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<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12"><div class="well">
<form class="form-horizontal"><fieldset>
<div class="form-group">
<label class="col-md-2 control-label" for="gender">Gender</label>
<div class="col-md-10">
<div class="input-group">
<div class="btn-group radio-group">
<label class="btn btn-primary not-active">Male <input type="radio" value="male" name="gender"></label>
<label class="btn btn-primary not-active">Female <input type="radio" value="female" name="gender"></label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</fieldset></form>
</div></div>
</div>
<div class="row"><div class="jumbotron">
<p>You can set a default by setting the radio to "selected" and remove the 'not-active' class from the label. I find this an elegant way of controlling radios since the "Sexy"
version which I based this code on was really fugly inside. This also applies to humans, not just code.
</p>
</div></div>
</div>
.radio-group label {
overflow: hidden;
} .radio-group input {
/* This is on purpose for accessibility. Using display: hidden is evil.
This makes things keyboard friendly right out tha box! */
height: 1px;
width: 1px;
position: absolute;
top: -20px;
} .radio-group .not-active {
color: #3276b1;
background-color: #fff;
}
