--- title: “Yes or No?” | daily.dev description: A checkbox represents this: it’s either on or off (uh, mostly). But is a checkbox always the best UX? It depends, of course:Use radio buttons if you expect the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/yes-or-no--sb1cwzwvl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: “Yes or No?” | daily.dev og:description: A checkbox represents this: it’s either on or off (uh, mostly). But is a checkbox always the best UX? It depends, of course:Use radio buttons if you expect the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/yes-or-no--sb1cwzwvl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sb1cWZwvl.png og:image:alt: “Yes or No?” og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # “Yes or No?” **[CSS-Tricks](https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks)** · 14 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary A checkbox represents this: it’s either on or off (uh, mostly). But is a checkbox always the best UX? It depends, of course:Use radio buttons if you expect the answer to be equally distributed. If you want a concrete, deliberate, explicit answer and don’t want a default selection, use radio buttons. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ghost** · 0 upvotes > Very Basic! **@ghost** · 0 upvotes > If you need to know which input selection you can use of what are the differences then this is the post for you! --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/yes-or-no--sb1cwzwvl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"“Yes or No?”","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/yes-or-no--sb1cwzwvl","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/yes-or-no--sb1cwzwvl"},"datePublished":"2020-12-23T00:17:45.556Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"A checkbox represents this: it’s either on or off (uh, mostly). 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