Twitter Bootstrap Button Group Control Radio Buttons/Checkboxes

Question

I am trying to use the Twitter Bootstrap button group as an actual set of form input controls. By default, these button groups can be made to function like a radio button or che

Answer 1

With Bootstrap 3.2 put the hidden input in the middle of your button group container. Instead of the text content we take the value of th data-value field.

<div id="test" class="btn-group checkit" data-toggle="buttons-radio">
    <button type="button" data-value="1" class="btn btn-default active">Yes</button>
    <input type='hidden' name="testfield" value='1'>
    <button type="button" data-value="0" class="btn btn-default ">No</button>
</div>

Now insert a little javascript snippet into the onload part of your template.

$('.checkit .btn').click(function() {
    $(this).parent().find('input').val($(this).data("value"));
});

So you only need to add .checkit to your button group and insert a hidden input field.

With bootstrap 3.2 you can use button groups directly with radio- or checkbox-inputs

<div class="btn-group" data-toggle="buttons">
    <label class="btn btn-default">
        <input type="radio" name="options" id="option1" value="1" /> Yes
    </label>
    <label class="btn btn-default">
        <input type="radio" name="options" id="option2" value="0" /> No
    </label>
    <label class="btn btn-default">
        <input type="radio" name="options" id="option3" value="42" /> Whatever
    </label>
</div>

See here: http://jsfiddle.net/DHoeschen/gmxr45hh/1/

Answer 2

CSS-only solution:

HTML:

<div class="btn-group">
    <label class="btn btn-primary"><input type="checkbox"><span>Button 1</span></label>
    <label class="btn btn-primary"><input type="checkbox"><span>Button 2</span></label>
</div>

SCSS/LESS:

 label.btn {
    margin-bottom: 0;
    padding: 0;
    overflow: hidden;

    span {
      display: block;
      padding: 10px 15px;
    }

    input[type=checkbox] {
      display: none;
    }

    input:checked + span {
      display: block;
      color: #fff;
      background-color: #285e8e;
    }
  }

JSfiddle here

Answer 3

Bootstrap 3 has a "native" solution...

There now is a "true" Bootstrap solution for this problem, which appears to work fine also on older browsers. Here's what it looks like:

// get selection
$('.colors input[type=radio]').on('change', function() {
    console.log(this.value);
});

<!-- Bootstrap CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">

<div class="btn-group colors" data-toggle="buttons">
  <label class="btn btn-primary active">
    <input type="radio" name="options" value="red" autocomplete="off" checked> Red
  </label>
  <label class="btn btn-primary">
    <input type="radio" name="options" value="orange" autocomplete="off"> Orange
  </label>
  <label class="btn btn-primary">
    <input type="radio" name="options" value="yellow" autocomplete="off"> Yellow
  </label>
</div>

<!-- jQuery and Bootstrap JS -->
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.0.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>

See the relevant Bootstrap documentation for more information.

Bootstrap 4

Bootstrap 4 supports component the same way as Bootstrap 3, but Bootstrap 4 does not support IE9. You might want to check out the Bootstrap IE8 project.

Answer 4

Bootstrap 2

Try this fiddle

HTML:

<div class="btn-group" data-toggle="buttons-radio">
    <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Left</button>
    <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Middle</button>
    <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Right</button>
</div>
<input type="hidden" id="buttonvalue"/>

Script:

$(".btn-group button").click(function () {
    $("#buttonvalue").val($(this).text());
});

then get buttonvalue server side

Answer 5

You can use hidden form elements and javascript to use the button state to trigger the form element states.