Category: checkboxes

Radios and Checkboxes on GOV.UK

An interesting journey of form UX, documented by Tim Paul. It started with browser defaults. It’s unclear why that wasn’t working. But interestingly, an alteration that included giant label-based click areas in color-offset boxes didn’t help. What actually helped was bigger (and custom) radios and che...

Editorial: Is JavaScript Always the Best Solution?

Lately, there has been a lot of discussion surrounding the role of JavaScript in modern web pages and web apps. It all seems to have kicked off with an amusing (but not entirely untrue) article entitled How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 in which the author expresses his concern at the fragmented state of the Jav...

Quick Tip: Persist Checkbox Checked State after Page Reload

This quick tip describes how to have your browser remember the state of checkboxes once a page has been refreshed or a user navigates away from your site to come back at a later date. [author_more] It might be useful to Persist Checkbox Checked State if, for example, you use checkboxes to allow your users to set site-s...