A button is a small fastener which secures two pieces of fabric together.

Button or Buttons may also refer to:

Controls

  • Button (computing), a virtual control displayed on a computer screen that can control software
  • Push-button, a switch meant to control a machine or a process
  • Web button, or button graphic, a digital image used to represent a link to a specific web location

Arts and entertainment

  • The Button (comics), a comic book cross-over event
  • The Button (TV series)
  • Button (film), a 1982 Soviet animated film
  • Buttons (film), a 1927 American film
  • "Buttons" (The Pussycat Dolls song), from PCD
  • "Buttons" (Sia song), from Some People Have Real Problems
  • "Buttons", a song by Steve Lacy from Gemini Rights
  • Buttons (pantomime), a character in the Cinderella pantomime
  • Buttons, of Buttons and Mindy, a cartoon dog from the children's TV show Animaniacs

Sports and games

  • Button (curling), the center of the playing surface in the sport of curling
  • Button (poker), a marker indicating which player is currently the dealer
  • The Button (Reddit), a meta-game and social experiment

Places

  • Button Bay, Lake Champlain, Vermont, United States
  • Button Island (Massachusetts), United States
  • Button Islands, Nunavut, Canada
  • Button Township, Ford County, Illinois, United States
  • The Buttons, Argentine islands

Biology

  • Buttons (plant), several genera of plants in the family Asteraceae
  • Button mushroom, sometimes shortened to just "button"
  • The initial segment formed in the development of a rattlesnake's rattle

People and fictional characters

  • Button (surname), an English surname, including a list of people and fictional characters
  • Button Gwinnett (1735–1777), a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
  • Charlie Buttons (1944–2025), an American Jewish community representative
  • Red Buttons (1919–2006), stage name of American comedian and actor Aaron Chwatt
  • Buttons Briggs (1875–1911), American Major League Baseball pitcher nicknamed "Buttons"

Other uses

  • Button baronets, an extinct title (1622–1712) in the Baronetage of England
  • The Button (sculpture), on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Button railway station, Button, Manitoba, Canada
  • Button's Coffee House London, England
  • Cadbury Buttons, packets of button-shaped pieces of chocolate sold in the UK
  • Candy Buttons, small rounded flat pegs of candy that are attached to a strip of paper
  • Pin-back button, a clothing accessory worn as a badge

See also

  • Button, Button (disambiguation)
  • Buton, Indonesia