How to make a radio button look like a toggle button

Question

I want a group of radio buttons to look like a group of toggle buttons (but still function like radio buttons). It\'s not necessary that they look exactly like toggle button

Answer 1

PURE CSS AND HTML (as asked) with ANIMATIONS!

Example Image (you can run the code below):

After looking for something really clean and straight forward, I ended up building this with ONE simple change from another code that was built only thinking on checkboxes, so I tryed the funcionality for RADIOS and it worked too(!).

The CSS (SCSS) is fully from @mallendeo (as established on the JS credits), what I did was simply change the type of the input to RADIO, and gave the same name to all the radio switches.... and VOILA!! They deactivate automatically one to the other!!

Very clean, and as you asked it's only CSS and HTML!!

It is exactly what I was looking for since 3 days after trying and editing more than a dozen of options (which mostly requiered jQuery, or didn't allow labels, or even wheren't really compatible with current browsers). This one's got it all!

I'm obligated to include the code in here to allow you to see a working example, so:

/** Toggle buttons
 * @mallendeo
 * forked @davidtaubmann
 * from https://codepen.io/mallendeo/pen/eLIiG
 */

html, body {
  display: -webkit-box;
  display: -webkit-flex;
  display: -ms-flexbox;
  display: flex;
  min-height: 100%;
  -webkit-box-pack: center;
  -webkit-justify-content: center;
      -ms-flex-pack: center;
          justify-content: center;
  -webkit-box-align: center;
  -webkit-align-items: center;
      -ms-flex-align: center;
          align-items: center;
  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
  -webkit-box-direction: normal;
  -webkit-flex-direction: column;
      -ms-flex-direction: column;
          flex-direction: column;
  font-family: sans-serif;
}

ul, li {
  list-style: none;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

.tg-list {
  text-align: center;
  display: -webkit-box;
  display: -webkit-flex;
  display: -ms-flexbox;
  display: flex;
  -webkit-box-align: center;
  -webkit-align-items: center;
      -ms-flex-align: center;
          align-items: center;
}

.tg-list-item {
  margin: 0 10px;;
}

h2 {
  color: #777;
}

h4 {
  color: #999;
}

.tgl {
  display: none;
}
.tgl, .tgl:after, .tgl:before, .tgl *, .tgl *:after, .tgl *:before, .tgl + .tgl-btn {
  box-sizing: border-box;
}
.tgl::-moz-selection, .tgl:after::-moz-selection, .tgl:before::-moz-selection, .tgl *::-moz-selection, .tgl *:after::-moz-selection, .tgl *:before::-moz-selection, .tgl + .tgl-btn::-moz-selection {
  background: none;
}
.tgl::selection, .tgl:after::selection, .tgl:before::selection, .tgl *::selection, .tgl *:after::selection, .tgl *:before::selection, .tgl + .tgl-btn::selection {
  background: none;
}
.tgl + .tgl-btn {
  outline: 0;
  display: block;
  width: 4em;
  height: 2em;
  position: relative;
  cursor: pointer;
  -webkit-user-select: none;
     -moz-user-select: none;
      -ms-user-select: none;
          user-select: none;
}
.tgl + .tgl-btn:after, .tgl + .tgl-btn:before {
  position: relative;
  display: block;
  content: "";
  width: 50%;
  height: 100%;
}
.tgl + .tgl-btn:after {
  left: 0;
}
.tgl + .tgl-btn:before {
  display: none;
}
.tgl:checked + .tgl-btn:after {
  left: 50%;
}

.tgl-light + .tgl-btn {
  background: #f0f0f0;
  border-radius: 2em;
  padding: 2px;
  -webkit-transition: all .4s ease;
  transition: all .4s ease;
}
.tgl-light + .tgl-btn:after {
  border-radius: 50%;
  background: #fff;
  -webkit-transition: all .2s ease;
  transition: all .2s ease;
}
.tgl-light:checked + .tgl-btn {
  background: #9FD6AE;
}

.tgl-ios + .tgl-btn {
  background: #fbfbfb;
  border-radius: 2em;
  padding: 2px;
  -webkit-transition: all .4s ease;
  transition: all .4s ease;
  border: 1px solid #e8eae9;
}
.tgl-ios + .tgl-btn:after {
  border-radius: 2em;
  background: #fbfbfb;
  -webkit-transition: left 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.175, 0.885, 0.32, 1.275), padding 0.3s ease, margin 0.3s ease;
  transition: left 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.175, 0.885, 0.32, 1.275), padding 0.3s ease, margin 0.3s ease;
  box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1), 0 4px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08);
}
.tgl-ios + .tgl-btn:hover:after {
  will-change: padding;
}
.tgl-ios + .tgl-btn:active {
  box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2em #e8eae9;
}
.tgl-ios + .tgl-btn:active:after {
  padding-right: .8em;
}
.tgl-ios:checked + .tgl-btn {
  background: #86d993;
}
.tgl-ios:checked + .tgl-btn:active {
  box-shadow: none;
}
.tgl-ios:checked + .tgl-btn:active:after {
  margin-left: -.8em;
}

.tgl-skewed + .tgl-btn {
  overflow: hidden;
  -webkit-transform: skew(-10deg);
          transform: skew(-10deg);
  -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
          backface-visibility: hidden;
  -webkit-transition: all .2s ease;
  transition: all .2s ease;
  font-family: sans-serif;
  background: #888;
}
.tgl-skewed + .tgl-btn:after, .tgl-skewed + .tgl-btn:before {
  -webkit-transform: skew(10deg);
          transform: skew(10deg);
  display: inline-block;
  -webkit-transition: all .2s ease;
  transition: all .2s ease;
  width: 100%;
  text-align: center;
  position: absolute;
  line-height: 2em;
  font-weight: bold;
  color: #fff;
  text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
}
.tgl-skewed + .tgl-btn:after {
  left: 100%;
  content: attr(data-tg-on);
}
.tgl-skewed + .tgl-btn:before {
  left: 0;
  content: attr(data-tg-off);
}
.tgl-skewed + .tgl-btn:active {
  background: #888;
}
.tgl-skewed + .tgl-btn:active:before {
  left: -10%;
}
.tgl-skewed:checked + .tgl-btn {
  background: #86d993;
}
.tgl-skewed:checked + .tgl-btn:before {
  left: -100%;
}
.tgl-skewed:checked + .tgl-btn:after {
  left: 0;
}
.tgl-skewed:checked + .tgl-btn:active:after {
  left: 10%;
}

.tgl-flat + .tgl-btn {
  padding: 2px;
  -webkit-transition: all .2s ease;
  transition: all .2s ease;
  background: #fff;
  border: 4px solid #f2f2f2;
  border-radius: 2em;
}
.tgl-flat + .tgl-btn:after {
  -webkit-transition: all .2s ease;
  transition: all .2s ease;
  background: #f2f2f2;
  content: "";
  border-radius: 1em;
}
.tgl-flat:checked + .tgl-btn {
  border: 4px solid #7FC6A6;
}
.tgl-flat:checked + .tgl-btn:after {
  left: 50%;
  background: #7FC6A6;
}

.tgl-flip + .tgl-btn {
  padding: 2px;
  -webkit-transition: all .2s ease;
  transition: all .2s ease;
  font-family: sans-serif;
  -webkit-perspective: 100px;
          perspective: 100px;
}
.tgl-flip + .tgl-btn:after, .tgl-flip + .tgl-btn:before {
  display: inline-block;
  -webkit-transition: all .4s ease;
  transition: all .4s ease;
  width: 100%;
  text-align: center;
  position: absolute;
  line-height: 2em;
  font-weight: bold;
  color: #fff;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
          backface-visibility: hidden;
  border-radius: 4px;
}
.tgl-flip + .tgl-btn:after {
  content: attr(data-tg-on);
  background: #02C66F;
  -webkit-transform: rotateY(-180deg);
          transform: rotateY(-180deg);
}
.tgl-flip + .tgl-btn:before {
  background: #FF3A19;
  content: attr(data-tg-off);
}
.tgl-flip + .tgl-btn:active:before {
  -webkit-transform: rotateY(-20deg);
          transform: rotateY(-20deg);
}
.tgl-flip:checked + .tgl-btn:before {
  -webkit-transform: rotateY(180deg);
          transform: rotateY(180deg);
}
.tgl-flip:checked + .tgl-btn:after {
  -webkit-transform: rotateY(0);
          transform: rotateY(0);
  left: 0;
  background: #7FC6A6;
}
.tgl-flip:checked + .tgl-btn:active:after {
  -webkit-transform: rotateY(20deg);
          transform: rotateY(20deg);
}

Toggle 'em

  

    
Radios:
  
  

    
      
Light
    
    
    
    
      
Light
    
  
  

    
      
iOS 7 (Disabled)
    
    
    
    
      
iOS 7 (Disabled)
    
  
  

    
      
Skewed
    
    
    
    
      
Skewed
    
  
  

    
      
Flat
    
    
    
    
      
Flat
    
  
  

    
      
Flip
    
    
    
    
      
Flip
    
  


  

    
Checkboxes:
  
  

    
      
Light
    
    
    
    
      
Light
    
  
  

    
      
iOS 7
    
    
    
    
      
iOS 7
    
  
  

    
      
Skewed
    
    
    
    
      
Skewed
    
  
  

    
      
Flat
    
    
    
    
      
Flat
    
  
  

    
      
Flip
    
    
    
    
      
Flip
    
  

If you run the snippet, you'll see I leave the iOS radio checked and disabled, so you can watch how it is also affected when activating another one. I also included 2 labels for each radio, one before and one after. The copy of the original code to show the working checkboxes in the same window is also included.