Questions tagged [radio-buttons]
A togglable button where one or more options is available but only one option of a group may be selected at a time.
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Radio Buttons Direction [closed]
I've seen radio buttons sometimes positioned vertically and sometimes horizontally. Which direction if any is considered superior UX? Are there factors that determine when to use one vs the other?
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What is the consensus about using radio buttons to switch views as opposed to a tab?
I found that by using radio buttons to switch views, the views will be positioned under the last radio button which seems to be a pretty poor grouping of information.
Are there any references when it ...
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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.
[Context]
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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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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Modern approach to radio buttons
I am working on updating the UI/UX of a 20-year-old application and I seem to be stuck at this particular use case.
On clicking on the New button, the system asks the user to choose one of two ...
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What is the best native iOS solution for a Radio Button with just two options?
The challenge I'm faced with is that I have a horizontally scrolling series of cards that have two common questions for each item, say, Did you perform activity x? and Did you perform activity y?, and ...
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Editable Radio Buttons (UX)
I need a way to select a date range and edit the date range. Also when a date range is selected it will show other dependent information.
My plan was to use radio buttons and whichever date range ...
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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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Radio Buttons When There's Only One Selection
I am designing for a e-commerce website that sells eTextbooks.
I am trying to figure out if we need to have a default select state for products that have only one option available versus multiple ...
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Placement of More Information/Help Icon button for Radio Buttons
Throughout our system we are going to standardize when and how more information/help is used on specific input fields.
In general the standard will be to have the icon/button follow the field like so:...
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Why do Radio Buttons not fill the entire outer circle?
My question is simple:
Why do most radio buttons not fill their entire outer circle?
Example of standard radio button:
(Unusual) Example of an entirely filled radio button:
Is this for some ...
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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 would you use 2 alternate layout buttons instead of 1, when only one can be selected at once
I was looking at the Spotify desktop app and noticed they use two buttons for displaying an artists albums in either a Grid layout or a List layout
See below:
If only one layout can be selected at ...
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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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Usage of switch box, checkbox or radio button for a visibility flag
Scenario
I have a visibility flag against document attached to a student profile. Administrator is the persona of Student profile. Administrator manages student profile and in the student profile we ...
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Relative radio (or tab) group with sub-inputs
I have a radio group and each value has sub-inputs, for example:
User chooses "Cat" and gets cat-related sub-inputs, there can be any number of sub-inputs.
But the issue with this layout is that "...
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How to properly communicate admission form on website?
We are struggling with a returning issue for a webpage I am designing. I work on a university’s admissions portal for upcoming students. It is difficult to explain the exact criteria for why students ...
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Radio buttons vs button groups
I'm interested in what people know about UX regarding horizontal button groups and radio buttons. There seems to be a wealth of stats around when and where to use radio buttons as opposed to select/...
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Most user friendly way to present exclusive archetypes with nested configuration options
I'm currently implementing a UI for a configuration application. The typical user would be an employee changing the configuration parameters of some client software (like theme, available features to ...
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Checkboxes and Radios styled as buttons - need differentiation between them?
I am using Bootstrap's button groups to present checkboxes and radio buttons in the form of a button group. You can see an example of this functionality here: https://ng-bootstrap.github.io/#/...
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Most user friendly way to represent radio button with sub options
I'm working on a settings section where the user needs to pick a radio button (or a segmented control) and each option generates a set of multiple options that can be selected in any combination. Lets ...
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Radio button which includes a text field. Should I add a label?
I'm currently adding a new section to a form which consists of two radio buttons, however, I'm struggling to decide if I should include a label for the sake of clarity. Above both of the radio buttons ...
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User selection for min bedrooms and max bedrooms - radio buttons?
I have a form that the user fills out. In this form the user chooses the bedrooms and bathrooms.
If I use radio buttons(as in the screen shot), I will need to code out logic to where the max radio ...
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How to Deselect Radio Chips?
I have a number of statuses from which a user can select only one status. I tried this new control which is sort of an alternative to radio to buttons where user can select their desired status by ...
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Radio buttons on mobile?
I'm dealing with a case where it is absolutely mandatory that a user answers "yes" or "no". For instance, a question like "Were the police called?" needs a solidified response. An easy way to do this ...
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Is it okay to disable a radio button in a group of 2?
I have an option menu where one of the options is a simple group of 2 radio buttons:
Now in certain conditions, the 2nd option is not available, but i was wondering if it's okay to simply disable a ...
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form: default radio options and branching
This is a form filled out by an agent on behalf of a client. Agent is trained, but we still want to make it accurate and fast.
Question 14:
Is this a Not-For-Profit Business?
3 options (radio ...
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Deselecting an optional radio button in a form that mixes radio buttons and checkboxes
The issue
I'm working on a form which currently has three radio buttons. Originally, we chose radio buttons as we only wanted a user to be able to select one option.
o Option 1 (Default selection)
o ...
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How to present an optional binary choice without a preset value?
How would you go about approaching a form where the user should pick one of the binary choices (yes/no) in the UI, but it should also not be enforced to block advancement within the flow.
So ...
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What should be the color of ON state so that user doesn't switch it off?
I am working on one plugin for the Outlook. This plugin is for email sharing. When user tries to compose email a notification butter bar will come up in compose window and will say that particular ...
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Set all radio buttons at once - use regular buttons or radio buttons?
On this form, the acceptance criteria is to have a convenience all select for a choice. For example, the user selects no and all the radio buttons would select to no.
However, if a user selects ...
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Depending radio buttons
I have a complex form with a lot of elements. One element section cares about the visibility of the dataset:
Unlimited
Limited
This is realized with radio buttons of course, where unlimited is the ...
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When a radio-button is not yet chosen
I have three radio-buttons for "kind of project":
personal / unregistered nonprofit / registered nonprofit
I also have text input "Organization name" below the radio buttons.
"Organization name" ...
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Radio buttons and subordinate options
I often come across the situation where the user must make a high-level choice using radio buttons or dropdown, and - depending on that choice - different sets of subordinate options are presented.
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An alternate approach to Treeview
I have a screen where I get a List of Main items. Inturn, each of these main items will have list of sub items inside them.
Now user can select a Main Item or items inside it and then run the report. ...
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Should I clear checkbox upon disable?
In this form, a user can ether select the checkboxes or the radio buttons, but not both. If the user selects a checkbox and afterwards selects a radio button, I then grey out the checkbox.
Should I ...
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Creating a clickable progress stepper
I've got a page editor that gives users the option to indicate their progress. I've got a couple options I'm considering pictured here, but the problem is indicating to the user that they need to ...
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What is the best way to assign values to an parent item
I have list of customers on database which have collection of items(storage accounts).
When I select a customer , I can see all the items that are relevant to that customer as ticked.
Also , I have ...
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Can we use Radio/Checkbox for mandatory form fields
I am working on designing a website which has admin side fuctionalities involving large number of forms related to creation of sevaral entities within the application along with normal user login. The ...
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Order of radio button options and default option
I am currently putting a form together for subscribing to email notifications. One of the options called 'Frequency' allows the user to select how frequently they want to receive notifications. At the ...
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Using multiple buttons to switch between application state
I have a situation where user can switch between two modes of working with an application.
To show which mode the application is currently in, I would like to use two buttons. One with a disabled ...
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Best Practice combine or separate similar dialog boxes like note and calendar event
My question is perhaps subjective so apologies in advance but this is a real dilemma I'm having.
I have a web based customer management program that allows users to add information about a customer, ...
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Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, and Mobile Development
I am currently working on an iOS app where the user interface should allow them to pick 1 of 2 options. One and only one option must be selected. My boss feels very passionately that this should be in ...
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Precedent for modal button with changing label and highlight color
My team is designing an interface for a route planning interface similar to Google Maps or Uber: select a pickup point and destination. Unlike those apps there is a ~small set of acceptable pickup/...
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Rotating button text
Suppose that you design a standard button that at every click rotates among a fixed number of options (in this case, display modes), like: Wireframe, Shaded, Rendered and then back to Wireframe.
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Confusion over radio button and terminology
I am designing a mobile application and was looking for some guidance on how to structure the inventory management section. This app allows for users to scan products and update the current Stock on ...
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Using a dropdown list or radio buttons to give meaningful rules on a webform
I have a situation where user based on user dropdown value selection , below control either show radio button choice or multiple select option. How to handle this kind of scenario for better user ...
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Is it better to use Checkboxes or Radio Buttons, when there are two or more fields and at least one of them must be filled out to pass validation?
Is it better to use Checkboxes or Radio Buttons, when there are two or more fields and at least one of them must be filled out to pass validation?
My concern comes to the validation errors that will ...
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Gmail's Email filter checkbox or radio?
I was just trying to filter the emails I was getting from the particular site and the time when I clicked on filter messages like these and then to Create a filter to this search, it opened some ...
