10 Best Custom Checkbox And Radio Input Replacements (2024 Update)
Tired of the ugly native checkboxes and radio buttons in the form?
This is a collection of 10 best free jQuery and Pure CSS libraries to enhance, beautify and manipulate the default native checkboxes and radio buttons in your document. I hope you like it.
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Originally Published Nov 30 2017, updated Jan 30 2024
Table of contents:
jQuery Custom Checkbox & Radio Plugins:
jQuery Plugin For Beautifying Checkboxes And Radio Buttons - iCheck
A fancy and lightweight jQuery plugin that allows you to create touch-enabled, fully accessible, highly customizable checkboxes and radio buttons with 25 built-in options and 6 skins.
Transform Checkbox Into Toggle Switch - jQuery switchify
A simple, lightweight jQuery plugin that transforms the regular checkbox input into iOS style toggle switches with a single JS call.
Nice Checkbox And Radio Button Replacement Plugin - nicelabel.js
A tiny jQuery plugin that converts the default checkboxes and radio buttons into nice toggleable switches and/or selectable labels.
jQuery Plugin To Turn Radio Buttons & Checkboxes Into Labels - zInput
A simple lightweight jQuery plugin that turns the standard checkboxes and radio buttons into better looking clickable labels.
jQuery Plugin For Custom Bootstrap Checkboxes - bootstrap-checkbox-x
A lightweight jQuery extension for Bootstrap that enhances the default Bootstrap checkbox input with 3 states (checked, unchecked, tri-state), custom CSS styles and contextual colors.
Pure CSS Custom Checkbox & Radio Replacements:
el-checkbox
A pure CSS/CSS3 library to create custom checkboxes, radio buttons, and iOS-style toggle switches.
Create Segmented Controls With Radio Buttons – Toggle Radios
A pure CSS library which converts a group or radios into responsive, customizable, SEO-friendly inline toggle button groups (also called segmented controls).
Custom Checkbox And Radio Inputs In Pure CSS
A collection of CSS styles to customize the checkboxes and radio buttons with your own styles, images, and CSS sprites.
Convert Checkboxes & Radio Buttons Into Grouped Buttons – boxed-check.css
A CSS library that converts normal checkboxes and radio buttons into checkable (toggleable) elements (like buttons and cards) for better UX.
icheck
A CSS extension for Bootstrap that allows you to apply custom styles to the default checkboxes and radio buttons.
More Resources:
- 10 Best Checkbox And Radio Input Replacements
- 10 Best Toggle Switches In JavaScript & Pure CSS
- 10 Best JavaScript Plugins To Check All Checkboxes
- 10 Best Toggle Switch JavaScript And CSS Libraries