fa-checkbox

A simple Ruby On Rails gem to replace standard browser's checkboxes and radio buttons with Font Awesome icons.

This gem has a dependency to the font-awesome-rails gem and makes Font Awesome and font-awesome-rails available in your application implicitly.

Add this to your Gemfile:

gem 'fa-checkbox'

and run bundle install.

In your application.css, include the css file:

/*
*= require fa-checkbox
*/

to make it picked up by the asset pipline. Restart your webserver if it was running.

If you support some old browsers that make trouble with custom @font-face fonts, you can disable fa-checkbox by conditional inclusion of fa-checkbox-revert.css. You need to make it available to your application by pre-compiling it first. Add this line to confic/initializers/assets.rb or another your environment initialization file:

Rails.application.config.assets.precompile += %w(fa-checkbox-revert.css)

And included it to your application layout depending on your conditions. For example, for IE8 and below:

<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<%= stylesheet_link_tag 'fa-checkbox-revert', media: :all %>
<!--<![endif]-->

Make sure that all labels in your application are linked to their checkboxes and radio buttons with <label for='...'> attribute properly. Otherwise they will not react to you clicks.