Checkbox

Checkbox

• Demonstration: Checkbox
• Java API: Checkbox
• JavaScript API: Checkbox
• Style Guide: Checkbox

Employment/Purpose

A checkbox.

Example

<window title="Checkbox demo" border="normal" width="350px">
	<checkbox id="apple" label="Apple" onCheck="doChecked()" />
	<checkbox id="orange" label="Orange" onCheck="doChecked()" />
	<checkbox id="banana" label="Banana" onCheck="doChecked()" />
	<hbox>
		You have selected :
		<label id="fruit2" />
	</hbox>
	<zscript> void doChecked() { fruit2.value = (apple.isChecked() ?
		apple.label+' ' : &quot;&quot;) 
                     + (orange.isChecked() ? orange.label+' ' : &quot;&quot;) 
                     + (banana.isChecked() ? banana.label+' ' : &quot;&quot;);
             }
         </zscript>
 </window>

Mold

[ Since 8.6.0 ]

There are two additional molds for Checkbox: switch and toggle, you can customize the mold in css by overriding class.

  <checkbox mold="switch" />
  <checkbox mold="toggle" />

switch

Default:

Customized in CSS:

.z-checkbox-switch-off > .z-checkbox-mold {
	background-color: red;
}
.z-checkbox-switch-on > .z-checkbox-mold {
	background-color: green;
}
.z-checkbox-switch-off > .z-checkbox-mold:before {
	background-color: black;
}
.z-checkbox-switch-on > .z-checkbox-mold:before {
	background-color: white;
}

toggle

Default:

Customized in CSS:

.z-checkbox-toggle-off > .z-checkbox-mold {
	background-color: red;
}
.z-checkbox-toggle-on > .z-checkbox-mold {
	background-color: green;
}

tristate

[ Since 9.0.0 ]

Allowing users to set the indeterminate state, in addition to the checked and unchecked states.

<checkbox mold="tristate"></checkbox>

And provides a getState method returns the current state.

checkbox.getState() // returns the current state

Indeterminate

[ Since 8.6.0 ]

Indeterminate is a state that is neither checked nor unchecked.

Note: changing indeterminate will not affect checked state, but changing checked will set indeterminate to false.

    <checkbox indeterminate="true"/>

Supported Events

Name	Event Type
onFocus	Event: Event Denotes when a component gets the focus.
onBlur	Event: Event Denotes when a component loses the focus.
onCheck	Event: CheckEvent Denotes when a component is checked or unchecked.

• Inherited Supported Events: LabelImageElement

Supported Children

*None

Use Cases

Version	Description	Example Location

Version History

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