Custom Checkboxes Using CSS and Font Awesome

Hi Guys, In this blog we are going to create custom checkboxes using css and font awesome icons.

As we all know that in every single app, we can see the use of these custom checkboxes, as they looks nice comparing with the default ones. How can we do that?

We can simply create these custom checkboxes with the help of CSS and we will also use font awesome css for the icons that we will require for the checked and unchecked checkboxes.

If you don’t want to use FontAwesome, then you can also use your custom images as per your requirement.

You can simply get the FontAwesome css from the below url :

https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
 

Now we will start by creating our structure for the checkboxes:

     
     Checkbox 1


      
     Checkbox 2


     
     Checkbox 3


      
     Checkbox 4

It’s necessary that you define ‘for’ on the label as our checkboxes will be hidden by default. With the help of label we can identify our checkboxes.

Now we will write some CSS to make the custom design of checkboxes.

.label {
	position: relative;
	padding-left: 30px;
	font-size: 14px;
	cursor: pointer;
}
.label:before, .label:after {
	font-family: FontAwesome;
	font-size: 20px;
	position: absolute;
	left: 0;
}

/*icon for unchecked checkbox*/
.label:before {
	content: '\f096'; 
}

/*icon for checked checkbox*/
.label:after {
	content: '\f046';
	max-width: 0;
	overflow: hidden;
	opacity: 0.5;
	transition: all 0.35s;
}

input[type="checkbox"] {
	display: none;
}

input[type="checkbox"]:checked + .label:after {
	max-width: 25px;
	opacity: 1; 
}
 

You can also modify the above css as per your requirement as I am using the basic properties, Hope you find the above blog useful.

In this was you can create Custom Checkboxes using CSS.