I do not want to use hardcoded widths and table tags to generate the layout I want to achieve, but my CSS skills aren't developed quite yet. My layout is as follows:
<div id="container">
<div id="DataType">
Type of Data Request <input type="text" />
</div>
<div id="Arguments" >
Arguments <textarea name="arguments" rows="4" cols="45" ></textarea>
</div>
<div id="TargetEnvironment" >
Target Environment <input type="text" />
</div>
<div id="SubmitButton">
<button id="btnSubmit">Submit Request</button>
</div>
</div>
and I would like to have it behave a certain way with CSS. I can achieve it with tables and hard coded margins, but not with proper CSS. Here is what it currently looks like, and what I want it to look like
Here's a solution using float.
#container {
width: 500px;
}
label {
margin-top: 1em;
display: block;
vertical-align: top;
clear: right;
overflow: auto;
}
input, textarea {
width: 300px;
float: right;
padding: 2px;
}
button {
float: right;
}
<div id="container">
<label id="DataType">
Type of Data Request <input type="text" />
</label>
<label id="Arguments" >
Arguments <textarea name="arguments" rows="4" cols="45" ></textarea>
</label>
<label id="TargetEnvironment" >
Target Environment <input type="text" />
</label>
<label id="SubmitButton">
<button id="btnSubmit">Submit Request</button>
</label>
</div>
You can set the width and use float:right on your inputs.
I don't see any problem in using margins or paddings to separate the lines.
Another tip: use the label tag for the labels of your form.
Related
I have a simple form like this:
<form method="post" action="/registration">
<label for="alias">Alias:</label>
<input type="text" name="alias" id="alias">
<br>
<label for="email">E-mail:</label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email">
<br>
<input type="button" value="registger">
</form>
It works fine, but the I have found out that <br> shouldn't be used for this purpose, as it is only intended to be used with text.
If I remove the <br>, then everything will be rendered on a single line, which I do not want.
What is the correct, most clean way to display name-input pairs in a form with CSS, like this:
Alias: [__field__]
E-mail: [__field__]
[SUBMIT BUTTON]
I'd use divs, which will put the labels and inputs into their own block.
<form method="post" action="/registration">
<div>
<label for="alias">Alias:</label>
<input type="text" name="alias" id="alias">
</div>
<div>
<label for="email">E-mail:</label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email">
</div>
<input type="button" value="registger">
</form>
I typically would put the input inside of the label (so when you click the label, it focuses the input), and then tell the label to be display: block;.
So,
<form method="post" action="/registration">
<label for="alias">
Alias: <input type="text" name="alias" id="alias">
</label>
<label for="email">
E-mail: <input type="text" name="email" id="email">
</label>
<input type="button" value="registger">
</form>
Then do:
label[for], // just selects labels that have the "for" attribute.
input[type="button"] {
display: block;
// And a bottom margin for good measure :)
margin: 0 0 10px; // shorthand for margin-bottom
}
And that should get you what you want.
You could use divs with corresponding CSS:
.myFrm {
width: 250px;
}
input[type=text] {
float: right;
}
.form-group {
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.form-group::after {
content: "";
clear: both;
display: table;
}
<form method="post" action="/registration">
<div class="myFrm">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="alias">Alias:</label>
<input type="text" name="alias" id="alias">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="email">E-mail:</label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email">
</div>
</div>
<input type="button" value="registger">
</form>
I would just use a bit of css to do the trick. Give each of the labels a display:block;
label {
display: block;
}
You can use container divs around the label and input to group them or else make sure "display: block" is added to the label and input elements.
If you need the label to the left of the input then wrap both with a container div and to give you more control on the positioning you could float the label and input to the left or use flexbox.
You ask:
What is the correct, most clean way to display name-input pairs in a
form with CSS
I interpret your question to be related to matters of performance, code efficiency and maintainability. Since just changing the HTML structure does not address responsiveness in different view-ports, adding bits of CSS may have render blocking features but it does nevertheless makes your application ready for mobile responsiveness. This is how I see it:
form {
display: inline-block;
}
label {
margin: 10px;
font-weight: 600;
}
input{
position: absolute;
left: 15%;
}
input[type=button]{
top: 4%;
}
Note that for mobile viewports you may want to adjust the relative measures with media queries. So the question here is not about writing less code but the main requirements of the application.
Get a plunk for this here
What you have there is a list.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Introduction_to_HTML/HTML_text_fundamentals#Lists
http://reisio.com/temp/form1.html
In my project, I have a dialog div with four labels, four text input, one submit button and one shutdow button.
I want it appears like this:
AAAAAAAA:input text
BBBBBBBB:input text
CCCCCCCC:input text
DDDDDDDD:input text
submit shutdown
But acturally, it does not appear format, it likes this:
AAAAAAAA:input text
BBBBBBBB:
input text
CCCCCCCC:input text
DDDDDDDD:
submit input text
shutdown
It is ugly, I don't want it like that.
Here is my css and html code:
<style>
.addDiv{width:25%;height:20%;position:absolute;top:35%;left:35%;border:2px solid #ffffff;color:white;display:none;border-radius:15px;background:rgba(0,0,0,0.7);}
.firDiv{height:80%;width:100%}
.firDiv label{float:left;margin-left:10%;margin-top:2%;width:20%}
.firDiv input{float:right;border:1px solid #99ccff;background:rgba(0,0,0,0.35);margin-right:10%;
margin-top:2%;color:white;width:45%}
.secDiv{height:20%;text-align:center;width:100%;margin-top:5%}
</style>
<div id="addCnt" class="addDiv">
<form action="mng.php?act=add&table=IDC" method="POST">
<div class="firDiv">
<label>AAAAAAA:</label><input type="text" name="prdSty"><br />
<label>BBBBBBB:</label><input type="text" name="diffLvl"><br />
<label>CCCCCCC:</label><input type="text" name="repTm"><br />
<label>DDDDDDD:</label><input type="text" name="fixTm"><br />
</div>
<div class="secDiv">
<input type="submit" value="add" /><input id="sdnBt" type="button" value="shutdown" >
</div>
</form>
</div>
Who can help me?
may be something like this?
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.firDiv label {
padding: 5px;
text-align: right;
float: left;
width: 17%;
}
.firDiv .control {
float: left;
width: 83%;
}
.form-group {
clear: both
}
.secDiv {
margin-left: 16%;
padding-top:10px;
}
<form action="mng.php?act=add&table=IDC" method="POST">
<div class="firDiv">
<div class='form-group'>
<label>AAAAAAA:</label>
<div class='control'><input type="text" name="prdSty"></div>
</div>
<div class='form-group'>
<label>BBBBBBB:</label>
<div class='control'><input type="text" name="prdSty"></div>
</div>
<div class='form-group'>
<label>CCCCCCCC:</label>
<div class='control'><input type="text" name="prdSty"></div>
</div>
<div class='form-group'>
<label>DDDDDDDDD:</label>
<div class='control'><input type="text" name="prdSty"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="secDiv">
<input type="submit" value="add" />
<input id="sdnBt" type="button" value="shutdown">
</div>
</form>
Two things you need to do here. First you have to clear the floats after the first Div completed. Second is apply float left to your input fields.
.firDiv input{float:left;border:1px solid #99ccff;background:rgba(0,0,0,0.35);margin-right:10%;
margin-top:2%;color:white;width:45%;}
.secDiv{height:20%;text-align:center;width:100%;margin-top:10%; clear:both;}
I have applied clear:both in secDiv and float:left in firDiv.
DEMO
add this to your css fiddle
.secDiv input {
width: 50%;
}
Rather try adding each input and label to their own div, something like this:
https://jsfiddle.net/ba0cL61b/5/
What this does is adds a div .row inside your firDiv div and inside the .row adds a div for your label and one for your input. So it would look like this:
<div class="row">
<div class="label">
<label>AAAAAAA:</label>
</div>
<div class="input">
<input type="text" name="prdSty">
</div>
</div>
This is a bit easier to understand and style.
in html/css i have simply two form and i want to set that to single row as inline widthout using float. you can see this ONLINE DEMO
in this below code i want to set display:inline to have single row as two div. like with this screen shot:
HTML:
<div class='single-page'>
<div id="verification-panel">
<form>
<fieldset>
<legend>verification code</legend>
<label>Mobile Number:</label>
<input type="text" class="inputs" placeholder="EX:">
<span class="help-block"></span>
<button type="button" class="btn">Submit</button>
</fieldset>
</form>
</div>
<div id="activation-panel">
<form>
<fieldset>
<legend>Active Acount</legend>
<label>Verfication code:</label>
<input type="text" class="inputs" placeholder="Verficcation code">
<span class="help-block"></span>
<button type="button" class="btn">Submit</button>
</fieldset>
</form>
</div>
</div>
use display:inline-block;
#verification-panel,#activation-panel{
display:inline-block;
}
Copy this code to your CSS section:
.single-page {
display: inline-block;
width: 769px;
}
.verification-panel,
.activation-panel { display: inline-block; }
To get the forms inline, apart from declaring the display: inline-block to both classes, you have to define a width for the parent container big enough to let them sit besides each other.
Here is a demo
.single-page{
display: inline;
width: 100%;
}
#verification-panel,#activation-panel{
display: inline-block;
width: 49%; // because of margin or etc.
}
#verification-panel,#activation-panel{
display:inline-block; width:250px;
}
I want to have two elements stay on the same row.
Right now I have this code:
<fieldset data-role="controlgroup" data-type="horizontal">
<label for="textinput">Text:</label>
<input type="text" id="textinput"/>
<input type="button" id="searchbutton" data-icon="search" data-iconpos="notext" onclick="function()"/>
</fieldset>
This works. The label, the input field and the button will all be on the same row as long as you view it in fullscreen in your computer browser. But if we make the window smaller, all three elements will be shown on one row each. Is there any way to make the label appear on one row, and the input field + button on the row below?
You need to override the jQM enhancements:
http://jsfiddle.net/E4EVT/10/
http://jsfiddle.net/E4EVT/36/ (Using the grid layout)
http://jsfiddle.net/E4EVT/42/ (Using the table layout)
JS
$('#textinput2').css('width','60%').css('display','inline');
HTML
<div>
<!-- use span instead of label -->
<span>Text:</span>
<input type="text" id="textinput2"/>
<br />
<input type="button" id="searchbutton2" data-icon="search" data-iconpos="notext" onclick="function()"/>
</div>
I think you might want to look into the grid layout jQM offers
http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0rc1/docs/content/content-grids.html
For Jquery Mobile 1.2.0
<div class="ui-grid-a" >
<div class="ui-block-a"><input type="text" /></div>
<div class="ui-block-b"><input type="text" /></div>
</div>
you need to add attribute data-inline="true" to the input elements.
CSS:
label {
display: block;
}
input {
padding: 2px;
width: 100px;
}
.wrap {
width: 212px; /* the width of twice your input (plus borders) */
}
And your HTML:
<fieldset data-role="controlgroup" data-type="horizontal">
<label for="textinput">Text:</label>
<div class="wrap">
<input type="text" id="textinput"/>
<input type="button" id="searchbutton" data-icon="search" data-iconpos="notext" onclick="function()"/>
</div>
</fieldset>
http://jsfiddle.net/ahallicks/BWsdk/
Edit:
Sorry, misread your question! If you want them all on the same line to start with use the following CSS:
label {
float: left;
margin-right: 12px;
}
input {
padding: 2px;
width: 100px;
}
.wrap {
float: left;
width: 212px; /* the width of twice your input (plus borders) */
}
http://jsfiddle.net/ahallicks/E4EVT/
Let's say I have an html snippet like this:
<div style="width:300px;">
<label for="MyInput">label text</label>
<input type="text" id="MyInput" />
</div>
This isn't my exact code, but the important thing is there's a label and a text input on the same line in a fixed-width container. How can I style the input to fill the remaining width of the container without wrapping and without knowing the size of the label?
Here is a simple and clean solution without using JavaScript or table layout hacks. It is similar to this answer: Input text auto width filling 100% with other elements floating
It is important to wrap the input field with a span which is display:block. Next thing is that the button has to come first and the the input field second.
Then you can float the button to the right and the input field fills the remaining space.
form {
width: 500px;
overflow: hidden;
background-color: yellow;
}
input {
width: 100%;
}
span {
display: block;
overflow: hidden;
padding-right:10px;
}
button {
float: right;
}
<form method="post">
<button>Search</button>
<span><input type="text" title="Search" /></span>
</form>
A simple fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/v7YTT/90/
Update 1: If your website is targeted towards modern browsers only, I suggest using flexible boxes. Here you can see the current support.
Update 2: This even works with multiple buttons or other elements that share the full with with the input field. Here is an example.
as much as everyone hates tables for layout, they do help with stuff like this, either using explicit table tags or using display:table-cell
<div style="width:300px; display:table">
<label for="MyInput" style="display:table-cell; width:1px">label text</label>
<input type="text" id="MyInput" style="display:table-cell; width:100%" />
</div>
I suggest using Flexbox:
Be sure to add the proper vendor prefixes though!
form {
width: 400px;
border: 1px solid black;
display: flex;
}
input {
flex: 2;
}
input, label {
margin: 5px;
}
<form method="post">
<label for="myInput">Sample label</label>
<input type="text" id="myInput" placeholder="Sample Input"/>
</form>
Please use flexbox for this. You have a container that is going to flex its children into a row. The first child takes its space as needed. The second one flexes to take all the remaining space:
<div style="display:flex;flex-direction:row">
<label for="MyInput">label text</label>
<input type="text" id="MyInput" style="flex:1" />
</div>
Easiest way to achieve this would be :
CSS :
label{ float: left; }
span
{
display: block;
overflow: hidden;
padding-right: 5px;
padding-left: 10px;
}
span > input{ width: 100%; }
HTML :
<fieldset>
<label>label</label><span><input type="text" /></span>
<label>longer label</label><span><input type="text" /></span>
</fieldset>
Looks like : http://jsfiddle.net/JwfRX/
Very easy trick is using a CSS calc formula. All modern browsers, IE9, wide range of mobile browsers should support this.
<div style='white-space:nowrap'>
<span style='display:inline-block;width:80px;font-weight:bold'>
<label for='field1'>Field1</label>
</span>
<input id='field1' name='field1' type='text' value='Some text' size='30' style='width:calc(100% - 80px)' />
</div>
you can try this :
div#panel {
border:solid;
width:500px;
height:300px;
}
div#content {
height:90%;
background-color:#1ea8d1; /*light blue*/
}
div#panel input {
width:100%;
height:10%;
/*make input doesnt overflow inside div*/
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
/*make input doesnt overflow inside div*/
}
<div id="panel">
<div id="content"></div>
<input type="text" placeholder="write here..."/>
</div>
The answers given here are a bit outdated. So, here I'm with the easiest solution using modern flexbox.
.input-container{
display:flex;
}
input{
flex-grow: 1;
margin-left: 5px;
}
<div style="width:300px;">
<div class="input-container">
<label for="MyInput">label text: </label>
<input type="text" id="MyInput"/>
</div>
<div class="input-container">
<label for="MyInput2">Long label text: </label>
<input type="text" id="MyInput2" />
</div>
</div>
If you're using Bootstrap 4:
<form class="d-flex">
<label for="myInput" class="align-items-center">Sample label</label>
<input type="text" id="myInput" placeholder="Sample Input" class="flex-grow-1"/>
</form>
Better yet, use what's built into Bootstrap:
<form>
<div class="input-group">
<div class="input-group-prepend">
<label for="myInput" class="input-group-text">Default</label>
</div>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="myInput">
</div>
</form>
https://jsfiddle.net/nap1ykbr/