X-Checkbox – Custom HTML5 Web Component

People who follow this blog (cheers, mates!) and my fellow co-workers know that I am interested in the form control styling, and especially that of check boxes and radio buttons. Over the years I have come up with a number of different solutions, but finally I found the time to start experimenting with the new and exciting world of the HTML5 Web Components. This is my first attempt to create a custom web component – a custom check box, built on top of Mozilla’s X-Tag library. The reason I did not use Google Polymer is just because I started playing with X-Tags, but certainly in the near future I will utilize Polymer.

So here it is – as easy as <acidjs-xcheckbox></acidjs-xcheckbox>, supporting native getters, setters and native properties (checked, disabled, class, etc.) as well as any other custom attributes, form submission without additional check box manipulation, keyboard events plus a couple of additional methods for toggling the enabled and checked states.

Since Shadow DOM is not consistent across browsers yet, the gory guts of the component will reveal a simple check box, wrapped in a label. The look and feel has been achieved with CSS3. Tested on Firefox and Chrome, but supposedly should work on other modern browsers plus IE11.

Have nice weekend and greetings from sunny Malta!