Re:HTML and CSS techniques to reduce your JavaScript
by runarberg on Friday June 04, 2021 @01:09PM
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Custom radio buttons and checkboxes are remarkably easy if you style the <input> it self using `appearance: none`. With multiple background images and masks there is really no need for a complicated sibling selectors and <label> setup:
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Re:HTML and CSS techniques to reduce your JavaScript
by extra88 on Friday June 04, 2021 @02:27PM
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That's good to keep in mind. No IE support for `appearance` but it can be used in such a way that it's just a more ordinary input in that browser.
There are still more things you can do within a label. This is a good article on improving methods of visually hiding the actual inputs.
https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/inclusively-hiding-and-sty...