How to Grab Someone’s Button and Not Get Arrested

All right, Scarlett, you say (after reading How to Make a Blog Button and Remain Sane).  I’ve got my Xanax and Pepto in hand and I’m ready to do some code-kicking.  How do I grab someone’s button and not get into all sorts of trouble? 

Stop fretting. Take your attorney’s number off speed-dial.

It’s easy…and legal to grab a blog button.   Swapping buttons, amongst bloggers, is actually a sign of respect and support.   Here’s how you do it. Most bloggers put their buttons (and code) on their Home page, in one of the sidebars.   Look for something like this:

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Just copy the code from the scroll box, paste it into an HTML/JavaScript Gadget (in RTF mode), or paste it into a Post (in HTML, not Compose mode) and there you go.  One blog button, and no time served for misbehavior. 

If you’d like to have a column of buttons in your sidebar, you can add more buttons to your gadget as you go.  Just open your gadget, make sure the setting is on Rich Text Format, and add the code to as many buttons as you’d like, beneath the original code.  Check out the example below.

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