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CSS CSS Selectors Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes Element States Pseudo-Classes

Posted by Sherrie Gossett
Sherrie Gossett
14,924 Points

Curious....

How would you use CSS to target/change the shape, size, and fill color of a checkbox in a form?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points

You can't directly change the appearance of a checkbox with CSS.

But a common technique is to make the checkbox invisible and link it to a pseudo-element or sibling element which displays a desired replacement image.

I recently took the Angular Basics (JavaScript) course and saw this technique being used in the example project.

Sherrie Gossett
Sherrie Gossett
14,924 Points

Interesting. Thanks, Steven!