.buttonarea
{
    clear: both;
    padding: 1.5em 0 1em 0;
}

a.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;
}
a.btn span {
    background:#ddd url(/portals/_default/skins/templates/img/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;
}
a.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 {
    
}

/* only needed if implementing separate hover/focus/active state for buttons */
a.btn:hover span, a.btn:hover span span, a.btn:focus span, a.btn:focus span span {
    cursor:pointer; /* important for any clickable/pressable element */
    border-color:#9cf !important;
    color:#000;
}
.btn:active span {
    background-position:0 -400px;
    outline:none;
}
a.btn:focus, a.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;
}