I am trying to change the default \'box image\' of the checkbox with CSS, but it is not working. Is there any way around this?
You can use pure css, just add a label to the checkbox like this:
.check_box {
display:none;
}
.check_box + label{
background:url('images/check-box.png') no-repeat;
height: 16px;
width: 16px;
display:inline-block;
padding: 0 0 0 0px;
}
.check_box:checked + label{
background:url('images/check-box-checked.png') no-repeat;
height: 16px;
width: 16px;
display:inline-block;
padding: 0 0 0 0px;
}
Example HTML:
.check_box {
display:none;
}
.check_box + label{
background:url('images/check-box.png') no-repeat;
height: 16px;
width: 16px;
display:inline-block;
padding: 0 0 0 0px;
}
.check_box:checked + label{
background:url('images/check-box-checked.png') no-repeat;
height: 16px;
width: 16px;
display:inline-block;
padding: 0 0 0 0px;
}
<input type="checkbox" class="check_box" id="checkbox1">
<label for="checkbox1">
Try:
<input type="checkbox" class="input_class_checkbox">
jQuery
$('.input_class_checkbox').each(function(){
$(this).hide().after('<div class="class_checkbox" />');
});
$('.class_checkbox').on('click',function(){
$(this).toggleClass('checked').prev().prop('checked',$(this).is('.checked'))
});
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/cn6kn/
$('.input_class_checkbox').each(function(){
$(this).hide().after('<div class="class_checkbox" />');
});
$('.class_checkbox').on('click',function(){
$(this).toggleClass('checked').prev().prop('checked',$(this).is('.checked'))
});
.class_checkbox {
width: 20px;
height: 20px;
background-color: red;
}
.class_checkbox.checked {
background-color: green;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="checkbox" class="input_class_checkbox">
I created a Fiddle using pure CSS. The most voted answer doesn't handle click events and won't work well, because the checkbox value won't change.
This is my example:
http://jsfiddle.net/kEHGN/1/
Basically, we need the following html:
<div class="checkbox_wrapper">
<input type="checkbox" />
<label></label>
</div>
And the following CSS:
.checkbox_wrapper{
position: relative;
height: 16px;
width: 17px;
}
input[type="checkbox"] {
opacity:0;
height: 16px;
width: 17px;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
z-index: 2;
}
input[type="checkbox"] + label{
background:url('../images/unchecked.png') no-repeat;
height: 16px;
width: 17px;
display:inline-block;
padding: 0 0 0 0px;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
z-index: 1;
}
input[type="checkbox"]:checked + label{
background:url('../images/checked.png') no-repeat;
height: 16px;
width: 17px;
display:inline-block;
padding: 0 0 0 0px;
}
Just check the routes of the images, and the widths and heights should be equal to the width and height of the images. On the fiddler I am using base64 encoded images.
I hope it can be useful.
I found another way, without using adjacent labels or surrounding divs.
My usecase was that I had a markdown parser that generates those nifty TODO lists and I wanted to style them. Changing the generated HTML wasn't a option, so I came up with this solution:
given a checkbox like this:
<input type="checkbox" id="cb">
You can style it with visibility: hidden
on checkbox and visibility: visible
on ::after, like this:
#cb {
visibility: hidden;
}
input#cb::after {
visibility: visible;
content: "F";
color: red;
background: green;
padding: 8px;
}
input#cb:checked::after {
content: " T ";
color: green;
background: red;
}
<!doctype html>
<html>
<body>
<input type="checkbox" id="cb">
</body>
</html>
EDIT:
@connexo in a comment pointed out that input elements cannot have content. It could be easly done using label element, for example like so (please someone correct me if this is wrong, I don't have non-webkit browser handy to test it).
#cb-span * {
visibility: hidden;
}
input#cb + label::after {
visibility: visible;
content: "F";
color: red;
background: green;
padding: 8px;
}
input#cb:checked + label::after {
content: " T ";
color: green;
background: red;
}
<!doctype html>
<html>
<body>
<span id="cb-span">
<input type="checkbox" id="cb">
<label for="cb"></label>
</span>
</body>
</html>
The checkbox works just like normal one and you can style it anyway you like.
Maybe it'll help someody (and I can bookmark it, because I haven't found anything like this on the web)
Maybe will be useful my sample with LESS.
<div class="custom-checkbox">
<input component="input" type="checkbox"/>
<label>Here is caption right to checkbox</label>
</div>
@imgsize: 25px;
.custom-checkbox{
position: relative;
> input[type="checkbox"] {
display:none;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
+ label{
background:url('../img/unchecked.png') no-repeat 0 0;
background-size:@imgsize;
height: @imgsize;
padding: 4px 0 5px 35px;
display: inline-block;
-webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s;
-moz-transition-duration: 0.3s;
transition-duration: 0.3s;
}
}
> input[type="checkbox"]:checked + label{
background:url('../img/checked.png') no-repeat;
background-size:@imgsize @imgsize;
}
}