Generate On/Off flip switch button with CSS3

Presently, generating flip switch button (on off) using CSS is very novel concept amongst designers. Therefore in this blog, I am going to explain how to design On/Off flip switch custom button using CSS3 transitions.

How to create custom flip switch button?

Initially, start from html div structure. Inside the div we would need one <input> tag with type checkbox.

Refer the below HTML code:

<div class="switchbutton">
  <input type="checkbox" name="onoffswitch" class="switchbutton-checkbox" id="myonoffswitch" checked/>
  <label class="switchbutton-label" for="myonoffswitch">
    <span class="switchbutton-inner"></span>
    <span class="switchbutton-switch-btn"></span>
  </label>
</div>

Next step is styling with CSS3

.switchbutton {
 position: relative;
 width: 80px;
 -webkit-user-select: none;
 -moz-user-select: none;
 -ms-user-select: none;
}

.switchbutton-checkbox {
 display: none;
}

.switchbutton-label {
 display: block;
 overflow: hidden;
 cursor: pointer;
 border: 1px solid #999999;
 border-radius: 20px;
 height: 30px;
}

.switchbutton-inner {
 display: block;
 width: 200%;
 margin-left: -100%;
 transition: margin 0.3s ease-in 0s;
}

.switchbutton-inner:before,
.switchbutton-inner:after {
 float: left;
 width: 50%;
 height: 30px;
 box-sizing: border-box;
}

.switchbutton-inner:before {
 content: "";
 padding-left: 10px;
 background-color: #31D5BE;
 color: #FFFFFF;
}

.switchbutton-inner:after {
 content: "";
 padding-right: 10px;
 background-color: #CCCCCC;
 color: #333333;
 text-align: right;
}

.switchbutton-switch-btn {
 display: block;
 width: 32px;
 margin: 0px;
 background: #000000;
 position: absolute;
 top: 0;
 bottom: 0;
 right: 48px;
 transition: all 0.3s ease-in 0s;
 border-radius: 20px;
}

.switchbutton-checkbox:checked + .switchbutton-label .switchbutton-inner {
 margin-left: 0;
}

.switchbutton-checkbox:checked + .switchbutton-label .switchbutton-switch-btn {
 right: 0px;
}

Next is to proceed with switch button animation using css3 ‘transition’. Here, the button width is 32px and position is ‘absolute’ having values top: 0 and bottom: 0. Now, we calculate the value of right side.

The class ‘.switchbutton’ width is 80px and class ‘.switchbutton-switch-btn’ width is 32px. So we deduct the value 32px (.switchbutton-switch-btn) from 80px (.switchbutton). Whatever value is generated is assigned to the right side i.e. right: 48px.

. switchbutton -switch-btn {
 display: block;
 width: 32px;
 margin: 0px;
 background: #000000;
 position: absolute;
 top: 0;
 bottom: 0;
 right: 48px;
 transition: all 0.3s ease-in 0s;
 border - radius: 20px;
}

Here's how the switch button will look like -