Custom Cancel button, Go Back to the web-page you came from ...

Nice to have against the Close or Save button is a beautifull Cancel button. 
A request of a customer this week was to have a link on there intranet 
to a sharepoint custom new page, but without the Sharepoint header and menu. 

So people could add items in a list, but nothing else more. 

On the page the Sharepoint Close/Cancel button returns automatically back to 
the Sharepoint List. But what the customer wanted was that the requester 
returned back to the page where they came from or, 
if the page was openend in a new window, to close the window.

To do this, replace the Sharepoint Close/Cancel button with our own custum buttom.
add a little script in a content Editor webpart to execute the return function (goback).

<input type="button" value="Cancel" name="CancelButton" class="ms-ButtonHeightWidth" onclick="goback();" />

// in content editor webpart:
function goback() {
    // Jumps back
            //history.back();
            if (history.length >0)
            {
                        history.back();
            }
            else
            {
                        window.close();
            }
}

 

Give Custom Save button with Sharepoint Layout and Redirection

People are adding custom controls to there sharepoint pages, but the buttons doesn't have 
the same look and feel as the one Sharepoints generates itselfs. 
But I wouldn't be a developer to give you a solution with gives you your buttons the same
look and feel as the Sharepoint buttons. 

To get this, you must not add a HTML Button element, but a Input element of the type button.
For giving it the same look and feel of Sharepoint Buttons you have to 
add a Sharepoint CSS class named "ms-ButtonHeightWidth"

In the example below you have a Button that you can use instead of the generated Save button 
and that redirects your page after saving your content to an other location 
than the standard view of your list in Sharepoint.
For the redirection you have to add some code that generates an event after a succesfull SaveAction.
 

<input type="button" value="Save" name="SaveButton" class="ms-ButtonHeightWidth" onclick="if (!PreSaveAction()) return false;{ddwrt:GenFireServerEvent('__commit;__redirect={<<SITE URL TO REDIRECT>>};')}" />