I've been looking for a good way to put a toggle switch into a design. But, when searching for a standard way to do this, all I came across are toggle switches created through a combination of HTML and CSS. See an example from w3 below:

/* The switch - the box around the slider */
.switch {
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
  width: 60px;
  height: 34px;
}

/* Hide default HTML checkbox */
.switch input {
  opacity: 0;
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
}

/* The slider */
.slider {
  position: absolute;
  cursor: pointer;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  background-color: #ccc;
  -webkit-transition: .4s;
  transition: .4s;
}

.slider:before {
  position: absolute;
  content: "";
  height: 26px;
  width: 26px;
  left: 4px;
  bottom: 4px;
  background-color: white;
  -webkit-transition: .4s;
  transition: .4s;
}

input:checked   .slider {
  background-color: #2196F3;
}

input:focus   .slider {
  box-shadow: 0 0 1px #2196F3;
}

input:checked   .slider:before {
  -webkit-transform: translateX(26px);
  -ms-transform: translateX(26px);
  transform: translateX(26px);
}

/* Rounded sliders */
.slider.round {
  border-radius: 34px;
}

.slider.round:before {
  border-radius: 50%;
}

<!-- Rounded switch -->
<label >
  <input type="checkbox">
  <span ></span>
</label>

Is this the only way of creating toggle switches in HTML5?

CodePudding user response：

A toggle switch is essentially a checkbox, with a certain type of styling.

Both are binary inputs, so having both as different HTML elements would be a bit redundant. Checkboxes were the standard long before switches came along, and adding a whole new element to HTML for a small UI difference wouldn't make much sense.

Hope that helps!