Element: Checkbox

This element is a checkbox that can be toggled on or off.

Sample Switch

Events

Switches have a mouseUp event that can be configured using low-code. This event is triggered when the user toggles the checkbox.

Appli treats the checked and unchecked state of a checkbox as true or false value.

Properties

Text Section

The properties in this section are used together with those in the appearance section to configure how the element is displayed on the screen. This section deals with the properties related to text used by the checkbox.

Property Description
textSize The text size used in the element’s text.
textFont The font used in the element’s text.
textStyle The style used in the element’s text. It can be bold, italic, underlined, and strikethrough.
sizing sets the sizing of the element.

Geometry Section

Use the properties in this section to configure the responsive design behaviors for the element.

Property Description
responsive sets if the element size should be responsive.
responsiveX how the element resizes responding to screen changes in the X axis.
responsiveY how the element resizes responding to screen changes in the Y axis.
lockResponsiveAspectRatio Locks the aspect ratio of the element.
allowUnderNotch Stretch to fill notch

Size Section

This section is used to configure the checkbox size and position.

Property Description
width The value in pixels representing the distance between the left side of the element and its right side.
left The value in pixels representing how distant element is from the left side of the window.
height The value in pixels representing the distance between the bottom side of the element and its top side.
top The value in pixels representing how far the element is from the top of the window.
lockAspectRatio Locks the aspect ratio of the element.

Appearance Section

This section is used to configure how the checkbox looks.

Property Description
blendLevel How transparent the element is.
showBorder Turns the visibility of the element’s borders on or off.
borderWidth Border Size
borderColor the color used for the border of the element.
textColor the color of the text in the element.
hiliteColor The color of the hilited state of the element.

Element Section

This section is contains properties that are specific to elements of type checkbox.

Property Description
name The name of the element. Displayed in the project browser.
defaultValue Default Value
label The text label for the element.
wrap Toggles text wrapping.

This chapter was last updated on Fri 8 May 2026 15:20:15 BST