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alt-checkbox is a jQuery based alternative to standard html checkbox that helps you to create beautiful and scalable checkbox using CSS and Icon Fonts.

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alt-checkbox

Style checkbox with CSS and Icon Fonts with help of alt-checkbox jQuery plugin. It's a nice alternative for standard html checkbox.

Demo and Home Page

Features:

  • It hides standard html "input checkbox" but synchronizes with it
  • It uses icon fonts
  • It scales as you want. You just set up a font-size and that's all
  • It can be styled as you wish with help of css
  • It's possible to navigate and check with keyboard (tab and space)

Example of how to use it

First, include some scripts and styles for alt-checkbox in head section.

<head>    <!-- 1. jQuery -->    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>     <!-- 2. @import an icon font inside this file, Font Awesome is used by default -->    <link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery.alt-checkbox.icon-font.css">     <!-- 3. Style checkboxes if you want inside this file -->    <link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery.alt-checkbox.css">     <!-- 4. Include alt-checkbox jQuery plugin -->    <script src="jquery.alt-checkbox.js"></script> </head> 

Then, replace some standard HTML checkboxes with alt-checkbox.

<body>   <input type="checkbox" id="checkbox1">   <label for="checkbox1">Check Me!</label>    <script>     jQuery("#checkbox1").altCheckbox({       iconClass: "fa-thumbs-o-up"       /* and some other options if you need */     });   </script> </body> 

Release 2.0.0

  • Plugin refactoring, less number of files.
  • Default flat background of checkboxes.
  • cdnjs urls for jquery, font awesome, etc.
  • New jquery, font awesome.

Browsers

Tested in the following browsers:

  • Chrome 28
  • FireFox 22
  • Opera 12
  • IE 9
  • Safari 5

alt-checkbox plugin is under the MIT license.


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