What can I do to make the blue box act as an input when I click it?

How can I get rid of the little white square and make the blue box act the an input when I click it?
Code: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/oJbdWb

@codeca423,
you can style the div differently and in your case I would get rid of the type checkbox. I would also nest the elements differently. Make the div the outer element and the anchor tag the inner element.