Making radio buttons look like buttons instead

EDIT: this isn't a solution if you need to support IE browsers.

You could use CSS appearance property:

$(':radio').on('change', function() {
  console.log(this.id);
});
input[name=amount] {
  display: none
}

.donate-now {
  list-style-type: none;
  margin: 25px 0 0 0;
  padding: 0;
}

.donate-now li {
  float: left;
  margin: 0 5px 0 0;
}

.donate-now label {
  padding: 5px;
  cursor: pointer;
  -webkit-appearance: button;
  /* WebKit */
  -moz-appearance: button;
  /* Mozilla */
  -o-appearance: button;
  /* Opera */
  -ms-appearance: button;
  /* Internet Explorer */
  appearance: button;
  /* CSS3 */
}

.donate-now label:hover {
  background: #DDD;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul class="donate-now">
  <li>
    <label for="a25">
            <input type="radio" id="a25" name="amount">$25</label>
  </li>
  <li>
    <label for="a50">
            <input type="radio" id="a50" name="amount">$50</label>
  </li>
  <li>
    <label for="a75">
            <input type="radio" id="a75" name="amount" checked="checked">$75</label>
  </li>
  <li>
    <label for="a100">
            <input type="radio" id="a100" name="amount">$100</label>
  </li>
  <li>
    <label for="other">
            <input type="radio" id="other" name="amount">other:
            <input type="text" id="otherAmount" name="numAmount">
        </label>
  </li>
</ul>
-webkit-appearance: button; /* WebKit */
-moz-appearance: button; /* Mozilla */
-o-appearance: button; /* Opera */
-ms-appearance: button; /* Internet Explorer */
appearance: button; /* CSS3 */

It can be done with CSS and without the need of a large framework. I have done this with checkboxes and radio buttons.

This works without adding new HTML, or bringing in any JS libraries. => jsFiddle

THE NEW ORDER OF THE HTML

This is the ten minute hacky version, you can clean it up even further, but it shows a good example of how simple it is.

.donate-now {
  list-style-type: none;
  margin: 25px 0 0 0;
  padding: 0;
}

.donate-now li {
  float: left;
  margin: 0 5px 0 0;
  width: 100px;
  height: 40px;
  position: relative;
}

.donate-now label,
.donate-now input {
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
}

.donate-now input[type="radio"] {
  opacity: 0.01;
  z-index: 100;
}

.donate-now input[type="radio"]:checked+label,
.Checked+label {
  background: yellow;
}

.donate-now label {
  padding: 5px;
  border: 1px solid #CCC;
  cursor: pointer;
  z-index: 90;
}

.donate-now label:hover {
  background: #DDD;
}
<ul class="donate-now">
  <li>
    <input type="radio" id="a25" name="amount" />
    <label for="a25">$25</label>
  </li>
  <li>
    <input type="radio" id="a50" name="amount" />
    <label for="a50">$50</label>
  </li>
  <li>
    <input type="radio" id="a75" name="amount" checked="checked" />
    <label for="a75">$75</label>
  </li>
  <li>
    <input type="radio" id="a100" name="amount" />
    <label for="a100">$100</label>
  </li>
  <li>
    <input type="radio" id="other" name="amount" />
    <label for="other">other:</label>
  </li>
  <li>
    <input type="text" id="otherAmount" name="numAmount" />
  </li>
</ul>

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Html

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