Beautiful Pardot Forms: Styling Checkboxes and Radio Buttons

Refreshed and republished on April 3, 2021

This post was originally published on December 11, 2018 and has been revamped and updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness.

Your Pardot forms don’t have to be boring. With a little extra CSS you can create beautiful Pardot forms with customized checkboxes and radio buttons. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can style checkboxes and radio buttons within Pardot forms with minimal coding.

Before we begin…

Let’s refresh on how to add custom CSS to your Pardot forms.

Navigate to Marketing > Forms > Layout Templates and select the layout to add the form styles to. Paste the CSS right above the existing code of the Form tab and save.

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Styling Checkboxes

One of the downsides of using Pardot forms is the inability to modify the HTML structure of the form, so I will be leveraging the standard Pardot HTML to style the checkboxes.

The HTML

The standard HTML for a checkbox in a Pardot form looks like this:

Notice how the all the checkboxes are wrapped in a paragraph tag with the class pd-checkbox? This is how we will target the checkbox input and the checkbox label within the CSS.

The CSS

For the CSS, the default checkbox will be hidden and the ::before selector will be used to style the new checkbox.

The Result

The styled checkboxes will look like this once the CSS has been added to the Pardot form.

See the Pen Pardot Customized Checkboxes Using CSS (option 1) by Jenna Molby (@jennamolby) on CodePen.

Styling Radio Buttons

Styling radio buttons are pretty similar to the checkboxes, but with a bit of extra CSS to make them look like a radio button. Just like the checkboxes, we will leverage the HTML that Pardot provides, so all you have to do is add some CSS.

The HTML

All radio buttons in the Pardot form are wrapped in a paragraph tag with the class pd-radio. This is how we will target the radio input and the radio label within the CSS.

The CSS

Just like the CSS for the checkboxes, the default radio button will be hidden.

The Result

See the Pen Pardot Customized Radio Buttons Using CSS (option 1) by Jenna Molby (@jennamolby) on CodePen.

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