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1<!DOCTYPE html> 2<html lang="en"> 3 4<head> 5 6 7<meta charset="UTF-8" /> 8<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /> 9<title>Customize an HTML Checkbox - S0G</title> 10<link rel="stylesheet" href="/src/global.css" /> 11 12<link rel="stylesheet" href="/src/pygments-friendly.css" /> 13 14</head> 15 16<body> 17<header> 18<h2><a href="/">Steve0Greatness</a></h2> 19<nav> 20<a href="/blog">Blog</a> 21<a href="/link-tree.html">Link Tree</a> 22</nav> 23</header> 24 25<ol role="navigation" class="breadcrumbs" aria-roledescription="Site breadcrumb"> 26<li> 27<a href="/">Index</a> 28</li> 29 30<li > 31<a href="/blog"> 32Blog Index 33</a> 34</li> 35 36<li aria-current="location"> 37 38Customize an HTML Checkbox 39 40</li> 41 42</ol> 43<main> 44<article> 45<h2 id="blog-post-titled">Customize an HTML Checkbox</h2> 46<time>2022 Feb 19</time> 47<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> 48 49</article> 50</main> 51<footer role="group"> 52<div class="footer-link-list-holder"> 53<span aria-hidden="true" id="footer-label-social-accounts" class="footer-link-list-label">Social Accounts</span> 54<ol class="footer-link-list" aria-labelledby="footer-label-social-accounts"> 55<li><a href="https://mastodon.social/@S0G" rel="me">Mastodon</a></li> 56<li><a href="https://youtube.com/@s0g">YouTube</a></li> 57</ol> 58</div> 59</footer> 60</body> 61 62</html>