[css] CSS checkbox input styling

Any style for input affects every input element. Is there a way to specify styling to apply for only checkboxes without applying a class to each check box element?

Something I recently discovered for styling Radio Buttons AND Checkboxes. Before, I had to use jQuery and other things. But this is stupidly simple.

input[type=radio] {
    padding-left:5px;
    padding-right:5px;
    border-radius:15px;

    -webkit-appearance:button;

    border: double 2px #00F;

    background-color:#0b0095;
    color:#FFF;
    white-space: nowrap;
    overflow:hidden;

    width:15px;
    height:15px;
}

input[type=radio]:checked {
    background-color:#000;
    border-left-color:#06F;
    border-right-color:#06F;
}

input[type=radio]:hover {
    box-shadow:0px 0px 10px #1300ff;
}

You can do the same for a checkbox, obviously change the input[type=radio] to input[type=checkbox] and change border-radius:15px; to border-radius:4px;.

Hope this is somewhat useful to you.

Although CSS does provide a way for you to do the style specific to the checkbox type or another type, there are going to be problems with browsers that do not support this.

I think your only option in this case is going to be to apply classes to your checkboxes.

just add the class="checkbox" to your checkboxes.

Then create that style in your css code.

One thing you could do is this:

main.css

input[type="checkbox"] { /* css code here */ }

ie.css

.checkbox{ /* css code here for ie */ }

Then use the IE specific css include:

<!--[if lt IE 7]>
   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie.css" />
<![endif]-->

You will still need to add the class for it to work in IE, and it will not work in other non-IE browsers that do not support IE. But it will make your website forward-thinking with css code and as IE gets support, you will be able to remove the ie specific css code and also the css classes from the checkboxes.

As IE6 doesn't understand attribute selectors, you can combine a script only seen by IE6 (with conditional comments) and jQuery or IE7.js by Dean Edwards.

IE7(.js) is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.

The choice of using classes or jQuery or IE7.js depends on your likes and dislikes and your other needs (maybe PNG-24 transparency throughout your site without having to rely on PNG-8 with complete transparency that fallbacks to 1-bit transparency on IE6 - only created by Fireworks and pngnq, etc)

You can apply only to certain attribute by doing:

input[type="checkbox"] {...}

It explains it here.

Classes also work well, such as:

<style>
  form input .checkbox
  {
    /* your checkbox styling */
  }
</style>

<form>
  <input class="checkbox" type="checkbox" />
</form>

input[type="checkbox"] {
 /* your style */
}

But this will only work for browsers except IE7 and below, for those you will have to use a class.

Trident provides the ::-ms-check pseudo-element for checkbox and radio button controls. For example:

<input type="checkbox">
<input type="radio">

::-ms-check {
    color: red;
    background: black;
    padding: 1em;
}

This displays as follows in IE10 on Windows 8:

I create my own solution without label

input[type=checkbox] {_x000D_
         position: relative;_x000D_
        cursor: pointer;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    input[type=checkbox]:before {_x000D_
         content: "";_x000D_
         display: block;_x000D_
         position: absolute;_x000D_
         width: 16px;_x000D_
         height: 16px;_x000D_
         top: 0;_x000D_
         left: 0;_x000D_
         border: 2px solid #555555;_x000D_
         border-radius: 3px;_x000D_
         background-color: white;_x000D_
}_x000D_
    input[type=checkbox]:checked:after {_x000D_
         content: "";_x000D_
         display: block;_x000D_
         width: 5px;_x000D_
         height: 10px;_x000D_
         border: solid black;_x000D_
         border-width: 0 2px 2px 0;_x000D_
         -webkit-transform: rotate(45deg);_x000D_
         -ms-transform: rotate(45deg);_x000D_
         transform: rotate(45deg);_x000D_
         position: absolute;_x000D_
         top: 2px;_x000D_
         left: 6px;_x000D_
}

<input type="checkbox" name="a">_x000D_
<input type="checkbox" name="a">_x000D_
<input type="checkbox" name="a">_x000D_
<input type="checkbox" name="a">

input[type=checkbox] {_x000D_
         position: relative;_x000D_
        cursor: pointer;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    input[type=checkbox]:before {_x000D_
         content: "";_x000D_
         display: block;_x000D_
         position: absolute;_x000D_
         width: 20px;_x000D_
         height: 20px;_x000D_
         top: 0;_x000D_
         left: 0;_x000D_
         background-color:#e9e9e9;_x000D_
}_x000D_
input[type=checkbox]:checked:before {_x000D_
         content: "";_x000D_
         display: block;_x000D_
         position: absolute;_x000D_
         width: 20px;_x000D_
         height: 20px;_x000D_
         top: 0;_x000D_
         left: 0;_x000D_
         background-color:#1E80EF;_x000D_
}_x000D_
    input[type=checkbox]:checked:after {_x000D_
         content: "";_x000D_
         display: block;_x000D_
         width: 5px;_x000D_
         height: 10px;_x000D_
         border: solid white;_x000D_
         border-width: 0 2px 2px 0;_x000D_
         -webkit-transform: rotate(45deg);_x000D_
         -ms-transform: rotate(45deg);_x000D_
         transform: rotate(45deg);_x000D_
         position: absolute;_x000D_
         top: 2px;_x000D_
         left: 6px;_x000D_
}

<input type="checkbox" name="a">_x000D_
<input type="checkbox" name="a">_x000D_
<input type="checkbox" name="a">_x000D_
<input type="checkbox" name="a">