Radio/checkbox alignment in HTML/CSS

Question

What is the cleanest way to align properly radio buttons / checkboxes with text? The only reliable solution which I have been using so far is table based:

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Answer 1

This is a bit of a hack but this CSS seems to get it working very nicely in all browsers the same as using tables (apart from chrome)

input[type=radio] { vertical-align: middle; margin: 0; *margin-top: -2px; }
label { vertical-align: middle; }
@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
 input[type=radio] { margin-top: -2px; }
}

Make sure you use labels with your radios for it to work. i.e.

<option> <label>My Radio</label>

Answer 2

I think I have finally solved the problem. One commonly recommended solution is to use vertical-align: middle:

<input type="radio" style="vertical-align: middle"> Label

The problem, however, is that this still produces visible misalignments even though it should theoretically work. The CSS2 specification says that:

vertical-align: middle: Align the vertical midpoint of the box with the baseline of the parent box plus half the x-height of the parent.

So it should be in the perfect centre (the x-height is the height of the character x). However, the problem seems to be caused by the fact browsers commonly add some random uneven margins to radio buttons and checkboxes. One can check, for instance in Firefox using Firebug, that the default checkbox margin in Firefox is 3px 3px 0px 5px. I'm not sure where it comes from, but the other browsers seem to have similar margins as well. So to get a perfect alignment, one needs to get rid of these margins:

<input type="radio" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px;"> Label

It is still interesting to note that in the table based solution the margins are somehow eaten and everything aligns nicely.

Answer 3

input[type="radio"], input[type="checkbox"] {
    vertical-align: middle;
    margin-top: -1;
}

Answer 4

I found the best fix for this was to give the input a height that matches the label. At least this fixed my problem with inconsistencies in Firefox and IE.

input { height: 18px; margin: 0; float: left; }
label { height: 18px; float: left; }

<li>
  <input id="option1" type="radio" name="opt" />
  <label for="option1">Option 1</label>
</li>

Answer 5

@sfjedi

I've created a class and assigned the css values to it.

.radioA{
   vertical-align: middle;
}

It is working and you can check it in the below link. http://jsfiddle.net/gNVsC/ Hope it was useful.

Answer 6

The following code should work :)

Regards,

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<style type="text/css">
input[type=checkbox] {
    margin-bottom: 4px;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

label {
    vertical-align: middle;
}
</style>


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