Styling Radio Inputs

So I'm having major trouble with styling radio buttons and as such I've managed to get it working perfectly in Chrome, a tiny bit in Firefox and not at all in IE. This is the expec

Solution 1:

As noted in the comments, the :after and :before pseudo elements are inserted inside of the element that they are applied on. :after and :before shouldn't work with inputs as the <input> element cannot have children :(

The solution is to apply the images and :after pseudo element to the radio inputs label. From a semantics point of view it's also nice to give the label a value.

• The radio inputs are hidden with display: none and they are selected via their corresponding label attached with the matching for and id attributes.

• input + label targets only the label element directly after each input.

• input + label:after and input:checked + label:after provide the selected opaque overlay and transition animation

Have an example!

HTML

<div id="welcome-gender"> 
    <input class="male" name="gender"type="radio" value="male"id="male-one">
    <label for="male-one">Male One</label>          

    <input class="female" name="gender"type="radio" value="female"id="female-one">
    <label for="female-one">Female One</label>
</div>

CSS

input[type="radio"]{
    display: none;
}
label {
    position: relative;
    width: 170px;
    height: 300px;
    display: inline-block;
    color: white;
    font-size: 0;
    border-radius: 4px;
}
.male + label {
    background: url(http://socialavatarnetworkscript.com/media/img/male_avatar.png);    
}
.female + label {
    background: url(http://socialavatarnetworkscript.com/media/img/female_avatar.png)
}

input + label:after {
    background: #FFF;
    content: '';    
}
input:checked + label:after {
    background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
    position: absolute;
    width: 170px;
    height: 300px;
    display: block;
    content: 'SELECTED';
    border-radius: 4px;
    color: white;
    font-family: titillium, sans-serif;
    font-weight: 500;
    font-size: 22px;
    text-align: center;
    line-height: 300px;
    -webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease;
    -moz-transition: all 0.2s ease;
    -ms-transition: all 0.2s ease;
    -o-transition: all 0.2s ease;
    transition: all 0.2s ease;
}