Style checkboxes as Toggle Buttons

Question

On my website, users can post articles and tag them accordingly using some pre-set tags. These tags are in the form of checkboxes. Example below:

<input type="checkbox" name="wpuf_post_tags[]" class="new-post-tags" value="Aliens" /> Aliens
<input type="checkbox" name="wpuf_post_tags[]" class="new-post-tags" value="Ghosts" /> Ghosts
<input type="checkbox" name="wpuf_post_tags[]" class="new-post-tags" value="Monsters" /> Monsters

As you might know, the checkboxes will look something like this:

[ ] Aliens

[o] Ghosts

[ ] Monsters

I would like to do is have the checkbox being one large button with the value inside of it. And then make it have a "toggle" effect.

[ Aliens ] [ Ghosts ] [ Monsters ]

How would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

Check this out

HTML

<input id="chk_aliens" type="checkbox" name="wpuf_post_tags[]" class="vis-hidden new-post-tags" value="Aliens" />
<label for="chk_aliens">Aliens</label>

<input id="chk_ghosts" type="checkbox" name="wpuf_post_tags[]" class="vis-hidden new-post-tags" value="Ghosts" />
<label for="chk_ghosts">Ghosts</label>

<input id="chk_monsters" type="checkbox" name="wpuf_post_tags[]" class="vis-hidden new-post-tags" value="Monsters" />
<label for="chk_monsters">Monsters</label>

CSS

.vis-hidden {
    border: 0;
    clip: rect(0 0 0 0);
    height: 1px;
    margin: -1px;
    overflow: hidden;
    padding: 0;
    position: absolute;
    width: 1px;
}

label {
  margin: 10px;
  padding: 5px;
  border: 1px solid gray;
}

input:focus + label {
  border-color: blue;
}

input:checked + label {
  border-color: red;
}

input:focus:checked + label {
  border-color: green;
}

Note that the last selector may not work in older IE.