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user324107
user324107

Reputation: 120

where to place cancel button on form

Does anyone know the correct place of the cancel button in a form? Does it have to be on the left of the submit button or on the right?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 990

Answers (3)

Colin Pickard
Colin Pickard

Reputation: 46673

Jakob Nielsen is widely considered an expert on usability and user interface design. He gives his opinion in this article: "OK–Cancel or Cancel–OK?".

The summary of his answer is: It's actually not an important UI issue, but if you are designing for Windows, put OK first; on Mac, put OK last; on the web, put OK first unless the majority of your users are not using Windows (but see also this article on Reset and Cancel Buttons for the web).

Upvotes: 0

codingbadger
codingbadger

Reputation: 44032

This article by Jeff may be of interest http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/03/the-opposite-of-fitts-law.html

It's not specific to the Cancel button but still a good read.

Upvotes: 1

k_b
k_b

Reputation: 2490

Most people read left to right, so it's normal to have OK on the left. At least, this is the Windows convention. OS X does it the other way around, I think.

Upvotes: 0

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