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Pretty checkbox

A pure CSS library to beautify checkbox and radio buttons.

From lokesh-coder·Updated May 25, 2026·View on GitHub·

**pretty checkbox** is A pure CSS library to beautify checkbox and radio buttons. The project is written primarily in CSS, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2016. It has gained significant community traction with 1,806 stars and 149 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: animation, bootstrap, checkbox, css, html.

Latest release: v3.0.3
October 21, 2017View Changelog →
<h1 align="center"> <br> <a href="https://lokesh-coder.github.io/pretty-checkbox/"><img src="logo.png" alt="Pretty checkbox" width="100"></a> <br> <br> pretty-checkbox.css <br> </h1> <h4 align="center">A pure CSS library to beautify checkbox and radio buttons.</h4> <p align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/lokesh-coder/pretty-checkbox/releases"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/github/release/lokesh-coder/pretty-checkbox.svg?style=flat-square&colorA=8033b0&colorB=75b7dd" alt="Github Release"> </a> <a href="LICENSE"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/npm/l/pretty-checkbox.svg?style=flat-square&colorA=8033b0&colorB=75b7dd" alt="Licence"> </a> <a href="#"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/pretty-checkbox.svg?style=flat-square&colorA=8033b0&colorB=75b7dd" alt="Downloads"> </a> </p> <br> <div class="highlight highlight-source-shell"> <pre> <div align="center"><strong >Demo and documentation</strong></div> <div align="center"><a align="center" href="https://lokesh-coder.github.io/pretty-checkbox/">https://lokesh-coder.github.io/pretty-checkbox/</a></div> </pre> </div> <div align="center"> <img src="preview.gif" alt="Pretty checkbox preview"/> </div>

Features

  • Basic
    • Shapes - Square, Curve, Round
    • Variants - Default, Fill, Thick
    • Colors - Primary, Success, Info, Warning, Danger
    • Color types - Solid, Outline
    • Animations - Smooth, Tada, Jelly, Pulse, Rotate
  • Switch - iOS style - Outline, Fill, Slim
  • Responsive
  • No JavaScript
  • Custom Font Icons
  • SVG Icons
  • Image support
  • Toggle between icons / SVG's / images
  • Lock
  • State - Focus, Hover, Indeterminate
  • Supports frameworks - Bootstrap, Foundation, Sematic UI, Bulma, ...
  • SCSS customization
  • Supports all modern browsers, including mobile devices
  • Print friendly
  • and more... ( I am kidding, that's all! )

Installation

  • From CLI

Install the library from npm or yarn package manager

sh
> npm install pretty-checkbox // or > yarn add pretty-checkbox

Add pretty-checkbox.min.css in your html

<br>
html
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/pretty-checkbox@3.0/dist/pretty-checkbox.min.css"/>
<br>

Download the source from Github.

html
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../<PATH>/pretty-checkbox/dist/pretty-checkbox.min.css"/>

<PATH> is where the library is downloaded.

<br>

SCSS

You can also import pretty-checkbox.scss in your main scss file.

scss
@import '~pretty-checkbox/src/pretty-checkbox.scss';

Please refer the document for SCSS settings.

Usage

Pretty checkbox comes with many styles,

Class nameDescription
p-defaultBasic style
p-switchiOS like toggle style
p-iconCustom font icons
p-svgCustom SVG files, markup
p-imageTiny images

And three shapes p-round p-curve p-square (default)

Basic checkbox

html
<div class="pretty p-default"> <input type="checkbox" /> <div class="state"> <label>Check me</label> </div> </div>

Basic checkbox has three variants p-fill p-thick p-outline (default)

You can combine them.

html
<div class="pretty p-default p-curve p-fill"> <input type="checkbox" /> <div class="state"> <label>Fill</label> </div> </div>
<div align="center"><strong >---</strong></div>

Switch checkbox

Switch has three variants p-outline p-fill p-slim

html
<div class="pretty p-switch p-fill"> <input type="checkbox" /> <div class="state"> <label>On</label> </div> </div>
<div align="center"><strong >---</strong></div>

Custom Font icons

html
<div class="pretty p-icon"> <input type="checkbox"> <div class="state"> <i class="icon fa fa-check"></i> <label>Check me</label> </div> </div>
<blockquote> <sub> <strong>Note</strong>: class `icon` should be added along with icon class names </sub> </blockquote> <blockquote> <sub> <strong>Note</strong>: For icons to work, you need to add appropriate font icons library. In above example , we used font awesome icon. So, FontAwesome should be included separately. </sub> </blockquote> <div align="right"> <i><sub><a href="https://lokesh-coder.github.io/pretty-checkbox#fonticons"> more details</a></sub></i> </div> <div align="center"><strong >---</strong></div>

SVG

Supports SVG file in <img/> tag, markup (<svg> ... </svg>) and sprites

html
<div class="pretty p-svg"> <input type="checkbox"> <div class="state"> <img class="svg" src="file.svg" /> <label>Check me</label> </div> </div>
<blockquote> <sub> <strong>Note</strong>: class `svg` to be added in img tag or svg tag. </sub> </blockquote> <div align="right"> <i><sub><a href="https://lokesh-coder.github.io/pretty-checkbox#svg">more details</a></sub></i> </div> <div align="center"><strong >---</strong></div>

Image

Supports any type of valid image format.

html
<div class="pretty p-image"> <input type="checkbox" /> <div class="state"> <img class="image" src="/check.png" /> <label>Block</label> </div> </div>
<blockquote> <sub> <strong>Note</strong>: class `image` to be added in img tag. </sub> </blockquote> <div align="right"> <i><sub><a href="https://lokesh-coder.github.io/pretty-checkbox#image">more details</a></sub></i> </div> <div align="center"><strong >---</strong></div>

Colors

There are five solid colors p-primary p-success p-warning p-info p-danger

And five outline colors p-primary-o p-success-o p-warning-o p-info-o p-danger-o

html
<div class="pretty p-default p-curve p-thick"> <input type="checkbox" /> <div class="state p-warning"> <label>Warning</label> </div> </div>
<blockquote> <sub> <strong>Note</strong>: Color class must be added in state class. Solid colors and Ouline colors have distinct role in font icons and toggle feature. </sub> </blockquote> <div align="right"> <i><sub><a href="https://lokesh-coder.github.io/pretty-checkbox#colors">more details</a></sub></i> </div>

More

There are more features like Radio buttons , Toggle , States , Animations , Border less , Lock , Scale, SCSS Settings.

Please refer the documentation to know about them.

Browser support

Works in all modern browsers.

Chrome >= 26 Firefox >= 16 Safari >= 6.1 Opera >= 15 IE >= 9

Font Icon libraries

SVG

Libraries

Inspiration

Contributions

Thanks to all those good people who spend their valuable time and helped to improve this library. Any Contributions are welcome!

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License

<div align="center"><sub>❤</sub></div>

Contributors

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