 <p>I assume what you want to do is that when the button is clicked, it should open the same URL that was present in href. If this is the scenario, you can just add an onclick event handler to the button i.e onclick="navigate('<em>Your URL here</em>');". </p> <p>You can also set the onclick event to call a javascript function which in turn can open a modal/normal popup window for you</p>