How to customize blogger navigation buttons

Change your Older post,Home,Newer post buttons with images...

Let us see how to add Background image to the text Older Posts and Newer Posts.
Go to EDIT HTML SUBTAB and then search this following code or similar.

#blog-pager-newer-link {
float: $startSide;
margin-$startSide: 13px;
} #blog-pager-older-link {
float: $endSide;
margin-$endSide: 13px;
}
#blog-pager {
text-align: center;
}

Now replace the whole code with

#blog-pager-newer-link {
background : url(http://i43.tinypic.com/11bro1s.jpg) no-repeat left 0%;
padding-left : 20px;
border : none;
float : left;
}
#blog-pager-older-link {
float : right;
background : url(http://i44.tinypic.com/2n6dirp.jpg) no-repeat right 0%;
padding-right : 20px;
border : none;
}
#blog-pager {
padding : 0 15px 0;
text-align : center;
}
.blog-pager a {
color : #cc0000;
}
.blog-pager a:hover {
color : #cc0000;
}

In that you can change the background images and then customize the color of the text. That’s it now save your template , you can find something like this :


 Replace with Images:

To Replace the “older posts” , ” Newer Posts” and “Home” text with background images , follow these simple steps.
replace the css code for blog post navigation widget with this code

#blog-pager-newer-link {
padding-left : 20px;
border : none;
float : left;
}
#blog-pager-older-link {
float : right;
padding-right : 20px;
border : none;
}
#blog-pager{
padding:50px 10px 10px 10px;
text-align:center;
}
.blog-pager a{
color:#A10000
} .blog-pager a:hover{
color:#15FFED
}

and then save your template. Now check ” Expand Widget Templates” option and now replace the

<b:includable id=’nextprev’>
<div class=’blog-pager’ id=’blog-pager’>
<b:if cond=’data:newerPageUrl’>
<span id=’blog-pager-newer-link’>
<a class=’blog-pager-newer-link’ expr:href=’data:newerPageUrl’ expr:id=’data:widget.instanceId + &quot;_blog-pager-newer-link&quot;’ expr:title=’data:newerPageTitle’><data:newerPageTitle/></a>
</span>
</b:if> <b:if cond=’data:olderPageUrl’>
<span id=’blog-pager-older-link’>
<a class=’blog-pager-older-link’ expr:href=’data:olderPageUrl’ expr:id=’data:widget.instanceId + &quot;_blog-pager-older-link&quot;’ expr:title=’data:olderPageTitle’><data:olderPageTitle/></a>
</span>
</b:if>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.homepageUrl != data:blog.url’>
<a class=’home-link’ expr:href=’data:blog.homepageUrl’><data:homeMsg/></a>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond=’data:newerPageUrl’>
<a class=’home-link’ expr:href=’data:blog.homepageUrl’><data:homeMsg/></a>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</div>
<div class=’clear’/>
</b:includable>

with this code

<b:includable id=’nextprev’>
<div class=’blog-pager’ id=’blog-pager’>
<b:if cond=’data:newerPageUrl’>
<span id=’blog-pager-newer-link’>
<a class=’blog-pager-newer-link’ expr:href=’data:newerPageUrl’ expr:id=’data:widget.instanceId + &quot;_blog-pager-newer-link&quot;’ expr:title=’data:newerPageTitle’><img alt=’techieblogger.com’ src=’http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i42/queenofdreamsz/NextIcon.gif’ title=’Newer Post’/></a>
</span>
</b:if> <b:if cond=’data:olderPageUrl’>
<span id=’blog-pager-older-link’>
<a class=’blog-pager-older-link’ expr:href=’data:olderPageUrl’ expr:id=’data:widget.instanceId + &quot;_blog-pager-older-link&quot;’ expr:title=’data:olderPageTitle’><img alt=’Techie Blogger’ src=’http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i42/queenofdreamsz/BackIcon.gif’ title=’Older Post’/></a>
</span>
</b:if>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.homepageUrl != data:blog.url’>
<a class=’home-link’ expr:href=’data:blog.homepageUrl’><img alt=’Techie Blogger’ src=’http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k47/bongmalove/icon/home.gif’ title=’Home Page’/></a>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond=’data:newerPageUrl’>
<a class=’home-link’ expr:href=’data:blog.homepageUrl’><img alt=’Techie Blogger’ src=’http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k47/bongmalove/icon/home.gif’ title=’Home Page’/></a>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</div>
<div class=’clear’/>
</b:includable>

You can change the images included with your own blog navigation images. After that save your template and check your blog. You can find a blog navigation links something like this :