Positioning reCAPTCHA widget with CSS - html

Question

I'm trying to align the reCAPTCHA widget with my input fields, but styling .g-recaptcha doesn't seem to achieve much. Does anyone know of any selectors I can use?
Form HTML:
<div class="contact-form">
<form role="form" method="post" action="contact-form.php">
<label for="name"><span>Name</span><input type="text" class="input-field" name="name" required data-errormessage-value-missing="Please enter your name." /></label>
<label for="email"><span>Email</span><input type="email" class="input-field" name="email" required data-errormessage-value-missing="Please enter your email address." /></label>
<label for="message"><span>Message</span><textarea name="message" class="textarea-field" required data-errormessage-value-missing="Please enter your message."></textarea></label>
<span> </span>
<div id="recaptcha">
<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="6LcBawsTAAAAAKBPfGs1jApXNRLvR2MIPng0Fxol" style="margin: 0;"></div>
</div>
<label><span> </span><input type="submit" value="" class="submit-button" /></label>
</form>
</div>
CSS:
.contact-form {
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
max-width: 600px;
font-family: 'LinotypeUniversW01-Thin_723604', Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 20px;
}
.contact-form label {
display: block;
margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;
}
.contact-form label > span {
width: 100px;
text-align: right;
float: left;
padding-top: 8px;
padding-right: 20px;
}
.contact-form input, .contact-form textarea {
margin-bottom: 15px;
padding: 10px;
border: none;
}
.contact-form input.input-field {
width: 70%;
height: 20px;
font-size: 18px;
}
.contact-form .textarea-field {
width: 70%;
height: 250px;
font-size: 18px;
}
textarea {
resize: none;
}
textarea:focus, input:focus {
outline: 0;
}
#recaptcha {
width: 304px;
margin: 0;
}
.g-recaptcha {
text-align: left;
}
input.submit-button {
background-image: url("../img/submit-button.jpg");
width: 225px;
height: 60px;
border: none;
}
Any help would be really appreciated!

Answer 1

Just modify your existing CSS with this:
.contact-form label, #recaptcha {
display: block;
margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;
}
.contact-form label > span, #recaptcha::before {
width: 100px;
text-align: right;
float: left;
padding-top: 8px;
padding-right: 20px;
content:""; //Make sure you add this as well
}
.contact-form .textarea-field, .g-recaptcha {
width: 70%;
height: 250px;
font-size: 18px;
display: inline-block;
}
Pseudo elements are used here so that you don't have to change your markup. :before works as a span inside the label thus providing uniformity in your html structure and hence solving the alignment issue

Answer 2

To align reCAPTCHA with rest of the other form-fields you have to change your DOM structure something like this:
HTML:
<label for="captcha">
<span> </span>
<div id="recaptcha">
...
then also change/write the CSS:
#recaptcha {
margin: 0px;
width: 304px;
position: relative;
float: left;
}
#recaptcha iframe {
position: absolute;
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
}
This will do the trick for you.