I am having issues centering a form in Bootstrap. I also don't seem to be able to resize the input boxes. I would like to have it centered.
This is what I have:
<div class="form-group row" id="SignupCreate">
<div class="col-sm-4">
<label>Email</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" id="inputEmail" placeholder="Email">
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4">
<label>Password</label>
<input type="password" class="form-control" id="inputPassword" placeholder="Password">
<div class="col-sm-4">
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
And for CSS I started:
#SignUpCreate {
padding-top: 200px;
margin-right: 30px;
margin-left: 30px;
}
you only need to apply some width and make it center with margin: 0 auto
<div class="form-group row" id="signupcreate">
<div class="col-sm-4">
<label>Email</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" id="inputEmail" placeholder="Email">
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4">
<label>Password</label>
<input type="password" class="form-control" id="inputPassword" placeholder="Password">
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4">
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</div>
</div>
below code will center your form
#signupcreate{
width: 60%;
margin: 0 auto;
float: none;
}
You probably want to put it inside a container. Like this:
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
// Your code here
</div>
</div>
Possible duplicate of: Center Form using Twitter Bootstrap
There are a couple ways to solve this but I really recommend to use bootstrap itself to do it.
What I recommend is using offsets. So if you want your form centered just use something like:
<div class="form-group row" id="SignupCreate">
<div class="col-sm-4 col-sm-offset-4">
<label>Email</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" id="inputEmail" placeholder="Email">
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4 col-sm-offset-4">
<label>Password</label>
<input type="password" class="form-control" id="inputPassword" placeholder="Password">
<div class="col-sm-4">
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
You can tweak your offsets for xs, sm, md and lg accordingly, make sure to set offset to 0 if you don't want offset in a particular view.
Now for your styles, you are giving css a SignUpCreate id when in fact is SignupCreate, remember css selectors are case sensitive.
Also keep in mind for the future that when using bootstrap you should try as much to stick to the framework and use all its features instead of coding your own CSS, and when you do, a good thing to keep in mind is that CSS uses "points" to know which styles are more relevant, I recommend checking Specifics on CSS Specificity
So let's say you want to style something that has padding right and left, I would avoid using a row or column element to do this and would add a second container div to "respect" bootstrap styles.
I hope this answer is helpful :)
There is also a good answer here: Center a column using Twitter Bootstrap 3
UPDATE:
With boostrap 4.5^ you can center any item using d-flex justify-content-center on the parent, if you also want to align the items vertically (relative to the parent's height) simply add align-items-center.
How can I have a form on one side of the container and a text-paragraph on the other side? I figured if I put it all in a container with one row of two columns it would work but for some reason, the paragraph text shows up under the form on the left side.
This is a screenshot of what's happening based on the code I have right now.
<div class="container-section getintouch">
<h1 class="text-center">Say hello?</h1>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-6">
<form>
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control no-border
placeholder="Email">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control no-border"
placeholder="Email">
</div>
<textarea class="form-control no-border" rows="5" id="comment"></textarea>
</div>
</form>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-6">
<h3>Want to say hello? It's always nice meeting new people. Fill out
this form to the left and I'll reply to you as soon as I can :)
</h3>
</div>
</div>enter code here
.container-section{
width: full;
height: full;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 100px;
color: white;
}
.getintouch{
background: #9dd1f1;
}
I just started learning to code so I apologize if this seems like a silly question. I searched around and couldn't find the answer anywhere.
Thank you in advance!
Learn HTML and CSS properly before asking any questions.
There's no CSS rule that has a value full.
Don't give padding on full width.
You forgot to add a container class.
Lots of invalid HTML, unclosed and stuff.
Snippet
.container-section {
-margin: 0 auto;
-color: white;
}
.getintouch {
background: #9dd1f1;
}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
<div class="container-section getintouch">
<h1 class="text-center">Say hello?</h1>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-6">
<form>
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control no-border" id=formGroupExampleInput " placeholder="Name "">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control no-border" id=formGroupExampleInput2 " placeholder="Email "">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<textarea class="form-control no-border" rows="5" id="comment"></textarea>
</div>
</form>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-6">
<h3>Want to say hello? It's always nice meeting new people. Fill out this form to the left and I'll reply to you as soon as I can :)</h3>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Preview
Output: http://jsbin.com/mepiripeju/edit?html,css,output
Trying to align two form elements side by side to create an hours per week field
e.g
Hours per week (box here) - (box here)
but when I use two col-md-2 with a - between them I get the result of
Hours per week (box here) (box here) -
Anyone have a solution to display the - between the two boxes? I've tried using 3 col-md-1 but the alignment gets all out of whack!
The below code follows Bootstrap form construction. Using .input-group allows you to nest .input-group-addon between to fields with the .form-control class - though you do need to specify a width (hence the .col-xs-9).
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<form>
<div class="form-group">
<label class="col-xs-3 control-label" for="HoursPerWeek">Hours Per Week</label>
<div class="col-xs-9">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" id="BoxOne" class="form-control">
<span class="input-group-addon">-</span>
<input type="text" id="BoxTwo" class="form-control">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</form>
Solution without the bootstrap grid
<form class="inline">
<div>
<label for="HoursPerWeek">Hours Per Week</label>
<input type="text" id="BoxOne">
<label for="#">-</label>
<input type="text" id="BoxTwo">
</div>
</form>
Solution using the bootstrap grid
<form>
<div class="form-group">
<label class="col-md-3" for="HoursPerWeek">Hours Per Week</label>
<input class="col-md-3" type="text" id="BoxOne">
<label class="col-md-3" for="#">-</label>
<input class="col-md-3" type="text" id="BoxTwo">
</div>
</form>
I have 3 columns in my form for inputting the user's phone:
<div class="col-md-5">
<label class="control-label">Phone</label>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">
<label for="phone_code" class="sr-only"><fmt:message key="phoneCode"/></label>
<select class="form-control" name="phoneCode" id="phone_code">
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
</select>
</div>
<span class="col-md-2 text-center">-</span>
<div class="col-md-6">
<label for="phone_number" class="sr-only">phone number</label>
<input type="tel" class="form-control" name="phoneNumber" id="phone_number" dir="LTR" value="${phoneNumber}">
</div>
</div>
</div>
http://www.bootply.com/jgFqaA4r6o
When I include the bootstrap css for rtl:
https://github.com/morteza/bootstrap-rtl
this flips the order of the columns, which in most cases is the desired result. However, I would like the phone input columns to remain in the same order (unaltered).
Including the pull-left class to the first two columns fixes the problem but causes errors when resizing (specifically, shrinking) the screen.
I have tried using/learning the col--pull-/col--push- classes but I couldn't figure out how to make them work here.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
I am also open to changing the general layout if there are improvements on that as well.
Thank you.
I changed the html and used a small "hack" to solve this.
There is still probably a better solution out there. This is my html:
<div class="col-md-5">
<div class="col-sm-4 col-xs-12 pull-left">
<label for="phone_code" class="control-label">phone code</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control">
</div>
<div class="col-sm-8 col-xs-12">
<label for="phone_number" class="control-label">phone number</label>
<input type="tel" class="form-control">
</div>
</div>
http://www.bootply.com/tIW6xBHVGB
The "hack" is the "col-xs-12" class added to the <div> elements. If not added, the divs don't expand to take up the entire row as they should due to the "pull-left" class.
I'm open to hearing other suggestions.
I'm currently switching my website over to Bootstrap 3.0. I'm having an issue with form input and text formatting. What worked in Bootstrap 2 does not work in Bootstrap 3.
How can I get text on the same line before and after a form input? I have narrowed it down to a problem with the 'form-control" class in the Bootstrap 3 version of the example.
How would I go about getting all the text and input on one line? I would like the bootstrap 3 example to look like the bootstrap 2 example in the jsfiddle.
JS fiddle example
<div class="container ">
<form>
<h3> Format used to look like this in Bootstrap 2 </h3>
<div class="row ">
<label for="return1"><b>Return:</b></label>
<input id="return1" name='return1' class=" input input-sm" style="width:150px"
type="text" value='8/28/2013'>
<span id='return1' style='color:blue'> +/- 14 Days</span>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<h3> BootStrap 3 Version </h3>
<div class="row">
<label for="return2"><b>Return:</b></label>
<input id="return2" name='return2' class="form-control input input-sm" style="width:150px"
type="text" value='8/28/2013'>
<span id='return2' style='color:blue'> +/- 14 Days</span>
</div>
</form>
Update:
I change the code to this which works but having trouble with alignment now. Any ideas?
<div class="form-group">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-3">
<label for="class_type"><h2><span class=" label label-primary">Class Type</span></h2></label>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-2">
<select name="class_type" id="class_type" class=" form-control input-lg" style="width:200px" autocomplete="off">
<option >Economy</option>
<option >Premium Economy</option>
<option >Club World</option>
<option >First Class</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
Straight from documentation http://getbootstrap.com/css/#forms-horizontal.
Use Bootstrap's predefined grid classes to align labels and groups of form controls in a horizontal layout by adding .form-horizontal to the form (which doesn't have to be a <form>). Doing so changes .form-groups to behave as grid rows, so no need for .row.
Sample:
<form class="form-horizontal">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="inputEmail3" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Email</label>
<div class="col-sm-10">
<input type="email" class="form-control" id="inputEmail3" placeholder="Email">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="inputPassword3" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Password</label>
<div class="col-sm-10">
<input type="password" class="form-control" id="inputPassword3" placeholder="Password">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-10">
<div class="checkbox">
<label>
<input type="checkbox"> Remember me
</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-10">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Sign in</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
I would put each element that you want inline inside a separate col-md-* div within your row. Or force your elements to display inline. The form-control class displays block because that's the way bootstrap thinks it should be done.
What you need is the .form-inline class. You need to be careful though, with the new .form.inline class you have to specify the width for each control.
Take a look at this
None of these worked for me, had to use .form-control-static class.
http://getbootstrap.com/css/#forms-controls-static
You can do it like this:
<form class="form-horizontal" role="form">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="inputType" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Label</label>
<div class="col-sm-4">
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="input" placeholder="Input text">
</div>
</div>
</form>
Fiddle
just give mother of div "class="col-lg-12""
<div class="form-group">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-3">
<label for="class_type"><h2><span class=" label label-primary">Class Type</span></h2></label>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-2">
<select name="class_type" id="class_type" class=" form-control input-lg" style="width:200px" autocomplete="off">
<option >Economy</option>
<option >Premium Economy</option>
<option >Club World</option>
<option >First Class</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
it will be
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-lg-12">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-3">
<label for="class_type"><h2><span class=" label label-primary">Class Type</span></h2></label>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-2">
<select name="class_type" id="class_type" class=" form-control input-lg" style="width:200px" autocomplete="off">
<option >Economy</option>
<option >Premium Economy</option>
<option >Club World</option>
<option >First Class</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
</div>
The way I solved it was simply to add an override for all my textboxes on the main css of my site, as so:
.form-control {
display:initial !important;
}
In Bootstrap 4 for Horizontal element you can use .row with .col-*-* classes to specify the width of your labels and controls. see this link.
And if you want to display a series of labels, form controls, and buttons on a single horizontal row you can use .form-inline for more info this link
all please check the updated code as we have to use
form-control-static not only form-control
http://jsfiddle.net/tusharD/58LCQ/34/
thanks with regards
Or you can do this:
<table>
<tr>
<td><b>Return:</b></td>
<td><input id="return1" name='return1'
class=" input input-sm" style="width:150px"
type="text" value='8/28/2013'></td>
</tr>
</table>
I tried every one of the suggestions above and none of them worked. I don't want to pick a fixed number of columns in the 12 column grid. I want the prompt, and the input right after it, and I want the columns to stretch as needed.
Yes, I know, that is against what bootstrap is all about. And you should NEVER use a table. Because DIV is so much better than tables. But the problem is that tables, rows, and cells actually WORK.
YES - I REALLY DO know that there are CSS zealots, and the knee-jerk reaction is never never never use TABLE, TR, and TD. Yes, I do know that DIV class="table" with DIV class="row" and DIV class="cell" is much much better. Except when it doesn't work, and there are many cases. I don't believe that people should blindly ignore those situations. There are times that the TABLE/TR/TD will work just fine, and there is not reason to use a more complicated and more fragile approach just because it is considered more elegant. A developer should understand what the benefits of the various approaches are, and the tradeoffs, and there is no absolute rule that DIVs are better.
"Case in point - based on this discussion I converted a few existing tds and trs to divs. 45 minutes messing about with it trying to get everything to line up next to each other and I gave up. TDs back in 10 seconds later - works - straight away - on all browsers, nothing more to do. Please try to make me understand - what possible justification do you have for wanting me to do it any other way!" See [https://stackoverflow.com/a/4278073/1758051]
And this: "
Layout should be easy. The fact that there are articles written on how to achieve a dynamic three column layout with header and footer in CSS shows that it is a poor layout system. Of course you can get it to work, but there are literally hundreds of articles online about how to do it. There are pretty much no such articles for a similar layout with tables because it's patently obvious. No matter what you say against tables and in favor of CSS, this one fact undoes it all: a basic three column layout in CSS is often called "The Holy Grail"." [https://stackoverflow.com/a/4964107/1758051]
I have yet to see a way to force DIVs to always line up in a column in all situations. I keep getting shown trivial examples that don't really run into the problems. "Responsive" is about providing a way that they will not always line up in a column. However, if you really want a column, you can waste hours trying to get DIV to work. Sometimes, you need to use appropriate technology no matter what the zealots say.