Most buttons can't be used with a breadboard because the pins are too short. For example these nice button I bought for $0.12 each. But you need only some pin headers to fix this:
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/8760681556311600926.jpg)
First plug in the pin headers in a breadboard:
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/2561571556311618276.jpg)
Then clip the button on the pin headers. You might need to bend the pins of the button a bit so that it is a tight fit and the pins of the button are at the outer side of the pin headers on each side, so that it doesn't fall off when you solder it:
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/3107931556311703587.jpg)
Then solder it, done:
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/707821556315298367.jpg)
You can buy a professional PCB for it now in my Tindie shop as well:
https://www.tindie.com/products/frankbuss/breadboard-push-button/
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