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Align radio buttons css issue


I am trying to align my custom radio buttons in a line but I am having an issue. If the text is really long but radio button overlap each other. I don't want to assign a fix width to any of them. Also, I need to have .radio .custom styling there if I want to change the border of the radio button for error handling. I am open to changing the html structure but I need the Text to be inside custom span. I can get rid of the inner-span if needed.

I have tried using:

display:flex;

on label

but it ended up giving me each option right over each other.

* {
  box-sizing: border-box;
}
input[type="radio"] {
  display: none;
  cursor: pointer;
}
label {
  cursor: pointer;
  min-width: 50px;
  display: inline-block;
  position: relative;
}
.radio span.custom > span {
  margin-left: 24px;
  margin-right: 10px;
}
.radio .custom {
  content: '';
  height: 20px;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  width: 20px;
  background-color: #fff;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  border-radius: 100%;
  position: absolute;
}
.radio input:checked + .custom:before {
  background-color: blue;
  border-radius: 100%;
  border: 3px solid #fff;
  content: "";
  display: block;
  height: 12px;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  width: 12px;
  z-index: 1;
  left: 0;
}
.radio input + .custom:after {
  border-radius: 100%;
}
.checkbox input:checked .custom {
  background-color: blue;
  border-color: blue;
}
<label class="radio">
  <input type="radio">
  <span class="custom"><span>Onasasasase</span></span>
</label>
<label class="radio">
  <input type="radio">
  <span class="custom"><span>Two</span></span>
</label>

JSFiddle Demo


Solution

  • Here is one way of doing it. I simplified your HTML slightly (removed extra nested span) and used the following CSS.

    Your custom button is 18px square, so I allowed for a 25px margin on the child element span.custom.

    This allows space for the :before pseudo-element that appears to the left of .custom.

    I colored the background on the label so that you can see the unchecked button, but otherwise, you can mark-up gives you a lot of control over the borders, spacing and so on.

    input[type="radio"] {
      cursor: pointer;
      display: none;
    }
    
    label {
      cursor: pointer;
      min-width: 50px;
      display:inline-block;
      position:relative;
      background-color: #F0F0F0; // for demo only
    }
    
    .radio .custom {
      margin-left: 25px;
      margin-right: 25px;
    }
    
    .radio input + .custom:before {
        content: "";
        background-color: #fff;
        border-radius: 100%;
        border: 3px solid #fff;
        display: block;
        height: 12px;
        width: 12px;
        position: absolute;
        top: 0;
        left: 0;
    }
    
    .radio input:checked + .custom:before {
        background-color: blue;
        border: 3px solid #fff;
    }
    <label class="radio">
      <input type="radio">
      <span class="custom">One is very long</span>
    </label>
    
    <label class="radio">
      <input type="radio">
      <span class="custom">Two</span>
    </label>