diff --git a/src/components/button/button.html b/src/components/button/button.html
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+<span class="md-button-wrapper"><ng-content></ng-content></span>
diff --git a/src/components/button/button.scss b/src/components/button/button.scss
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diff --git a/src/components/button/button.spec.ts b/src/components/button/button.spec.ts
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+import {
+  it,
+  iit,
+  describe,
+  ddescribe,
+  expect,
+  inject,
+  injectAsync,
+  TestComponentBuilder,
+  beforeEachProviders,
+  beforeEach,
+} from 'angular2/testing';
+import {provide, Component} from 'angular2/core';
+import {MdButton} from './button';
+
+
+describe('MdButton', () => {
+  let builder: TestComponentBuilder;
+
+  beforeEach(inject([TestComponentBuilder], (tcb: TestComponentBuilder) => { builder = tcb; }));
+
+  it('should ...', () => {
+    return builder.createAsync(MdButton).then((fixture) => {
+      fixture.detectChanges();
+    });
+  });
+
+
+
+
+});
+
+
+
+/** Test component that contains an MdButton. */
+@Component({
+  selector: 'test-app',
+  directives: [MdButton],
+  template:
+      `<button md-button type="button" (click)="increment()" [disabled]="isDisabled">Go</button>`,
+})
+class TestApp {
+  clickCount: number = 0;
+  isDisabled: boolean = false;
+
+  increment() {
+    this.clickCount++;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/components/button/button.ts b/src/components/button/button.ts
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+import {Component, View, ViewEncapsulation, OnChanges, SimpleChange} from 'angular2/core';
+
+
+// TODO(jelbourn): Ink ripples.
+// TODO(jelbourn): Make the `isMouseDown` stuff done with one global listener.
+
+@Component({
+  selector: '[md-button]:not(a), [md-raised-button]:not(a), [md-fab]:not(a)',
+  host: {
+    '(mousedown)': 'onMousedown()',
+    '(focus)': 'onFocus()',
+    '(blur)': 'onBlur()',
+    '[class.md-button-focus]': 'isKeyboardFocused',
+  },
+})
+@View({
+  templateUrl: 'package:angular2_material/src/components/button/button.html',
+  styleUrls: ['package:angular2_material/src/components/button/button.css'],
+  encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None,
+})
+export class MdButton {
+  /** Whether a mousedown has occured on this element in the last 100ms. */
+  isMouseDown: boolean = false;
+
+  /** Whether the button has focus from the keyboard (not the mouse). Used for class binding. */
+  isKeyboardFocused: boolean = false;
+
+  onMousedown() {
+    // We only *show* the focus style when focus has come to the button via the keyboard.
+    // The Material Design spec is silent on this topic, and without doing this, the
+    // button continues to look :active after clicking.
+    // @see http://marcysutton.com/button-focus-hell/
+    this.isMouseDown = true;
+    setTimeout(() => {this.isMouseDown = false}, 100);
+  }
+
+  onFocus() {
+    this.isKeyboardFocused = !this.isMouseDown;
+  }
+
+  onBlur() {
+    this.isKeyboardFocused = false;
+  }
+}
+
+
+@Component({
+  selector: 'a[md-button], a[md-raised-button], a[md-fab]',
+  inputs: ['disabled'],
+  host: {
+    '(click)': 'onClick($event)',
+    '(mousedown)': 'onMousedown()',
+    '(focus)': 'onFocus()',
+    '(blur)': 'onBlur()',
+    '[tabIndex]': 'tabIndex',
+    '[class.md-button-focus]': 'isKeyboardFocused',
+    '[attr.aria-disabled]': 'isAriaDisabled',
+  },
+})
+@View({
+  templateUrl: 'package:angular2_material/src/components/button/button.html',
+  encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None
+})
+export class MdAnchor extends MdButton implements OnChanges {
+  tabIndex: number;
+  disabled_: boolean;
+
+  get disabled(): boolean {
+    return this.disabled_;
+  }
+
+  set disabled(value) {
+    // The presence of *any* disabled value makes the component disabled, *except* for false.
+    this.disabled_ = value != null && this.disabled !== false;
+  }
+
+  onClick(event: Event) {
+    // A disabled anchor shouldn't navigate anywhere.
+    if (this.disabled) {
+      event.preventDefault();
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** Invoked when a change is detected. */
+  ngOnChanges(changes: {[propName: string]: SimpleChange}) {
+    // A disabled anchor should not be in the tab flow.
+    this.tabIndex = this.disabled ? -1 : 0;
+  }
+
+  /** Gets the aria-disabled value for the component, which must be a string for Dart. */
+  get isAriaDisabled(): string {
+    return this.disabled ? 'true' : 'false';
+  }
+}
+