In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user:
There isn't anything special happening here. We just contain all our labels and inputs into a .radio-toggles wrapper, make sure those labels are each properly connected to their corresponding inputs, and then add an empty .slide-item element (more on that later).
Now for the main event – the CSS. First we want to style the wrapper that holds all of our pieces together. You can tweak this to your liking, but I prefer a simple and clean style:
Remember that .slide-item I referenced earlier? That element will be the visual “slider” that animates between the individual radio options. We style that like so:
You'll notice the left, height, and width properties utilize the CSS calc attributes – this just gives some much needed padding and visual clean-up to the whole tabbed interface.
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For the finishing touches, we just need to tell the .slide-item where to position itself based on which radio input is currently selected: