How to draw a checkmark / tick using CSS?

Css Problem Overview

How to draw the tick symbol using CSS? The symbols I find using Unicode isn't aesthetically-pleasing.

EDIT Icon fonts are a great suggestion. I was looking for something like this.

Css Solutions

Solution 1 - Css

You can draw two rectangles and place them next to each other. And then rotate by 45 degrees. Modify the width/height/top/left parameters for any variation.

DEMO 1

DEMO 2 (With circle)

HTML

<span class="checkmark">
    <div class="checkmark_stem"></div>
    <div class="checkmark_kick"></div>
</span>

CSS

.checkmark {
    display:inline-block;
    width: 22px;
    height:22px;
    -ms-transform: rotate(45deg); /* IE 9 */
    -webkit-transform: rotate(45deg); /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
    transform: rotate(45deg);
}

.checkmark_stem {
    position: absolute;
    width:3px;
    height:9px;
    background-color:#ccc;
    left:11px;
    top:6px;
}

.checkmark_kick {
    position: absolute;
    width:3px;
    height:3px;
    background-color:#ccc;
    left:8px;
    top:12px;
}

Solution 2 - Css

Here is another CSS solution. its take less line of code.

ul li:before
{
    content: '\2713';
    display: inline-block;
    color: red;
    padding: 0 6px 0 0;
}

ul li
{
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 1em;
}

<ul>
    <li>test1</li>
    <li>test</li>
</ul>

Here is the Demo link http://jsbin.com/keliguqi/1/

Solution 3 - Css

Do some transforms with the letter L

.checkmark {
  font-family: arial;
  -ms-transform: scaleX(-1) rotate(-35deg); /* IE 9 */
  -webkit-transform: scaleX(-1) rotate(-35deg); /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
  transform: scaleX(-1) rotate(-35deg);
}

<div class="checkmark">L</div>

Solution 4 - Css

only css, quite simple I find it:

.checkmark {
      display: inline-block;
      transform: rotate(45deg);
      height: 25px;
      width: 12px;
      margin-left: 60%; 
      border-bottom: 7px solid #78b13f;
      border-right: 7px solid #78b13f;
    }

<div class="checkmark"></div>

Solution 5 - Css

You can now include web fonts and even shrink down the file size with just the glyphs you need. https://github.com/fontello/fontello http://fontello.com/

li:before {
  content:'[add icon symbol here]';
  font-family: [my cool web icon font here];
  display:inline-block;
  vertical-align: top;
  line-height: 1em;
  width: 1em;
  height:1em;
  margin-right: 0.3em;
  text-align: center;
  color: #999;
}

Solution 6 - Css

An additional solution, for when you only have one of the :before / :after psuedo-elements available, is described here: :after-Checkbox using borders

It basically uses the border-bottom and border-right properties to create the checkbox, and then rotates the mirrored L using transform

Example

li {
  position: relative; /* necessary for positioning the :after */
}

li.done {
  list-style: none; /* remove normal bullet for done items */
}

li.done:after {
  content: "";
  background-color: transparent;
  
  /* position the checkbox */
  position: absolute;
  left: -16px;
  top: 0px;

  /* setting the checkbox */
    /* short arm */
  width: 5px;
  border-bottom: 3px solid #4D7C2A;
    /* long arm */
  height: 11px;
  border-right: 3px solid #4D7C2A;
  
  /* rotate the mirrored L to make it a checkbox */
  transform: rotate(45deg);
    -o-transform: rotate(45deg);
    -ms-transform: rotate(45deg);
    -webkit-transform: rotate(45deg);
}

To do:
<ul>
  <li class="done">Great stuff</li>
  <li class="done">Easy stuff</li>
  <li>Difficult stuff</li>
</ul>

Solution 7 - Css

I've used something similar to BM2ilabs's answer in the past to style the tick in checkboxes. This technique uses only a single pseudo element so it preserves the semantic HTML and there is no reason for additional HTML elements.

label {
  cursor: pointer;
}

input[type="checkbox"] {
  position: relative;
  top: 2px;
  box-sizing: content-box;
  width: 14px;
  height: 14px;
  margin: 0 5px 0 0;
  cursor: pointer;
  -webkit-appearance: none;
  border-radius: 2px;
  background-color: #fff;
  border: 1px solid #b7b7b7;
}

input[type="checkbox"]:before {
  content: '';
  display: block;
}

input[type="checkbox"]:checked:before {
  width: 4px;
  height: 9px;
  margin: 0px 4px;
  border-bottom: 2px solid #115c80;
  border-right: 2px solid #115c80;
  transform: rotate(45deg);
}

<label>
  <input type="checkbox" name="check-1" value="Label">Label
</label>

Solution 8 - Css

Try this // html example

<span>&#10003;</span>

// css example

span {
  content: "\2713";
}

Solution 9 - Css

i like this way because you don't need to create two components just one.

.checkmark:after {
    opacity: 1;
    height: 4em;
    width: 2em;
    -webkit-transform-origin: left top;
    transform-origin: left top;
    border-right: 2px solid #5cb85c;
    border-top: 2px solid #5cb85c;
    content: '';
    left: 2em;
    top: 4em;
    position: absolute;
}

Animation from Scott Galloway Pen

Solution 10 - Css

I suggest to use a tick symbol not draw it. Or use webfonts which are free for example: fontello[dot]com You can than replace the tick symbol with a web font glyph.

Lists

ul {padding: 0;}
li {list-style: none}
li:before {
  display:inline-block;
  vertical-align: top;
  line-height: 1em;
  width: 1em;
  height:1em;
  margin-right: 0.3em;
  text-align: center;
  content: '✔';
  color: #999;
}

See here: http://jsfiddle.net/hpmW7/3/

Checkboxes

You even have web fonts with tick symbol glyphs and CSS 3 animations. For IE8 you would need to apply a polyfill since it does not understand :checked.

input[type="checkbox"] {
  clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
  left: -9999px;
  position: absolute !important;
}
label:before,
input[type="checkbox"]:checked + label:before {
  content:'';
  display:inline-block;
  vertical-align: top;
  line-height: 1em;
  border: 1px solid #999;
  border-radius: 0.3em;
  width: 1em;
  height:1em;
  margin-right: 0.3em;
  text-align: center;
}
input[type="checkbox"]:checked + label:before {
  content: '✔';
  color: green;
}

See the JS fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/VzvFE/37

Solution 11 - Css

li:before {
	content: '';
	height: 5px;
	background-color: green;
	position: relative;
	display: block;
	top: 50%;
	left: 50%;
	width: 9px;
	margin-left: -15px;
	-ms-transform: rotate(45deg);
	-webkit-transform: rotate(45deg);
	transform: rotate(45deg);
}
li:after {
	content: '';
	height: 5px;
	background-color: green;
	position: relative;
	display: block;
	top: 50%;
	left: 50%;
	width: 20px;
	margin-left: -11px;
	margin-top: -6px;
	-ms-transform: rotate(-45deg);
	-webkit-transform: rotate(-45deg);
	transform: rotate(-45deg);
}

Solution 12 - Css

After some changing to above Henry's answer, I got a tick with in a circle, I came here looking for that, so adding my code here.

.snackbar_circle {
  background-color: #f0f0f0;
  border-radius: 13px;
  padding: 0 5px;
}

.checkmark {
  font-family: arial;
  font-weight: bold;
  -ms-transform: scaleX(-1) rotate(-35deg);
  -webkit-transform: scaleX(-1) rotate(-35deg);
  transform: scaleX(-1) rotate(-35deg);
  color: #63BA3D;
  display: inline-block;
}

<span class="snackbar_circle">
   <span class="checkmark">L</span>
</span>

Solution 13 - Css

You might want to try fontawesome.io

It has great collection of icons. For you <i class="fa fa-check" aria-hidden="true"></i> should work. There are many check icons in this too. Hope it helps.

Solution 14 - Css

Also, using the awesome font, you can use the following tag. Simple and beautiful

With the possibility of changing the size and color and other features in CSS

See result here

Solution 15 - Css

This is my variant for making 'checked' buttons

HTML

<button class="unchecked" type="submit" onclick="clickMe(this); return false;" value="something"></button>

JavaScript

function clickMe(data) {
  data.classList.add("checked");
}

CSS

.unchecked::before { content: "C"; }
.unchecked { border-radius: 50%; outline: none; }
.checked::before { content: "L"; }
.checked { background-color: green; transform: rotate(45deg) scaleX(-1); }

Solution 16 - Css

We can use CSS pseudo-element to make the checkmark/tick sign. Suppose, we have a span tag in our HTML and we want to place out checkmark before the span. We can simply do this:

<span class="check_text">Some Text</span>

Now, we can add the CSS like this:

span.check_text:before {
    position: absolute;
    height: 15px;
    width: 5px;
    border-bottom: 3px solid red;
    border-right: 3px solid red;
    content: "";
    transform: rotate(45deg);
    left: -25px;
    top: 2px;
}

Solution 17 - Css

This is simple css for Sign Mark.

ul li:after{opacity: 1;content: '\2713';right: 20px;position: absolute;font-size: 20px;font-weight: bold;}

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