I want my checkboxes's label to highlight when on and off (like a IRL switch) and I'm not figuring out how to reach all of them without having to make a listener for each of them (I belive there must be some way)
Checkboxes be like:
<label id="labeltest"><input id="checkboxtest" type="checkbox" name="diet" value="Egg" hidden/>Egg</label>
JS be like:
var labeltest = document.getElementById("labeltest")
labeltest.addEventListener("click", function () {
if (this.firstChild.checked) {
this.classList.remove("unchecked")
this.classList.add("checked")
} else if (this.firstChild.checked === false) {
this.classList.remove("checked")
this.classList.add("unchecked")
}
});
I've tried with class instead of ID but didn't work
Also tried something like this with classes to make labeltest an array:
labeltest.forEach(element => {
element.addEventListener("click", function () {
(FUNCTION HERE)
});
But didn't work either
You don't need any JavaScript to accomplish this.
If you reorder your input and labels like this:
<input id="diet-egg" type="checkbox" name="diet" value="Egg" hidden/>
<label for="diet-egg">Egg</label>
Important: Be sure that the for attribute value matches the id of the input the label is connected to. This enables checking and unchecking the checkbox by clicking the <label> element.
Then you can use the adjacent sibling selector + to define the styles of the label whenever the input is checked and unchecked.
input + label {
/* unchecked label styles */
}
input:checked + label {
/* checked label styles */
}