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title: Customize an HTML Checkbox
date: 2022 Feb 19
updated: 2024 Feb 1
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TL;DR: appearance: none;.
Checkboxes are hard to style. But when you're making a website, they may look ugly.
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.
The first step toward styling it how we want it is to give it an appearance of none, and a width and height that are what you want.
input[type="checkbox"] {
appearance: none;
width: 15px;
height: 15px;
background-color: grey;
}
Now we can do whatever we want to it. You're also able to add a :checked sudo to change certain elements(like the background-color) depending on if the checkbox is checked or not.
input[type="checkbox"] {
appearance: none;
width: 15px;
height: 15px;
background: #555;
border: 1px #252525 solid;
border-radius: 2px;
}
input[type="checkbox"]:checked {
background: #ce5aff;
}
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---
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title: Customize an HTML Checkbox
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date: 2022 Feb 19
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updated: 2024 Feb 1
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---
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TL;DR: `appearance: none;`.
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Checkboxes are hard to style. But when you're making a website, they may look ugly.
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<input type="checkbox" style="appearance: checkbox;" />
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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.
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The first step toward styling it how we want it is to give it an appearance of none, and a width and height that are what you want.
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```css
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input[type="checkbox"] {
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appearance: none;
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width: 15px;
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height: 15px;
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background-color: grey;
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}
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```
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<iframe src="/blog-files/checkbox-custom-styles-ex1.html" style="background: #fff; border: none"></iframe>
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Now we can do whatever we want to it. You're also able to add a `:checked` sudo to change certain elements(like the `background-color`) depending on if the checkbox is checked or not.
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```css
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input[type="checkbox"] {
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appearance: none;
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width: 15px;
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height: 15px;
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background: #555;
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border: 1px #252525 solid;
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border-radius: 2px;
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}
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input[type="checkbox"]:checked {
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background: #ce5aff;
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}
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```
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<iframe src="/blog-files/checkbox-custom-styles-ex2.html" style="background: #fff; border: none"></iframe>
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