Styling radio button - not work in IE and Firefox

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Try this out: jsfiddle

What you need to do is hide the radio button and only use the label for toggling it. So, I set input[type="radio"] to display:none, and moved some of the CSS to the label selector or a new selector for the button, to which I gave the class 'button':

HTML:

<input type="radio" id ="light" name="choice" value="none"">
<label for="light">
<span class="button"></span>
Light me
</label>​​​

CSS:

input[type="radio"] {
    display:none;
}
.button {   background:url('http://refundfx.com.au/uploads/image/checkbox_empty.png') center center no-repeat;
    background-size: 2em;
    width: 2em;
    height: 2em;
    float:left;
}
label { 
    cursor: pointer;
    line-height:32px;
}
​

Here's a good walk through of stylizing inputs with CSS: http://www.wufoo.com/2011/06/13/custom-radio-buttons-and-checkboxes/

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Updated on August 21, 2022

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  • Johncze
    Johncze over 1 year

    I have tried to make own style of radio button. Everything works well in Chrome, but in IE and Firefox there are still some display errors.

    Here is the code:

    HTML

    <input type="radio" id ="light" name="choice" value="none""><label for="light">Light me</label>
    

    CSS

    input[type="radio"] {
    appearance: none;
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    -moz-appearance: none;
    background:url('http://refundfx.com.au/uploads/image/checkbox_empty.png') center center no-repeat;
    background-size: 2em;
    width: 2em;
    height: 2em;
    cursor: pointer;
    vertical-align: middle;
    }​
    

    What is wrong?

    Thanks a lot for answers.

  • emyller
    emyller over 10 years
    The problem about hiding input elements is that they lose their keyboard navigation ability. And that's sad.
  • Gauthier
    Gauthier almost 8 years
    The other problem I've found is some browsers will not show an alert for required hidden elements.