Support control/label sizing for custom radios and checkboxes/switches

[tmorehouse]

Currently it is not possible to (properly) size custom radios and checkboxes, as one can do with other form-controls.

One can add .col-form-label-sm or .col-form-label-lg to the custom checkbox/radio markup to scale the label accordingly, but the indicator icon does not scale with the change in label font size.

One could switch the units of the ::before and ::after width/height/top, and the left gutter padding to em units instead of rem units (as these pseudo elements inherit the base font-size from their parent element - the label). This makes the indicators scale nicely when the font-size of the label scales, without needing additional CSS rules for the indicators. All that would be needed would be new classes .custom-control-sm and .custom-control-lg (as an alternative to using .col-form-label-sm and .col-form-label-lg) to control the font-size (and possibly top/bottom padding of the label text)

Example (switching pseudo element units to em):

[tmorehouse]

This trick would also work well with the new custom-switch component.

[adaniello]

I'm agree. This is the same point of my old issue #27527 closed by Mark.
Maybe it's time to clarify a way for custom controls sizing, considering also the missing of sizing for new "switch"control.

[mdo]

We can move to em units and make them easily scale. We’ll likely do that in v5 though instead of the v4.3 release to keep things behaving as expected.

[mdo]

This was added in #28450 with the major form rewrite to consolidate native and custom form controls from v4. Closing as fixed!