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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Checkbox vs toggle
There's a constant debate on checkbox vs toggle.
Personally, as an iPhone and Mac owner, I'm still very confused every time when I see the toggle. I often ask ask myself, "The 'on' is on the left, ...
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Why is it impossible to deselect HTML "radio" inputs?
In HTML, there are currently two types of "checkbox" style controls:
Checkbox: Allows toggling on/off, multiple values can be selected
Radio: Only one value in a group may be selected, does ...
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Adding a "none of the above" option to a list of checkboxes
I am working on a series of complex life insurance forms and trying to optimize using standard conventions...
I have this nasty list of medical diseases and a mutually exclusive option, "None of the ...
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Check all / uncheck all checkboxes with regards to usability
I'm just wondering as to your thoughts on the best way of providing check/uncheck all functionality for an HTML table with multiple rows, that has a column of checkboxes.
Some possibilities:
Extra ...
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Tri-state checkbox: Which state should be selected after clicking?
There is a hierarchy of selectable items, let's say a parent and two children. All three items have checkboxes. When both children are checked, the parent's checkbox is also checked. When both ...
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Toggle button vs. check box and toggle switch
XAML for Windows 8 offers 3 controls for toggling: toggle button, check box and toggle switch.
The Windows 8 UX guidelines explain and compare the check box and the toggle switch, but make no mention ...
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Are round check boxes confusing or an accepted standard?
I was browsing dribbble.com today and came across a new post by one of the designers that I follow. He had posted a new modal form which was using rounded check boxes. I have never seen these before.
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What do you do when you have too many choices in a checkbox field set?
I have an interface for managing a user's roles in an interface for managing accounts in a web application.
The roles are basically roles in the Role-Based Access Control - (RBAC) context.
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nested checkbox behavior check/uncheck
I have a hierarchical category tree and checkboxes next to each item that allow to enable/disable the correpsonding category.
I assume it is an expected default behavior that all subategories of ...
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ux review word for select all
Is is ok to use Select/Deselect All here or better to shorten it to only select all.
Would the users know that if they uncheck the "select all" checkbox. Everything will be disselected
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Should checkbox labels be to the right or the left?
I've got some checkboxes with text values of varying lengths (from say 5 characters up to about 60) - which is the preferred layout? Value to the left and checkbox to the right, or vice versa?
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Alternatives to checkboxes and radio buttons in web-based surveys?
I've been tasked with designing a simple questionnaire design with a lot of different types of questions. I've been taking a lot of web-based surveys myself as well as testing some with users. The ...
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Radio buttons with none selected
I feel like there's an answer out there but I can't find it.
We have a situation where customers need to choose one of two options for billing their services, but we can't choose it for them.
I've ...
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Should the cursor change to pointer over radio buttons, checkboxes, their labels and selects?
I always do so because to me it feels nicer; it implies an action will happen on click. Especially for radio/checkbox labels, where the for attribute is correctly used.
This is not the default ...
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Are tri-state checkboxes too complicated?
Normal checkboxes are easy, they have a checked state, and an unchecked state. But how do you go about indicating a third state for a tri-state checkbox? Is it too difficult for the user to discover ...
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Filtering results with checkboxes
A colleague of mine and I have had a discussion about filtering with checkboxes on one of our sites.
We use a number of checkboxes to allow the user to refine a search, by selecting their areas of ...
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Checkbox label negating
When labeling Checkboxes is it bad to use "negative" or "opposite" descriptions? Should a checked Checkbox always mean "do something", or is it OK for it to mean "don't do something"?
For example:
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Multiple choice with Yes, No and 'No answer'
I am working on a Quiz Application for Multiple Choice question. Instead of normal Multiple Choice Questions with the two answers yes and no. I am working on one that allows a user to abstain to a ...
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What's the difference between a toggle switch, radio buttons and a tickbox? What's the best cases these patterns can be used?
What's the best cases these patterns can be use?
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Which is better to design a Filter?
Which is better for filter, select a single value:
Check box ( Use js to keep single selection )
Dropdown list
Radio buttons
Highlighted labels
download bmml source – Wireframes created with ...
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Best choice for three-state value?
In my application, the user can filter fields by selecting one of three possible values for each field:
True
False
Both
I currently have a drop-down box, but this requires two clicks while the ...
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An alternative to Indeterminate checkboxes?
How best to display incomplete or indeterminate state?
Microsoft UI pattern has an display icon for this - a dark box within the checkbox instead of a check. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/...
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Alternative to a columns of checkboxes in a table
Here's the scenario:
A Person has a bunch of Accounts. Accounts may (or may not) have Services attached to it depending on the type of Account. Currently there are two types of Service (indicated by ...
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ajax checkboxes vs submit button
At the office we are talking about an interface on our web application, which has ajaxified checkboxes: you click it, and the change is live. No "action" is performed other than changing data on the ...
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Using mixed radio and checkbox buttons - is there any efficiency or usability gain in the design?
I have noticed that many online forms and surveys these days are starting to use a mixture of radio and checkbox buttons for the same question, that is, for a question that gives the person a number ...
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Do users understand this hybrid checkbox/radio control? [duplicate]
I'm wondering about the perennial problem that arises when presenting multiple options, where the user can select none, one, or several options.
Using checkboxes, it's not clear whether a user
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Checkboxes - Is better to check exceptions or to uncheck exceptions?
I have a grid of ~20 checkboxes which users can utilize to select features. Typically, user might have ~15 features selected ~5 unselected for a co configuration.
Deselection of features which a user ...
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Helping users understand that two, and only two options must be selected
I have a drop down checkbox where there are 8 items to check. Two are selected by default.
I am trying to think of an intuitive way to let the user know they have to deselect the existing ones ...
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Which is the correct way to implement faceted search filtering: links vs checkboxes?
Is there a difference between implementing filtering options using links (or radio buttons), ie. you can only check one, versus using checkboxes?
For example: Youtube uses links, you can only select ...
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Is it acceptable practice to use checkboxes as radio buttons?
Can someone point me in the direction to articles regarding checkboxes and radio buttons?
I'm in a discussion with an Art Director and he is convinced it makes more sense to use checkboxes because ...
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"By posting this, you agree to our terms and conditions"
Is it okay to have a "By posting this, you agree to our terms and conditions" (i.e. like 4chan) as opposed to a "I agree to the terms and conditions" checkbox?
I read about automatic agreement to ...
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Is a circular checkbox bad UI design?
A radio button is normally presented as circular control but more recently checkboxes are also being presented with a rounded border making them look like radio buttons.
http://flatlogic.github.io/...
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Should a special slider value be implemented with a checkbox or not?
I am creating a dialog box for a GIMP plugin that exports images in the WebP format. The dialog currently looks something like this:
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq ...
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Laying out checkboxes in forms
I have some pretty large forms mostly consisting of text fields and dropdowns. However, there are also checkboxes scattered here and there. I'm trying to figure out the best way to lay them out. Here'...
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Selecting many elements from a long list
I have a scenario where my 'create user' dialog has a very long list of options, of which the user needs to select many. The project manager has suggested a 'dual list' approach: a long (scrolled) ...
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Selecting age between 6 and 18
I've got a reasonably simple requirement but can't come up with any appealing ways of presenting it to the user.
To meet the requirement, the user has to be able to choose 1 or more age groups, ...
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How to present a todo list / checklist to a user
I'm working on a website where each user have to fill some forms to add some data which must be validated by some administrators. I won't enter into details in order to find a general solution which ...
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Searching for items that include/exclude an attribute
I have a list of items. These items have 1 or more colors (black, red, green or any combination of the three).
The user wants to filter the item on color. For example, show only the items that:
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Checkboxes or Radio buttons: Only one or zero choices
I'm building a quiz-type web application in which the user must answer a series of multiple-choice questions. I need to decide whether to use radio buttons or checkboxes.
I'm familiar with the ...
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Multiple or Single Checkbox for ToDo List?
Would you suggest for a To-Do List section of a project management app I am working on have multiple checkboxes?
Or keep things simple and "common" using single checkbox?
I think that multiple ...
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Single checkbox or yes/no radio button
For the form items below, which interface control is the best option? A single checkbox or yes/no radio button?
Read EWLS advice letter?
Checked images / report on PACS / CRIS?
Pacemaker?
Unable to ...
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Should checkbox label be styled like an anchor link?
I've struggled to find any sort of argument that supports either of my theories so i wanted to see what the UX community at large thinks about this.
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I have an online shop. When you view a ...
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Alternative to checkbox matrix
I'm a developer designing a portion of a UI the allows the user to select certain configuration options.
There are 4 different sections that can be configured.
Select countries, and then languages ...
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Reordering Checkbox List on selection
I have a requirement for a user story I am working on requesting that on checking a check box in a check box list, the selected items appear at the top of the list.
My gut is telling me this is ...
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Is the indeterminate checkbox state a Microsoft UI pattern only?
A quick look through online search results show that the indeterminate checkbox state does not seem to be a very common UI interaction, yet Microsoft has persistently stuck with it and are probably ...
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Should clicking a checkbox in an indeterminate state check it or clear it? Why? [duplicate]
Below I have provided an example of a checkbox group including a parent checkbox in an indeterminate state. Some of the child nodes in the Tall Things tree are selected and some are not, therefore ...
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Checkbox or Radio, specific use case
I have a very specific use case and it has led me to question the checkbox vs radio button convention...
Radio buttons are used when there is a list of two or more options that are mutually exclusive ...
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Shortcut to go from a list of selected checkboxes in a filter to only one selected item
The problem
The goal is to offer the user a filter control which by default includes all data
But the user might typically want to only show data from a certain continent or a certain subset. ...
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Advice on alternatives to using dozens of check boxes in an interface
I wanted to get some UI design advice. I am not sure this is the proper forum to ask this question so here goes.
My situation is I have a table that has 51 bit values to hold the values of statutes. ...
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Popup for a check box
Say there's a form (XAML) with a checkbox on it. If the check box is checked the user should be warned about something. The message to the user is basically, if you enable this then be aware that such ...
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