prettyCheckboxes, a solution to checkboxes

by: Stéphane Caron

This script is for people who wants to have a consistent look for checkboxes across browser or those who simply want them to look better. By using this script you wont loose any of the regular inputs usability. If you have any comment/suggestion please post them in the main script post.

Demo

Browser support

This plugin has been tested and is known to work in the following browsers

Firefox 3.0 (Mac/PC/Linux)
Firefox 2.0 (Mac/PC/Linux)
Opera 9.5 (Mac/PC)
Safari 3.1.1 (Mac)
Internet Explorer 6.0 (PC)
Internet Explorer 7.0 (PC)

Copyright

This script is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5. So you can use it in all you projects even commercial ones. Donations are always welcome.

Download

Uncompressed version (Script: 2.8kb)

Compressed version (Script: 2kb)

Version history

1.1: Added support to check several checkboxes, fixed a bug in IE7 where the box would still be displayed as "over" when unchecked.
1.0: Initial release of prettyCheckboxes.

How to use

Nothing is easier to use. First include the jQuery library then include the prettyCheckboxes javascript in the head of the page(s) where you want to use prettyCheckboxes.
jQuery can be download here

IMPORTANT: For the script to work properly EVERY labels need to have a "for" attribute linking to the ID of their corresponding checkbox/radio

				
<script src="js/jquery.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="js/prettyCheckboxes.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>

Then you need to initalize prettyCheckboxes.

				
$(document).ready(function(){
	$('input[type=checkbox],input[type=radio]').prettyCheckboxes();
});

If you want prettyComments to be initialized on specific inputs, you can specify which element by using a CSS selector, like so:

				
$(document).ready(function(){
	$('input.myCheckbox').prettyCheckboxes();
});

You can provide several parameters to the function if you want to customize it a bit further

				
$(document).ready(function(){
	$('input[type=checkbox],input[type=radio]').prettyCheckboxes({
		checkboxWidth: 17, // The width of your custom checkbox
		checkboxHeight: 17, // The height of your custom checkbox
		className : 'prettyCheckbox', // The classname of your custom checkbox
		display: 'list' // The style you want it to be display (inline or list)
	});
});

If you want to check all the checkboxes that are part of a group, you can use the checkAllPrettyCheckboxes() function.

This function takes 2 parameters, the first one is a reference to the element calling the function, it should always be "this". The second parameter is a reference to the checkboxes container, in this exemple it is $('#checkboxDemo').

				
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox-all" id="checkbox-all" value="checkbox-all" onclick="checkAllPrettyCheckboxes(this,$('#checkboxDemo'));" />

If you can to customize the look of the inputs, you can customize those image

Please note that you have the hover and selected state in the same image and that the inputs should be at the same position, unless you want/can modify the CSS yourself.

That's it, now your inputs should behave the same as in the demo on this page

Support

If you need support, you can leave a comment in the main prettyCheckboxes post.

Donations

I spent a big amount of time to develop/support this script. You liked it? Feel free to donate!