How to create a HTML Cancel button that redirects to a URL

There is no button type="cancel" in html. You can try like this

<a href="http://www.url.com/yourpage.php">Cancel</a>

You can make it look like a button by using CSS style properties.

There are a few problems here.

First of all, there is no such thing as <button type="cancel">, so it is treated as just a <button>. This means that your form will be submitted, instead of the button taking you elsewhere.

Second, javascript: is only needed in href or action attributes, where a URL is expected, to designate JavaScript code. Inside onclick, where JavaScript is already expected, it merely acts as a label and serves no real purpose.

Finally, it's just generally better design to have a cancel link rather than a cancel button. So you can just do this:

<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/">Cancel</a>

With CSS you can even make it look the same as a button, but with this HTML there is absolutely no confusion as to what it is supposed to do.

cancel is not a valid value for a type attribute, so the button is probably defaulting to submit and continuing to submit the form. You probably mean type="button".

(The javascript: should be removed though, while it doesn't do any harm, it is an entirely useless label)

You don't have any button-like functionality though, so would be better off with:

<a href="http://stackoverflow.com"> Cancel </a>

… possibly with some CSS to make it look like a button.