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<time>2022 Feb 19</time>
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<p><p>Checkboxes are hard to style. But when you're making a website, they may look ugly.</p><input type="checkbox" style="appearance:checkbox"><p>As you can see here, this bland checkbox does not fit into my clearly great website(/s). But really, it does not fit in at all.</p><p>The first step toward styling it how we want it is to give it an appearence of none, and a width and height that are what you want.</p><div class="code-container"><div class="code">input[type="checkbox"] {<div style="margin-left:1em">appearance: none;<br>width: 15px;<br>height: 15px;</div>}</div><div class="preview"><input type="checkbox" style="appearance:none;width:15px;height:15px"></div></div><p>Now we can do whatever we want to it. Also, remeber to add a checked pseudo</p><div class="code-container"><div class="code">input[type="checkbox"] {<div style="margin-left:1em">appearance: none;<br>width: 15px;<br>height: 15px;<br>background: #555;<br>border: 1px #252525 solid;<br>border-radius: 2px;</div>}<br><br>input[type="checkbox"]:checked {<div style="margin-left:1em">background: #ce5aff;</div>}</div><div class="preview"><style>input[type="checkbox"].examplecheckbox3_:checked {background: #ce5aff;}input[type="checkbox"].examplecheckbox3_ {background: #555;}</style><input type="checkbox" class="examplecheckbox3_" style="appearance:none;width:15px;height:15px;border-radius:2px;border:1px #252525 solid"></div></div></p>
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