# Buttons vs Multistate Buttons flexibility

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/buttons-vs-multistate-buttons-flexibility/107878>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [June 27, 2025, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/buttons-vs-multistate-buttons-flexibility/107878 "2025-06-27T11:54:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![annikaciul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@annikaciul](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/annikaciul)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/buttons-vs-multistate-buttons-flexibility/107878/1 "2025-06-27T11:54:38Z")

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I'm creating a docked menu for my sessions, and am running into some issues with the available styling options for "button" and "multistate button."

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With the "button" options, I am unable to find a way to have a "selected" formatting/style option.  
With the "multistate button," I have been unable to add icons.

Does anyone know of a way to get both the icons and selected/unselected formatting on one of these component types, or a component that I may have missed?

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 11:56am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/buttons-vs-multistate-buttons-flexibility/107878/2 "2025-06-27T11:56:26Z")

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Using a button you can just replace the style class with your selected style class to make it look selected