Hi Jeremy,
This behavior is expected, because the CSS bindings work for regular HTML elements only. In this case however, the button has a data-role="button" attribute, which means it is treated as a widget. As a workaround you can remove the data-role attribute and manually add the "k-button" class to get the same appearance (see example
here).
Regards,
Alexander Popov
Telerik
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