Questions tagged [checkboxes]
widgets that allow a single item to be selected or not. Usually shown by a square box, with a check mark in it if selected.
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Progressive Disclosure: Checkboxes vs Switches
I'm designing a web app that has forms where the user can turn features on and off with switches. When certain features are turned on, the form displays additional fields/controls that provide ...
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Should checkbox label with passive adjective include word "is"?
My use case is that I have a checkbox that relates to object (card) and visually it is on that card. My question is: Is it better to form a label for the checkbox like "Hidden" or like "...
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How to indicate an unfinished task with a check box or similar without implying you can check it off yourself?
I have an onboarding checklist, where the user has to complete a number of tasks. The most natural visual seems to be to use a list with an empty check box for uncompleted tasks, with checks added for ...
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Semicheck or Indeterminate Checkbox Behaviour
We are implementing a semicheckbox in a filter group, but, We don't know which is the standard behaviour after clicking the mother filter.
Should we uncheck or check the children?
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Recommended best practice for add/remove from a list during onboarding
Trying to understand what the best practices are for setup/onboarding use case like this. We're asking the user to customize their feed of newsletters in this instance; user can remove item from those ...
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Checkbox alternative?
I have a problem to design a form. I know that :
Radio buttons are used when there is a list of two or more options that are mutually exclusive and the user must select exactly one choice. In other ...
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How to make users choose at least one option in a list but allow additional selections
We know that radio button groups are used to limit user input to just one selection in a list of items, and that checkboxes are used to let users select from 0 to a set number of options from a list ...
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One checkbox or two radio buttons? Is there a case where both are acceptable?
I read an interesting article talking about the philosophy behind the use of checkboxes versus radio buttons. Of course, in most cases you would argue that the decision is pretty obvious because radio ...
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Pre-selected checkbox to subscribe newsletter on sign-up
It's 2020 and I wonder: is it fine to have under the Sign-Up form on a website a pre-selected checkbox so the user subscribes to the newsletter to receive updates?
The thing is:
Newsletters still ...
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How to decide which state is on and which is off in a checkbox
There's a program that draws various types of horizontal lines that anchor to other horizontal objects that are usually a little bit tilted.
Some of the lines, by default, are completely horizontal, ...
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Submit button placement on a form with long columns
This question is related to the Sticky submit button at the top and bottom of the form?, and Submit button on top of the long form but I consider has other nuances.
I have a form that is made only ...
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Drop-down Form and Check Box Combined—Bad Practice?
I am working on a form wireframe, and getting stuck on this one part.
The user can either pick out an extracurricular involved, or choose "none", if not relevant. Having both a drop down and ...
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Checkbox while applying Filters
We are creating custom forms. The user can choose any type of field that he wants to. It can be a checkbox, dropdown, text, paragraph, etc. Customers can fill these application forms and the admin can ...
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Are toggle buttons a good alternative for checkboxes?
In which situation would it be better to use one or the other?
For example:
Vs:
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Autoselect lower options - effective design patterns
I have series of options that I currently render as checkboxes. However, the options themselves "stack" in the sense that selecting one, should auto-select all the options below it.
ex. If we have ...
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Multi-select checkbox (or radio buttons) error styling on validation?
Are there any common pattern for styling checkboxes where at least one option needs to be selected?
E.g. it's pretty common for text fields to have border and error message below:
But for checkbox, ...
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What is the most accurate opposite of "all selected"?
This post addressed the menu action which most closely opposed "select all," but I am looking for the filter criteria that most accurately represents "none selected," or the opposite of "all selected."...
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How to indicate the ternary options for turning a feature on, turning it off, or leaving it as it was?
There is a remotely operated device / toy / drone, which has a number of "functions": various lights, sound effects and so on. There is a remote control with a number of physical buttons. ...
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How should overriding a checkbox field be displayed?
Within our software we need the ability to override fields. Our standard is the following:
Original field must be read-only with an "Override" checkbox next to it
When checking checking "Override" a ...
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What's the best control to toggle between three states?
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I have a list of statements that make up a definition. In this case it's for healthcare so its attributes about a person. Currently, we have a checkbox to allow someone with the knowledge ...
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Best way to display frequency
Do you guys know any other way to represent a list of items that have their own frequency options (Weekly, Monthly, Daily) that you can choose from.
I was thinking maybe creating like a table and ...
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Using Select All with button checkboxes
I like the usability enhancement that button checkboxes provide -- nice big click targets, plus we can add a little sliver of color that's used elsewhere in our application to impart a status ...
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How to show list have mixed rows that can be deleted while some rows that cannot be deleted?
Hope you enjoying WFM. I had a query, we are showing a list of both external and internal users. While internal users are federated and cannot be deleted. Only external users can be deleted. We have ...
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Is there a good way to communicate choose at least one?
I am wondering if there are any known good ways to concisely convey to users that they must must choose at least one option.
Check boxes convey that the user can select 0 or more items.
Radio buttons ...
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Clearly differentiating between radio buttons and checkboxes in funnel
As a complete UX beginner, I am having trouble differentiating pages containing 1-choice-only radio buttons and multiple-choices-possible checkboxes. I feel like there isn't enough to clearly ...
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Best UI pattern to allow the user to assign 1 level nested items to two groups
My issue is something similar to this one - Best UI pattern for letting a user assign items to groups
I am looking for a good UI design for mapping items between 2 groups (only one-to-one mapping). ...
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Initial state of checkboxes for basic list filtering
I'm developing a web application which features a list of items. The list can be filtered by type, and the user can choose to view one or more types at once. Let's say the types are Red, Green, Blue, ...
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Show/Hide Select All Tree Checkboxes
We are using a 3-level nav tree (Sport-Country-Competition) with nodes being selected only on the third level.
Upon running usability tests, we identified that the absence of a "select all" option ...
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Which option seems the clearest when setting up an event [closed]
I asked this on a preference test, the results were very close, too close to call in fact.
You're setting up an event on an app that let's you choose whether your guests can reply or buy tickets, ...
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Group Checkboxes Select All / None Design's best practices
What would be more inline with best practices for the select all / select none option on group checkboxes?
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Input a lot of data with select vs checkbox
I want to input some sets of data. Let's say it's like an assignment for a member on a team in some task. I want to apply several members in the task but how is the best experience to input these ...
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Better layout of many checkboxes with help text
I have a page for configuring access rights in a website. There are a number of checkboxes in the form. Each of these checkbox have a help text hover tooltip that provides a more detailed explanation ...
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iOS list with checkboxes and radio buttons alternative
I have a question regarding the default component for checkboxes and radio buttons in iOS.
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In this flow, the user will have to create a two period charging recurrence (for a service), ...
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Is there any reason not to change the style of web radio buttons and check boxes?
It's still very difficult to change the visual look of HTML radio buttons and checkboxes using CSS.
For example, changing the check box's border-color does nothing on major browsers.
Is there a UX ...
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Avoid toggle switch on any page with save button?
I'm currently working on a tool which more or less requires a submit/save button on every page. This is due to avoid any immediate effect on the end user who consumes the content.
Sometimes, it feels ...
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Using accordion lists with radio buttons
I am designing a UI for a popup that would allow the user to share a post with one class at a time and select which class. They should also be able to drill into each class and select all or certain ...
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Can one filter be always selected by default?
I am not sure if it is good user experience to have one filter always pre-selected by default. Can't use a toggle, because of the consistency issues with other pages. But I would like to keep all ...
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To align radio buttons in columns or not
I am building a form with two settings that have two choices each. The two settings are completely independent; the choice for one setting is unrelated to the choice in the other. The design calls for ...
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Dependent checkboxes behaviour
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In a form, there are 2 main sections - Boosters and Filter.
If any Booster is checked, the Filter section cannot be checked and if filter is checked, no boosters can be checked. The ...
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Where should dependencies show for grouped checkboxes? After the selection or after the entire group?
I am looking to set a system wide standard for the design of dependencies for grouped checkboxes. Are there any best practices for doing it one way over the other?
In my examples the first 3 ...
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Multiple options vs single option UI
On the dashboard we are building we got 2 sets of options users can pick:
Multiple options (checkboxes)
and single options (radio buttons behavior)
while the look of the components is similar, ...
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A checkbox that can interact / display 4 states with nested child elements
I have read discussion about tri-state checkboxes and even those are controversial - we have an even more complex problem with our software. We need 4 options and can't figure out best way to do this ...
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How I could arrange these better? [closed]
I was wondering how I could arrange these better? Currently I have sections 1-3 and when you select one or multiple it give you new row of check boxes. I think this is quick way to solve problem but ...
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Accessibility Guidelines for saving changes to boolean controls in a web app
We currently have some settings pages in a web app where there is a list of controls with checkboxes, so you can enable/disable certain features. We also have a save option below these that is ...
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What is best practice for large amounts of options in an HTML form?
I inherited an old web app, which includes an HTML form. This form has a large list of checkboxes for a yes/no on selecting counties to receive updates about.
Obviously this is not best practice, ...
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Which sentence to use for save my name and email checkbox?
Which sentence would be more clear and correct:
“Save my name and email for my next comments”,
“Save my name and email for my future comments”,
“Save my name and email”,
“Save entered data for my ...
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What is better: yes / no radio, or simple checkbox?
In a very big form on my company's website, there's this tendency to use Yes / No radio buttons combination.
I can think of one argument of not using it, but it is not UX related: we need to ...
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Why are there two checkboxes for 1 state selection?
Those permissions could be handled only with one checkbox. Checked - allowed, unchecked - Full Control denied, for example.
Why two checkboxes, not one? Also why not radio buttons?
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How to handle check-able tree-view nodes that act as both a group and an item
I need to create a tree-view which allows users to select nodes (using a checkbox). The tree-view contains two types of node, "group" and "item". A "group" node can contain both "group" and "item" ...
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Orientation of checkboxes and their labels in a form
I have a form that has a combination of text fields, checkboxes, drop downs etc.
Generally, UX fundamentals dictate we do this.
This works well when text/drop down fields outnumber checkboxes
But, ...
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