Move checkbox label to left on bootstrap custom checkbox

Question

I have a checkbox

<div class="custom-control custom-checkbox custom-control-inline">
   <input type="checkbox"  id="location"  v-model="checkedLocations"   value="location" name="customRadioInline1" class="custom-control-input">
   <label class="custom-control-label" for="location"> Option 1</label>
</div>

How do I move the label to display on the left? I have tried changing the order but it just breaks the checkbox functionlity.

    <div class="custom-control custom-checkbox custom-control-inline">
         <label class="custom-control-label" for="location2"> Option 2</label>
        <input type="checkbox"  id="location2"  value="location2" name="custom2" class="custom-control-input">
   </div>

CODEPEN Link to show both examples

Answer 1

The answers don't seem to work with custom-switch. Here's a working example.

CSS

div.custom-control-right {
    padding-right: 24px;
    padding-left: 0;
    margin-left: 0;
    margin-right: 0;
}
div.custom-control-right .custom-control-label::after{
    right: -1.5rem;
    left: auto;
}
div.custom-control-right .custom-control-label::before {
    right: -2.35rem;
    left: auto;
}

HTML

<div class="custom-control custom-control-right custom-switch">
    <input type="checkbox" class="custom-control-input" disabled id="customSwitch2">
    <label class="custom-control-label" for="customSwitch2">Right switch element</label>
</div>

JsFiddle

https://jsfiddle.net/2cmbq9r0/

Edit: changed left:initial to left:auto to make it work with IE11.

Answer 2

The checkbox is not the actual <input> (that's hidden). This is done in order to style it consistently cross-browser, cross-device, as that's not currently possible for <input type="checkbox">.

Instead, the ::before pseudo-element of the <label> is used.

Therefore, you should place a custom class on the wrapper (custom-control-right in the example below) and add some CSS that overrides the default:

div.custom-control-right {
  padding-right: 24px;
  padding-left: 0;
  margin-left: 16px;
  margin-right: 0;
}
div.custom-control-right .custom-control-label::before,
div.custom-control-right .custom-control-label::after{
  right: -1.5rem;
  left: initial;
}

<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<div style="margin:20px;">
    <div class="custom-control custom-checkbox custom-control-inline custom-control-right">
        <input type="checkbox"  id="location"     value="location" name="custom1" class="custom-control-input">
       <label class="custom-control-label" for="location"> Option 1</label>
    </div>
  
    <div class="custom-control custom-checkbox custom-control-inline custom-control-right">
         <input type="checkbox"  id="location2"  value="location2" name="custom2" class="custom-control-input">
        <label class="custom-control-label" for="location2"> Option 2</label>
   </div>
</div>

Note: you can replace div.custom-control-right selector with .custom-control-right, if this code is parsed after you load Bootstrap css. However, on SO, the linked resources are loaded after the code in CSS panel and I had to overqualify the selector in order for it to work.

Answer 3

Try it: Fiddle

<div style="margin:20px;">
  <div class="custom-control custom-checkbox custom-control-inline">
    <input type="checkbox" id="location" value="location" name="custom1" class="custom-control-input">
    <label class="custom-control-label" for="location"> Option 1</label>
  </div>

  <div class="custom-control custom-checkbox custom-control-inline">

    <input type="checkbox" id="location2" value="location2" name="custom2" class="custom-control-input">
    <label class="custom-control-label" for="location2"> Option 2</label>
  </div>
</div>

css:

.custom-checkbox {
  padding-left: 0;
}

label.custom-control-label {
  padding-right: 1.5rem;
}

.custom-control-label::before,
.custom-control-label::after {
  right: 0;
  left: auto;
}