<a href="1.html"><input type="text" class="button_active" value="1"></a>
<a href="2.html"><input type="text" class="button" value="2"></a>
<a href="3.html"><input type="text" class="button" value="3"></a>
Try that. Unless you truly need to stick with the type as submit, then what I provided should work. If you are going to stick with submit, then everything mentioned above is correct, it makes no sense.