    /* Start custom button CSS here
    ---------------------------------------- */
    .btn {
      display:inline-block;
      background:none;
      margin:0;
      padding:3px 0;
      border-width:0;
      overflow:visible;
      font:100%/1.2 Arial,Sans-serif;
      text-decoration:none;
      color:#333;
      }
    * html button.btn {
      padding-bottom:1px;
      }
    /* Immediately below is a temporary hack to serve the
       following margin values only to Gecko browsers
       Gecko browsers add an extra 3px of left/right
       padding to button elements which can't be overriden.
       Thus, we use -3px of left/right margin to overcome this. */
    html:not([lang*=""]) button.btn {
      margin:0 -3px;
      }
    .btn span {
      background:#ddd url(../images/global/bg-button.gif) repeat-x 0 0;
      margin:0;
      padding:3px 0;
      border-left:1px solid #bbb;
      border-right:1px solid #aaa;
      }
    * html .btn span {
      padding-top:0;
      }
    .btn span span {
      position:relative;
      padding:3px .4em;
      border-width:0;
      border-top:1px solid #bbb;
      border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;
      }

    /* pill classes only needed if using pill style buttons ( LEFT | CENTER | RIGHT ) */
    button.pill-l span {
      border-right-width:0;
      }
    button.pill-l span span {
      border-right:1px solid #bbb;
      }
    button.pill-c span {
      border-right-style:none;
      border-left-color:#fff;
      }
    button.pill-c span span {
      border-right:1px solid #bbb;
      }
    button.pill-r span {
      border-left-color:#fff;
      }

    /* only needed if implementing separate hover/focus/active state for buttons */
    .btn:hover span, .btn:hover span span, .btn:focus span, .btn:focus span span {
          cursor:pointer; /* important for any clickable/pressable element */
          border-color:#9cf !important;
          color:#000;
          background:#ddd url(../images/global/bg-button.gif) repeat-x 0 -400px;
      }
    .btn:active span {
      background-position:0 -400px;
      outline:none;
      }
    .btn:focus, .btn:active {
      outline:none; /* doesn't seem to be respected for <button>, only <a> */
      }

    /* use if one button should be the 'primary' button */
    .primary {
      font-weight:bold;
      color:#000;
      }
