Custom radio buttons with CSS only

Do you want to customize the ugly radio buttons in your web forms . There are some plugins like icheck to do the job but when the page loading time matters you may not want to call those unwanted heavy css and javascript files.

There is a way to customize the radios buttons with only css3. it has cross browser support because thse days almost all the web browsers support it.

What it does is hiding the default radio buttons and using CSS Pseudo-elements adding some stylish buttons.

The working code is below

HTML

<div class="alert">
  <ul>
  <li>
    <input type="radio" id="f-option" name="selector">
    <label for="f-option">Pizza</label>
    
    <div class="check"></div>
  </li>
  
  <li>
    <input type="radio" id="s-option" name="selector">
    <label for="s-option">Bacon</label>
    
    <div class="check"><div class="inside"></div></div>
  </li>
  
  <li>
    <input type="radio" id="t-option" name="selector">
    <label for="t-option">Cats</label>
    
    <div class="check"><div class="inside"></div></div>
  </li>
</ul>
</div>

CSS

ul li{
  color: #AAAAAA;
  display: block;
  position: relative;
  float: left;
  width: 100%;
  height: 50px;
}

ul li input[type=radio]{
  position: absolute;
  visibility: hidden;
}

ul li label{
  display: block;
  position: relative;
  font-weight: 300;
  font-size: 1.35em;
  padding: 25px 25px 25px 80px;
  margin: 10px auto;
  height: 30px;
  z-index: 9;
  cursor: pointer;
  -webkit-transition: all 0.25s linear;
}

ul li:hover label{
    color: #dedede;
}

ul li .check{
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  border: 5px solid #AAAAAA;
  border-radius: 100%;
  height: 25px;
  width: 25px;
  top: 30px;
  left: 20px;
    z-index: 5;
    transition: border .25s linear;
    -webkit-transition: border .25s linear;
}

ul li:hover .check {
  border: 5px solid #dedede;
}

ul li .check::before {
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
    content: '';
  border-radius: 100%;
  height: 15px;
  width: 15px;
  top: 5px;
    left: 5px;
  margin: auto;
    transition: background 0.25s linear;
    -webkit-transition: background 0.25s linear;
}

input[type=radio]:checked ~ .check {
  border: 5px solid #0DFF92;
}

input[type=radio]:checked ~ .check::before{
  background: #0DFF92;
}

input[type=radio]:checked ~ label{
  color: #0DFF92;
}