#radio buttons

[bilesandthesourwolf]

I was today years old when I learned these are called "radio buttons"

[spankymerve]

What I've Been Reading: February 18, 2024

It’s been a while since we’ve checked in. Let’s talk about the state of the games industry and the state of the Web. Continue reading What I’ve Been Reading: February 18, 2024

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[webdesignf-blog]

20+ Stylish Custom CSS Checkboxes and Radio Buttons

20+ Stylish Custom CSS Checkboxes and Radio Buttons

Radio buttons and checkboxes that have been styled are usually considered too flashy and unnecessary by many developers. However, sometimes they become the necessity especially when the existing styling of the pages is poor and does not give the type of functionality that is required. There are a number of creative things that can be done with both, checkboxes and radio buttons, to make them look…

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[learningbits]

Each input type has a very specific use-case, and using the wrong input can be confusing for your users.

[vizkid]

Prototype Radio Button Serialization Bug

It turns out that my favorite JavaScript library has a rather weird chink in its otherwise impregnable armor. The Form.Serialize method makes a complete hash (no not an object hash, a right royal mess kind of hash) of serializing radio buttons. Google of course came to the rescue with this very excellent fix from Rex Chung. This works great if you've got one set of radio buttons, I had an unknown number to deal with. So here is a slightly modified version that uses Prototype's findAll:

Form.getInputs('formName','radio').findAll(function(rad){ return rad.checked; }).each(function(rad) { //Deal with each radio button here by referencing the method argument "rad" alert(rad.value); });

Works like a charm.

[herrwagner1680-blog]

SVG Radio Buttons

When I originally made my Charts Sampler program, I didn’t like the default design of HTML radio buttons. After a little bit of googling, I discovered that you can design your own radio buttons using only CSS. 

The trick involves using a <span> within a <span> and creating a circle within each other, using the border-radius command.

EXAMPLE CODE:

However, depending on how zoomed in or zoomed out your browser is, that “trick” looked pretty shoddy.

Above: example of using border-radius to draw circles

Sometimes the smaller circle would perfectly sit snugly inside the bigger circle. But more often then not, that smaller circle would move downward, or off to the side. It didn’t matter if I used %, em, px ... whatever units I used for setting the dimensions of each circle, it would still skew on many browser magnification settings.

Fast forward a few months...

Now that I’m gaining a better understanding of SVG, I decided to try to revise my Chart Sampler code by using SVG circles in place of border-radius.

In my quest to solve this problem, I located a JS Fiddle program that illustrated how you can nest SVG points in a CSS background-image: url command.

Once I got my SVG data to work in the JS Fiddle program, I then copied it into my Chart CSS Stylesheet.

Note: the ‘.inner’ class is the name I gave the <span> within the <span>

Now, with the SVG version, the circles remain perfectly inside each other. (The outside circle is actually described by the SVG stroke and stroke-width attributes. The inner circle is the fill.)

In case you’re curious, the green/gray circles use this line for the background-image:

background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='30' width='30'><circle cx='15' cy='15' r='8' stroke='#666' stroke-width='3' fill='#99c199' /></svg>");

[htmluse]

New Post has been published on Html Use

New Post has been published on http://www.htmluse.com/fatoggle-creates-toggling-icons-with-font-awesome-icons/

faToggle - creates toggling icons with Font Awesome Icons.

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faToggle is a jQuery plugin that creates toggling icons with Font Awesome Icons.

Features

Create Toggle buttons with font awesome icons

Create Radio and checkbox form elements with font awesome icons

Assign event handlers for toggle on and off

Designed for Font Awesome 4.2.0 and up

[matiaspaget]

Summary: Select a single radio button by default in most cases. Reasons to deviate or not: expedite tasks, the power of suggestion, user expectations, safety nets.