[html] How to change the size of the radio button using CSS?

Is there a way to control the size of the radio button in CSS ?

Here's one approach. By default the radio buttons were about twice as large as labels.
(See CSS and HTML code at end of answer)

Safari: 10.0.3

Chrome: 56.0.2924.87

Firefox: 50.1.0

Internet Explorer: 9 (Fuzziness not IE's fault, hosted test on netrenderer.com)

CSS:

.sortOptions > label {
    font-size:          8px;
}

.sortOptions > input[type=radio] {
    width:              10px;
    height:             10px;
}

HTML:

<div class="rightColumn">Answers
    <span class="sortOptions">
        <input type="radio" name="answerSortList" value="credate"/>
        <label for="credate">Creation</label>

        <input type="radio" name="answerSortList" value="lastact"/>
        <label for="lastact">Activity</label>

        <input type="radio" name="answerSortList" value="score"/>
        <label for="score">Score</label>

        <input type="radio" name="answerSortList" value="upvotes"/>
        <label for="upvotes">Up votes</label>

        <input type="radio" name="answerSortList" value="downvotes"/>
        <label for="downvotes">Down Votes</label>

        <input type="radio" name="answerSortList" value="accepted"/>
        <label for="downvotes">Accepted</label>

    </span>
</div>                

This works fine for me in all browsers:

(inline style for simplicity...)

<label style="font-size:16px;">
    <input style="height:1em; width:1em;" type="radio">
    <span>Button One</span>
</label>

The size of both the radio button and text will change with the label's font-size.

try this code... it may be the ans what you exactly looking for

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  display: block;_x000D_
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  margin: 40px auto;_x000D_
  height: auto;_x000D_
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  padding: 20px;_x000D_
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h2 {_x000D_
 color: #AAAAAA;_x000D_
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 overflow: auto;_x000D_
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  float: left;_x000D_
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  height: 100px;_x000D_
 border-bottom: 1px solid #333;_x000D_
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ul li input[type=radio]{_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  visibility: hidden;_x000D_
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ul li label{_x000D_
  display: block;_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
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  font-size: 1.35em;_x000D_
  padding: 25px 25px 25px 80px;_x000D_
  margin: 10px auto;_x000D_
  height: 30px;_x000D_
  z-index: 9;_x000D_
  cursor: pointer;_x000D_
  -webkit-transition: all 0.25s linear;_x000D_
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ul li:hover label{_x000D_
 color: #FFFFFF;_x000D_
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ul li .check{_x000D_
  display: block;_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  border: 5px solid #AAAAAA;_x000D_
  border-radius: 100%;_x000D_
  height: 25px;_x000D_
  width: 25px;_x000D_
  top: 30px;_x000D_
  left: 20px;_x000D_
 z-index: 5;_x000D_
 transition: border .25s linear;_x000D_
 -webkit-transition: border .25s linear;_x000D_
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ul li:hover .check {_x000D_
  border: 5px solid #FFFFFF;_x000D_
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ul li .check::before {_x000D_
  display: block;_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
 content: '';_x000D_
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  width: 15px;_x000D_
  top: 5px;_x000D_
 left: 5px;_x000D_
  margin: auto;_x000D_
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 -webkit-transition: background 0.25s linear;_x000D_
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input[type=radio]:checked ~ .check {_x000D_
  border: 5px solid #0DFF92;_x000D_
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input[type=radio]:checked ~ .check::before{_x000D_
  background: #0DFF92;_x000D_
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    <input type="radio" id="f-option" name="selector">_x000D_
    <label for="f-option">Male</label>_x000D_
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    <div class="check"></div>_x000D_
  </li>_x000D_
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  <li>_x000D_
    <input type="radio" id="s-option" name="selector">_x000D_
    <label for="s-option">Female</label>_x000D_
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    <div class="check"><div class="inside"></div></div>_x000D_
  </li>_x000D_
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  <li>_x000D_
    <input type="radio" id="t-option" name="selector">_x000D_
    <label for="t-option">Transgender</label>_x000D_
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    <div class="check"><div class="inside"></div></div>_x000D_
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</ul>

You can also use the transform property, with required value in scale:

input[type=radio]{transform:scale(2);}

This css seems to do the trick:

input[type=radio] {
    border: 0px;
    width: 100%;
    height: 2em;
}

Setting the border to 0 seems to allow the user to change the size of the button and have the browser render it in that size for eg. the above height: 2em will render the button at twice the line height. This also works for checkboxes (input[type=checkbox]). Some browsers render better than others.

From a windows box it works in IE8+, FF21+, Chrome29+.

Directly you can not do this. [As per my knowledge].

You should use images to supplant the radio buttons. You can make them function in the same manner as the radio buttons inmost cases, and you can make them any size you want.

Old question but now there is a simple solution, compatible with most browsers, which is to use CSS3. I tested in IE, Firefox and Chrome and it works.

input[type="radio"] {
    -ms-transform: scale(1.5); /* IE 9 */
    -webkit-transform: scale(1.5); /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
    transform: scale(1.5);
}

Change the value 1.5, in this case an increment of 50% in size, according to your needs. If the ratio is very high, it can blur the radio button. The next image shows a ratio of 1.5.

A solution which works quite well is described right here: https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Input/radio

The idea is to use the property (appearance), which when sets to none allows to change the width and height of the radio button. The radio buttons are not blurry, and you can add other effect like transitions and stuff.

Here's an example :

input {
  -webkit-appearance: none;
  -moz-appearance: none;
  appearance: none;

  border-radius: 50%;
  width: 16px;
  height: 16px;

  border: 2px solid #999;
  transition: 0.2s all linear;
  margin-right: 5px;

  position: relative;
  top: 4px;
}

input:checked {
  border: 6px solid black;
  outline: unset !important /* I added this one for Edge (chromium) support */
}

The only drawback is that it is not supported yet on IE.

Here's a GIF (with a not so good rendering) below to give an idea of what can be achieved: you will get way better results on an actual browser.

And the plunker : https://plnkr.co/plunk/1W3QXWPi7hdxZJuT

<html>
    <head>
    </head>
    <body>

<style>
.redradio {border:5px black solid;border-radius:25px;width:25px;height:25px;background:red;float:left;}
.greenradio {border:5px black solid;border-radius:25px;width:29px;height:29px;background:green;float:left;}
.radiobuttons{float:left;clear:both;margin-bottom:10px;}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function switchON(groupelement,groupvalue,buttonelement,buttonvalue) {
    var groupelements = document.getElementById(groupelement);
    var buttons = groupelements.getElementsByTagName("button");
    for (i=0;i<buttons.length;i++) {
        if (buttons[i].id.indexOf("_on") != -1) {
            buttons[i].style.display="none";
        } else {
            buttons[i].style.display="block";
        }
    }
    var buttonON = buttonelement + "_button_on";
    var buttonOFF = buttonelement + "_button_off";
    document.getElementById(buttonON).style.display="block";
    document.getElementById(buttonOFF).style.display="none";
    document.getElementById(groupvalue).value=buttonvalue;
}
// -->
</script>

<form>
    <h1>farbige Radiobutton</h1>
    <div id="button_group">
        <input type="hidden" name="button_value" id="button_value" value=""/>
        <span class="radiobuttons">
            <button type="button" value="OFF1" name="button1_button_off" id="button1_button_off" onclick="switchON('button_group','button_value','button1',this.value)" class="redradio"></button>
            <button type="button" value="ON1" name="button1_button_on" id="button1_button_on" style="display:none;" class="greenradio"></button>
            <label for="button1_button_on">&nbsp;&nbsp;Ich will eins</label>
        </span><br/>
        <span class="radiobuttons">
            <button type="button" value="OFF2" name="button2_button_off" id="button2_button_off" onclick="switchON('button_group','button_value','button2',this.value)" class="redradio"></button>
            <button type="button" value="ON2" name="button2_button_on" id="button2_button_on" style="display:none;" class="greenradio"></button>
            <label for="button2_button_on">&nbsp;&nbsp;Ich will zwei</label>
        </span><br/>
        <span class="radiobuttons">
            <button type="button" value="OFF3" name="button3_button_off" id="button3_button_off" onclick="switchON('button_group','button_value','button3',this.value)" class="redradio"></button>
            <button type="button" value="ON3" name="button3_button_on" id="button3_button_on" style="display:none;" class="greenradio"></button>
            <label for="button3_button_on">&nbsp;&nbsp;Ich will drei</label>
        </span><br/>
        <span class="radiobuttons">
            <button type="button" value="OFF4" name="button4_button_off" id="button4_button_off" onclick="switchON('button_group','button_value','button4',this.value)" class="redradio"></button>
            <button type="button" value="ON4" name="button4_button_on" id="button4_button_on" style="display:none;" class="greenradio"></button>
            <label for="button4_button_on">&nbsp;&nbsp;Ich will vier</label>
        </span>
    </div>
</form>

    </body>
</html>

You can control radio button's size with css style:

style="height:35px; width:35px;"

This directly controls the radio button size.

<input type="radio" name="radio" value="value" style="height:35px; width:35px; vertical-align: middle;">

Not directly. In fact, form elements in general are either problematic or impossible to style using CSS alone. the best approach is to:

1. hide the radio button using javascript.
2. Use javascript to add/display HTML that can be styled how you like e.g.
3. Define css rules for a selected state, which is triggered by adding a class "selected" to yuor span.
4. Finally, write javascript to make the radio button's state react to clicks on the span, and, vice versa, to get the span to react to changes in the radio button's state (for when users use the keyboard to access the form). the second part of this can be tricky to get to work across all browsers. I use something like the following (which also uses jQuery. I avoid adding extra spans too by styling and applying the "selected" class directly to the input labels).

javascript

var labels = $("ul.radioButtons).delegate("input", "keyup", function () { //keyboard use
        if (this.checked) {
            select($(this).parent());
        }
    }).find("label").bind("click", function (event) { //mouse use
        select($(this));
    });

function select(el) {
    labels.removeClass("selected");
    el.addClass("selected");
}

html

<ul class="radioButtons">
    <li>
        <label for="employee1">
            employee1
            <input type="radio" id="employee1" name="employee" />
        </label>
    </li>
    <li>
        <label for="employee2">
            employee1
            <input type="radio" id="employee2" name="employee" />
        </label>
    </li>
</ul>

Resizing the default widget doesn’t work in all browsers, but you can make custom radio buttons with JavaScript. One of the ways is to create hidden radio buttons and then place your own images on your page. Clicking on these images changes the images (replaces the clicked image with an image with a radio button in a selected state and replaces the other images with radio buttons in an unselected state) and selects the new radio button.

Anyway, there is documentation on this subject. For example, read this: Styling Checkboxes and Radio Buttons with CSS and JavaScript.