no color, they'll recognize it as the fallback to safety easier. It's critical for users who need to escape a confirmation screen to notice this.
