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How to place the label right besides the checkbox?

Hi everyone,

I am trying to solve this for a while now.

input type="checkbox" id="html_news" value="html-news" name="user-age"> <label for="HTML news">HTML News</label>
<input type="checkbox" id="CSS News" value="CSS News" name="user-age"> <label for="under_13" class="light">CSS News</label>

So as in the subject, how do i get the label description right beside the checkbox? :) I tried different variations with display: inline / inline-block, but haven't solved it yet. Hope you can help me. Thanks in advance.

4 Answers

Joachim Larsen
Joachim Larsen
12,140 Points

Try to wrap the input tag within the label tag. When I tried this, they became inline with each other. (This also makes the label text clickable to select a checkbox or radio button), like this:

<div class="check"> <label for="HTML news"> <input type="checkbox" id="html_news" value="html-news" name="user-age"> HTML News </label> <div>

Joachim Larsen
Joachim Larsen
12,140 Points
Joachim Larsen
Joachim Larsen
12,140 Points

Hi there! :-)

Are you maybe talking about vertical alignment? You didn't provide any of your CSS, but have you tried the vertical-align property on your input? :-)

Amrit Pandey
Amrit Pandey
17,595 Points
Amrit Pandey
Amrit Pandey
17,595 Points

HTML:

<form>
 <div class="form">
  <div class="checkbox-container">
   <input type="checkbox" id="html_news" value="html-news" name="user-age"> <label for="HTML news">HTML News</label>
  </div>
  <div class="checkbox-container">
   <input type="checkbox" id="html_news" value="html-news" name="user-age"> <label for="HTML news">HTML News</label>
  </div>
 </div>
</form>

CSS(with flexbox):

.form{display:flex; flex-direction:column;}

.checkbox-container{display:flex;}

CSS(with normal CSS)[may conatain error]

.checkbox-container input[type="checkbox"]{display:inline-block;}
.checkbox-container label{display:inline;}

Designing forms are the main challenges.

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Thanks Amrit,

Only in this stage i prefer not to use flexbox. I tried that earlier in comination with bootstrap and it seemed they seemed to give conflict. I don't know maybe I didn't understand it. For now i would like to learn everything from the basics.

I have put the normal css in my code, but i think it does contain an error. https://w.trhou.se/6ul5g2kfiu

Amrit Pandey
Amrit Pandey
17,595 Points
Amrit Pandey
Amrit Pandey
17,595 Points

Flexbox is new, it is still basic.