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How to create a custom Toggle Switch using CSS

Karan Developer on July 31, 2021

Let's create a simple customized toggle switch using CSS. Initially when I was trying to create this, I founded it very confusing because many deve...
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cs-mshah

I have seen many toggle switches. But can you tell me how to design one which can resize easily. like it should have a size similar to the text element before it. If I change the pixels, things start falling apart. Can you write the css in terms of percentage or something and give an example on how to put it next to different sized texts. This would really be very helpful.

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Jan • Edited

That's exactly what i thought and besides from that, none of those switches handles the actual label with text. So i played around and came up with this one:

codepen.io/nghh/pen/abWKXEK

You just need to edit these variables:

    /* overall size */
    --size: 1.5em;

    /* Finetune switch */
    --height: 2em;
    --width: 4em;
    --border: 0.2em;
    --font-size: 1em;
    --switch-color-checked: darkcyan;
    --switch-color-unchecked: lightgrey;
    --dot-color-checked: white;
    --dot-color-unchecked: white;
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Cheers

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cs-mshah

yes! this is much better.

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Koen Ahn

You could use EM units instead of PX! :) Then change the container's font-size to adapt the switch's size.

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jlop

I don't know why but my label doesnt appear , and after trying my self i copied the code and it still not working ,i dont know why

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Karan Developer

Please share me your Codepen Pen link, I'll definitely look into it !

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jlop

codepen.io/jlopy/pen/KKmeYBK

The css of the label is a copy paste of yours , I only did the firsts steps because its not working , thank you for be helpful

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Karan Developer • Edited

First of all, Thankyou for encountering this problem!

Reason
The main difference between your and my code is of Display property. Default property is display:inline;

But I've used flexbox to make my button center to body, In this case body is flex-container and my <label> is flex-item and default display property of flex-items are display:block. And in your case <label> is display: inline;

Solution
Just add display:block in <label>

# Reference code is given below
label {
    display: block;  /* Add this line */
    width: 500px;
    height: 150px;
    background-color: #477a85;
    border-radius: 100px;
    position: relative;
    cursor: pointer;
    transition: 0.5s;
    box-shadow: 0 0 20px #477a8550;
  }
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I've also updated my code, Please let me know if you still having any problem.

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jlop

My problem is solved , I didn't think that this was the problem , thank you so much

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Clément Gaudinière

Using labels for the switch is very clever and avoids using javascript. Thanks for your tutorial. + 1

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codepen.io/MaqboolS/pen/qBrwOoG here is something I made but it is not like the toggle switch with path instead its like dark mode/ light mode switch. Hope u all find it usefull

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Stanley J Nadar

This is really good but you can also achieve the same with just input element without the label.

Overall, good technique 👍

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Eric Bishard

You should remix this tortorial or post a codepen, I'd love to see it. I also have a few variations on this same type of toggle but I have it setup as a react component.

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Stanley J Nadar

Here is mine (multi-version & animation in progress): codepen.io/istealersn/pen/abWKJbN

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khidersaloum

It is a nice post to learn

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Matyi Csorba

Nice post with pure css!
I made a similar pen about a year ago with background transition
codepen.io/Tyutyesz/pen/VwvNbbZ

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Abhishek Tomar

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denis billo

Thank you very much for this CSS!
It works very well for an input...
What if there are 5 inputs in the form?

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denis billo

Thank you very much for this CSS!
It works very well for one input, but not with several...
What if there are 5 inputs in the form?