How to change the color or the accent color of the checkbox input HTML element on a webpage using CSS?
Tags: css
Published: 2022-12-12 05:24:04

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  title: How to change the color or the accent color of the checkbox input HTML element on a webpage using CSS?
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  tags: CSS
  date: Mon Dec 12 2022 10:54:04 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
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  [Originally posted here!](https://melvingeorge.me/blog/change-color-or-accent-color-of-checkbox-input-html-element-on-webpage-using-css)
  To change the color or the accent color of the `input` checkbox HTML element on a webpage using CSS, you can use the `accent-color` CSS property on the checkbox input selector in the CSS styles and set its value to the color of your choice.

### TL;DR

```html
<!-- A simple webpage with a checkbox `input` HTML element -->
<html>
  <style>
    #myCheckbox {
      /* setting the checkbox input HTML element accent color to `green` */
      accent-color: green;
    }
  </style>
  <body>
    <label for="myCheckbox">Enable me</label>
    <input type="checkbox" id="myCheckbox" />
  </body>
</html>
```

For example, let's say we have an `input` checkbox HTML element on the webpage like this,

```html
<!-- A simple webpage with a checkbox `input` HTML element -->
<html>
  <body>
    <label for="myCheckbox">Enable me</label>
    <input type="checkbox" id="myCheckbox" />
  </body>
</html>
```

The webpage now looks like this,

![webpage with a checkbox input HTML element](/uploads/Screenshot_2022_12_01_at_8_15_32_PM_97c27ce709.png)

If you see the above screenshot, the checkbox HTML element has the default color or the accent color (blue color in the case of Safari browser) applied to it.

We aim to change the color or the accent color of the checkbox input HTML element to a `green` color.

To do that first, let's select the checkbox input using the `myCheckbox` id selector in the CSS styles like this,

```html
<!-- A simple webpage with a checkbox `input` HTML element -->
<html>
  <style>
    #myCheckbox {
      /* CSS style here */
    }
  </style>
  <body>
    <label for="myCheckbox">Enable me</label>
    <input type="checkbox" id="myCheckbox" />
  </body>
</html>
```

Now let's apply the accent color of `green` to the checkbox input HTML elements by using the `accent-color` CSS property inside the `#myCheckbox` id selector and setting the value as `green`.

It can be done like this,

```html
<!-- A simple webpage with a checkbox `input` HTML element -->
<html>
  <style>
    #myCheckbox {
      /* setting the checkbox input HTML element accent color to `green` */
      accent-color: green;
    }
  </style>
  <body>
    <label for="myCheckbox">Enable me</label>
    <input type="checkbox" id="myCheckbox" />
  </body>
</html>
```

Now the checkbox input HTML element's accent color is changed to `green` color.

A visual representation of the checkbox input HTML element is shown below,

![webpage with a checkbox input HTML element having accent color set to green](/uploads/01_0fac85bed6.gif)

We have successfully changed the accent color of the checkbox input HTML element using CSS. Yay 🥳!

See the above code live in [codesandbox](https://codesandbox.io/s/change-color-or-accent-color-of-checkbox-input-html-element-on-webpage-using-css-le82rs?file=/index.html).

That's all 😃.