Customize the appearance of a Switch

17 Feb 20222 minutes to read

You can customize the appearance of the Switch component using the CSS rules. Define your own CSS rules according to your requirement and assign the class name to the cssClass property.

Customize Switch bar and handle

Switch bar and handle can be customized as per requirement using CSS rules. Switch bar and handle customized using cssClass property. In the following sample, the border-radius CSS property for e-switch-inner and e-switch-handle elements was changed border radius circle to square shape.

CSHTML

@Html.EJS().Switch("switch1").CssClass("square").Render()
@Html.EJS().Switch("switch2").CssClass("custom-switch").Render()
@Html.EJS().Switch("switch3").CssClass("handle-text").Render()


<style>
/* Square Switch */
.e-switch-wrapper.square .e-switch-inner,
.e-switch-wrapper.square .e-switch-handle {
  border-radius: 0;
}

/* Customize Handle and Bar Switch */
.e-switch-wrapper.custom-switch {
  width: 50px;
  height: 24px;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.custom-switch .e-switch-handle {
  width: 20px;
  height: 16px;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.custom-switch .e-switch-inner,
.e-switch-wrapper.custom-switch .e-switch-handle {
  border-radius: 0;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.custom-switch .e-switch-handle.e-switch-active {
  left: 42px;
}

/* Customize Handle and Bar Switch */
.e-switch-wrapper.handle-text {
  width: 58px;
  height: 24px;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.handle-text .e-switch-handle {
  width: 26px;
  height: 20px;
  left: 2px;
  background-color: #fff;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.handle-text .e-switch-inner,
.e-switch-wrapper.handle-text .e-switch-handle {
  border-radius: 0;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.handle-text .e-switch-handle.e-switch-active {
  left: 46px;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.handle-text .e-switch-inner.e-switch-active,
.e-switch-wrapper.handle-text:hover .e-switch-inner.e-switch-active .e-switch-on {
  background-color: #4d841d;
  border-color: #4d841d;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.handle-text .e-switch-inner,
.e-switch-wrapper.handle-text .e-switch-off {
  background-color: #e3165b;
  border-color: #e3165b;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.handle-text .e-switch-inner:after,
.e-switch-wrapper.handle-text .e-switch-inner:before {
  font-size: 10px;
  position: absolute;
  line-height: 21px;
  font-family: "Helvetica", sans-serif;
  z-index: 1;
  height: 100%;
  transition: all 200ms cubic-bezier(0.445, 0.05, 0.55, 0.95);
}

.e-switch-wrapper.handle-text .e-switch-inner:before {
  content: "OFF";
  color:#e3165b;
  left: 3px;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.handle-text .e-switch-inner:after{
  content: "ON";
  right: 5px;
  color: #fff;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.handle-text .e-switch-inner.e-switch-active:before {
  color: #fff;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.handle-text .e-switch-inner.e-switch-active:after {
  color: #4d841d;
}
</style>

Default.cs

public ActionResult Default()
    {
            return View();
    }

Color the Switch

Switch colors can be customized as per the requirement using CSS rules. Switch bar and handle colors customized using cssClass property. In the following sample, the e-switch-inner and e-switch-off elements background and border colors were changed from default colors.

CSHTML

@Html.EJS().Switch("switch1").CssClass("bar-color").Render()
@Html.EJS().Switch("switch2").CssClass("handle-color").Render()
@Html.EJS().Switch("switch3").CssClass("custom-iOS").Render()

<style>
/* Custom color Switch */
.e-switch-wrapper.bar-color .e-switch-inner.e-switch-active,
.e-switch-wrapper.bar-color:hover .e-switch-inner.e-switch-active .e-switch-on {
  background-color: #4d841d;
  border-color: #4d841d;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.bar-color .e-switch-inner,
.e-switch-wrapper.bar-color .e-switch-off {
  background-color: #e3165b;
  border-color: #e3165b;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.bar-color .e-switch-handle {
  background-color: #fff;
}

/* handle color Switch */
.e-switch-wrapper.handle-color .e-switch-handle {
  background-color: #e3165b;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.handle-color .e-switch-handle.e-switch-active {
  background-color: #4d841d
}

.e-switch-wrapper.handle-color .e-switch-inner.e-switch-active,
.e-switch-wrapper.handle-color:hover .e-switch-inner.e-switch-active .e-switch-on {
  background-color: #fff;
  border-color: #ccc;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.handle-color .e-switch-inner,
.e-switch-wrapper.handle-color .e-switch-off {
  background-color: #fff;
  border-color: #ccc;
}

/* iOS Switch */
.e-switch-wrapper.custom-iOS .e-switch-inner.e-switch-active,
.e-switch-wrapper.custom-iOS:hover .e-switch-inner.e-switch-active .e-switch-on {
  background-color: #3df865;
  border-color: #3df665;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.custom-iOS {
  width: 42px;
  height: 24px;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.custom-iOS .e-switch-handle {
  width: 20px;
  height: 20px;
}

.e-switch-wrapper.custom-iOS .e-switch-handle.e-switch-active {
  margin-left: -22px;
} 
</style>

Default.cs

public ActionResult Default()
    {
            return View();
    }