Twitter Bootstrap radio/checkbox - how to put glyphicon

Question

Using TB, is it possible to style the radio or checkbox so that it shows a glyphicon instead of the default style for radio or checkbox? I want to use a glyphicon glyphicon-star to indicate unchecked, then glyphicon glyphicon-star-empty to indicate checked.

Answer 1

Just for those, having the same problem and came from Google (I didn't find any convenient answer).

I tinkered something like this and tested it in the current Chrome, Firefox and IE. With this method, you also can use everything else you want as checkbox. Just give the classes "checked" and "unchecked".

For every checkbox do this:

<input id="checkbox1" class="icon-checkbox" type="checkbox" />
<label for="checkbox1">
  <span class='glyphicon glyphicon-unchecked unchecked'></span>
  <span class='glyphicon glyphicon-check checked'></span>
  Checkbox 1
</label>

And add to your CSS:

input[type='checkbox'].icon-checkbox{display:none}
input[type='checkbox'].icon-checkbox+label .unchecked{display:inline}
input[type='checkbox'].icon-checkbox+label .checked{display:none}
input[type='checkbox']:checked.icon-checkbox{display:none}
input[type='checkbox']:checked.icon-checkbox+label .unchecked{display:none}
input[type='checkbox']:checked.icon-checkbox+label .checked{display:inline}

Answer 2

Without javascript you could modify the style... Its kind of a hack in my opinion but it was interesting because I realized that boostrap uses an icon font #newb.

HTML

<input type="checkbox" class="glyphicon glyphicon-star-empty" >

CSS

.glyphicon:before {
     visibility: visible;
}
.glyphicon.glyphicon-star-empty:checked:before {
    content: "\e006";
}
input[type=checkbox].glyphicon{
     visibility: hidden;        
}

Try it out HERE

Answer 3

On the official website, the javascript section has examples of styling groups of checkboxes and radio buttons as buttons groups. It's under the buttons section here.

Instead of having text inside the button that reads "Option 1", you would place your glyphicon instead. If you wanted only one checkbox, I suppose you could eliminate the button group and just go with a single button.

To remove the button appearance and only show your icon, use the "btn-link" class.

I haven't tried this myself, but I see no reason for it to not work.