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Life & fun · February 27, 2020

Checkboxland – A library for rendering anything as HTML checkboxes

The Checkboxland JavaScript library renders anything as HTML checkboxes, from animations and text to images and video.

Checkboxland – A library for rendering anything as HTML checkboxes launched on February 27, 2020 with 5 votes, #1,271 of 3,162 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

Checkboxland is a JavaScript library for rendering anything as HTML checkboxes. You can use it to display animations, text, images, video, and arbitrary data. It also supports plugins, so you can add your own APIs. Checkboxland is dependency-free, framework-agnostic, and fun! 🙃 Having lots of elements on a webpage can impact runtime performance . Checkboxes are no exception. Checkboxland attempts to mitigate some of these issues, but you'll likely run into performance issues if you are displaying large grids (1500+ checkboxes), and trying to update them rapidly. For best results, stay below 1500 checkboxes. Some good sizes in this range include 32x32 , 48x24 , and 64x16 . We created a…from bryanbraun.com

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