The html code defining a checkbox should be similar to '<input
type="checkbox" ...>'
>
> Thus the tag name itself is input, and not checkbox. So a css selector
> for checkbox won't influence the checkbox. Input elements have an
> attribute named "type" which can have different values like "text",
> "radio", "checkbox", "image".
>
> CSS 2.1 allows for attribute selectors:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#attribute-selectors
>
> So
>
> input[type="checkbox"] {
> margin-right:40px;
> padding-right:40px;
> }
>
> might work for browsers supporting CSS 2.1.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian Kirchhoff
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>
> Daniel Kessler schrieb:
>> I'm trying to set it up so that all checkboxes on my site have a
>> margin or padding to the right. In my main css, I thought I could
>> address the element and tried:
>> checkbox {margin-right:40px; padding-right:40px;}
>>
>> It didn't work. If I made it into a class, it then worked but I
>> would have to insert it into each checkbox rather than doing one
>> sitewide setup.
>>
>> So how would I get that to work? And if not, do I actually have to
>> put a class on every single checkbox? I currently have it in a ul/li
>> but I removed it from there and still couldn't get it to work.
>>
>> thank you.
>>
>>
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