Why is the <button> Tag not used?

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Hello everyone,

I was just working through the course “Learn Accessebility by Building a Quiz” when I was supposed to create a Submit- button. Without thinking, I used the tag as that felt reasonable. But I couldn’t remember how to add the target page, so I googled it and realised, that in the course the tag is not used but the tag is.

A quick search regarding the differences showed, that the tag is “new” and was introduced with HTML5 and that some older browsers like IE6 and IE7 have problems with the tag.
But HTML5 was released in 2014, so over 10 years ago. According to Statista, IE’s market share is at 0.39% . The last version was IE11 which was released in 2013.

To me it feels more intuitive to use the tag as it is named after what it does and one is not as likely to confuse it with a field in which a user can enter text compared to the tag . As far as I was able to figure out, it is also more flexible, as you could add an image to the button.

So, does anyone have an idea, why the tag is not used?

Thanks in advance and kind regards
Atlan

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Both are used throughout the curriculum.
If you are asked to create an input element the tests expect that tho. If the instructions do not specify, you can report that as a bug.

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Great, Thank you very much for the clarification.
So there isn’t anything bad about the tag, it is just that both methods are introdused, right?

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yes, both are introduced