My problem is the following:
I have a contact form with multiple input fields. The input fields are on a normal page round about half of the div that they are in. Now when observing my webpage through an browser the problem occurs. The page itself can get smaller than the input fields.
What I would like is the following:
That it resizes to fit in the div instead of overlapping/overflowing outside of the div.
I've tried searching it here on SOF and on google but either I'm searching for the wrong thing or I just can't find it.
HTML:
<div id="contact-formulier">
<form method="post" action="contact.php">
<label>Naam*</label>
<input name="naam" placeholder="Graham Neal" required>
</form>
</div>
CSS:
input, textarea {
width:439px;
height:27px;
background:#efefef;
border:1px solid #dedede;
padding:10px;
margin-top:3px;
font-size:0.9em;
color:#3a3a3a;
-moz-border-radius:5px;
-webkit-border-radius:5px;
border-radius:5px;
}
textarea {
height:213px;
}
input:focus, textarea:focus {
border:1px solid #97d6eb;
}
Set the form width to 100% then the input and textarea width to around 90%. I hope this is the result you are seeking for. Just like that:
form {
width: 100%;
float: left;
}
/* Style the text boxes */
input, textarea {
width:90%;
height:27px;
background:#efefef;
border:1px solid #dedede;
padding:10px;
...
}
With the width fixed as you put in the css, it's not going to happen.
You could use percentage to obtain this but they don't work perfectly every time in my experience, especially if you do something a little more complex than the simple exercise of your fiddle or if you embed the example into something else.
Best way is using jquery to force the width:
$(document).ready(function() {
$(window).resize(function() {
$('input').width( $('#contact-formulier').width() - 22);
});
});
See: http://jsfiddle.net/Lnnxsrwj/2/
Related
I made the input box bigger (like 500 by 500 pixels), but the text would start from the middle, not the top. I tried putting the padding to zero but it doesn't seem to work. This is under the form tag.
Here's my html code:
<form>
<input class="postbox" value="Hello."><br>
</form>
and this is my css code:
.postbox{
padding:0;
height:500;
width:500;}
you stretched the input-line to 500px, not the form.
As Alvaro Menéndez noticed, you might want to use a textarea, not an input.
Use something like
<form>
<textarea class="postbox" placeholder="Hello"></textarea><br>
</form>
<style>
.postbox {
padding:0;
height:500px;
width:500px;
}
</style>
http://pascha.org/test/2.php
Something like this might do it, i have removed the height and padded the input out
.postbox{
padding-bottom:450px;
width:500px;
}
You can do that by using the padding-bottom property
HTML
<input type="text" value="test"/>
CSS
input {
padding: 10px 10px 100px;
width: 300px;
border: 1px solid red;
}
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/LeoAref/ko9ahz0L/
I have a search box on-top of the page I am making, I have been trying to make the page cross-browser friendly as well as have a flexible page resolution.
I have come across this problem
http://imgur.com/gS3q02W
The button and the input box don't line up horizontally. No matter what I change it to one is always different than the other on the other browser.
Does anyone know of a cross-browser friendly solution?
html
<div id='search'>
<form>
<input class='search' type="text" placeholder="what would you like to find?" required>
<input class='button' type="button" value="search">
</form>
</div>
css
#search {
padding-left:200px;
margin-right:5px;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}
.search {
margin-top:5px;
padding:4px 15px;
width:250px;
background:#FFF;
border:none;
color:#232d38;
}
.button {
position:relative;
padding:4px 15px;
left:-4px;
border:none;
background-color:#FFF;
color:#232d38;
}
.button:hover {
border:none;
background-color:#FFF;
color:#000;
}
I have found the solution.
The problem is down to the browser’s default styles. Mozilla, in their infinite wisdom, have chosen to put this line in their CSS:
button, input[type="reset"], input[type="button"], input[type="submit"] {
line-height:normal !important;
}
In Firefox, buttons get an extra 2px padding. In all other browsers they don't. So it is impossible to make them match using just padding.
You have to set top and bottom padding to 0px, and use height: 25px; vertical-align: middle; to make up for the loss of padding.
I was having this same issue, and used John's answer above to come up with a solution without having to use the height and vertical-align properties.
In my reset styling I basically made it so that all inputs had normal line height so that Chrome would render the same as Firefox and IE. The important addition between this and John's code above as targeting the general input selector:
button, input[type="reset"], input[type="button"], input[type="submit"], input
{
line-height:normal !important;
}
I've looked around a bit but can only find JS solutions to this.
Is there a way with CSS to detect if an input has any text entered?
What I'm doing is basically this (cut out the irrelevant code for this question):
.search-form input[type="text"] {
width: 0 !important;
}
.search-form input[type="text"]:focus {
width: 100% !important;
}
Essentially, clicking on the label expands the input to 100% of the page width. This works fine, but when you enter text and click off the input, it shrinks back to width:0 - therefore hiding the inputted text. Is there a way with CSS to prevent this behaviour and keep it at width:100% like when the input is :focus when there's text inputted?
Try adding the "required" property to the text field in the HTML, and then add this to the CSS:
.search-form input[type="text"]:valid {
width: 100% !important;
}
I would probably try to avoid all those !importants though.
Not sure if it will work for your specific use case, but you could achieve the effect with a fake input, using contenteditable
Working Example
.fakeInput {
border: 1px solid red;
display:inline;
padding:2px; /* optional */
}
.fakeInput:focus {
display:block;
border: 2px solid blue;
width:100%;
height:1em;
}
<div class="search-form">
<div class="fakeInput" contenteditable="true"></div>
</div>
I have an input field 400px width. When I hover it, width will increase on 500px, when I focus it, width will stay increased on 500px. Than I write down some text, click away and input field come back to 400px width. I want to stay input field on width 500px after writing down some text into the field and click away, or press TAB.
I have it like this:
input { background-color:#fff; width:400px; ....... }
input:hover { opacity:0.9; filter:alpha(opacity=90); width:500px;}
input:focus { color:#ff6b4f; box-shadow: 0 0 8px #fff; width:500px;}
input:visited { color:#ff6b4f; box-shadow: 0 0 8px #fff; width:500px;}
This does not work. I do not know how can I do that correctly.
In your case you should use javascript. You can handle blur event of your input and check if it's empty or not. If it's not add some additional class which change width to 500px;
You can see working (jQuery) example here
Also :visited pseudo-class works only for links.
The :visited attribute only applies to links, so you'll have to use Javascript instead:
CSS:
input {
width:200px;
border:1px solid #ccc;
background-color:#eee;
padding:0.25em 0.5em;
}
input:hover, input:focus, input.visited {
width:300px;
}
HTML:
<form>
<input name="x" onchange="this.className=(this.value=='')?'':'visited';" />
</form>
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/e77CG/
I have a website design that includes text input fields that look like this:
Input Field http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4453/picture1ts2.png
I'm wondering what the best solution for creating this input field is.
One idea I have is to always have a div around the input with a background image and all the borders disabled on the input field and specified width in pixels, such as:
<div class="borderedInput"><input type="text" /></div>
I have tried to discourage them from using this format, but they won't be discouraged, so it looks like I'm going to have to do it.
Is this best or is there another way?
--
Trial:
I tried the following:
<style type="text/css">
input.custom {
background-color: #fff;
background:url(/images/input-bkg-w173.gif) no-repeat;
width:173px;
height:28px;
padding:8px 5px 4px 5px;
border:none;
font-size:10px;
}
</style>
<input type="text" class="custom" size="12" />
but in IE (6 & 7) it does the following when you type more than the width:
Over Length http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/1417/picture2kp8.png
I'd do it this way:
<style type="text/css">
div.custom {
background:url(/images/input-bkg-w173.gif) no-repeat;
padding:8px 5px 4px 5px;
}
div.custom input {
background-color: #fff;
border:none;
font-size:10px;
}
</style>
<div class="custom"><input type="text" class="custom" size="12" /></div>
You just have to adjust the padding values so everything fits correctly.
It is - in my eyes- definitely the best solution since in any other case you're working with a whole input field. And the whole input field is - by definition - a box where users can enter text.
If you can rely on JavaScript you could wrap such div-Elements around your input fields programatically.
Edit:
With jQuery you could do it this way:
$( 'input.custom' ).wrap( '<div class="custom"></div>' );
CSS:
div.custom {
background:url(/images/input-bkg-w173.gif) no-repeat;
padding:8px 5px 4px 5px;
}
input.custom {
background-color: #fff;
border:none;
font-size:10px;
}
And your HTML:
<input class="custom" ... />
You don't need the div element, you can assign a background to the input directly.
Edit: Here is the working code. I tested it, but you'll have to adjust it for your needs. As far as I can tell, everything here is needed.
input {
background: #FFF url(test.png) no-repeat bottom right;
width: 120px;
height: 20px;
line-height:20px;
padding:0;
text-indent:3px;
margin:0;
border: none;
overflow:hidden;
}
Edit2: I'm not quite sure why I'm getting downvoted, but this method should work unless you need an image bigger than the input element itself. In that case, you should use the extra div element. However, if the image is the same size as the input, there is no need for the extra markup.
Edit3: Ok, after bobince pointed out a problem, I'm getting a little closer. This will be work in IE6&7 and it's close in FF, but I'm still working on that part.
input {
background: #FFF url(test.png) no-repeat 0px 0px;
background-attachment:fixed;
width: 120px;
height: 20px;
line-height:20px;
padding:0px;
text-indent:3px;
margin:0;
border: none;
}
body>input {
background-position:13px 16px;
}
Edit4: Ok, I think I got it this time, but it requires use of a CSS3 selector, so it won't validate as CSS 2.1.
input {
background: #FFF url(test.png) no-repeat 0px 0px;
background-attachment:fixed;
width: 120px;
height: 20px;
line-height:20px;
padding:0px;
text-indent:3px;
margin:0;
border: none;
}
body>input {
background-position:13px 16px;
}
body>input:enabled {
background-position:9px 10px;
}
body>input will target everything except for IE6, body>input:enabled will target any form elements that aren't disabled for all browsers except for IE 6, 7, & 8. However, because :enabled is a CSS3 selector, it doesn't validate as CSS2.1. I wasn't able to find an appropriate CSS2 selector that would allow me to separate IE7 from the other browsers. If not validating (yet, until the validator switches to CSS3) is a problem for you, then I think your only option is the extra div element.
Have you evaluated using background image like this:
<style type="text/css">
input{
background-color: #AAAAAA;
background-image: url('http://mysite.com/input.gif');
border: 0px;
font-family: verdana;
font-size: 10px;
color: #0000FF;
}
I have done this a few times. I have the background image inside a div and use css to position the input field accordingly.
Have a peek at the following site I created that used this technique and use the code: http://www.ukoffer.com/ (Right hand side Newsletter)
AFAIK, the background scrolling problem can be solved either in Firefox and friends, OR Internet Exploder; but not make everyone happy at once.
I would normally have said to style the input directly, but now that I think of it that div example doesn't sound too bad and should take care of your background image scrolling problem.
In that case you'd set a div as position:relative, and put the input inside it with proper padding and width (or 100% width if padding is 0), background transparent, and put an image on the div.
okoman has gotten the CSS aspect correct. May I suggest using a <label> to improve the semantic structure of the markup?
<label id="for-field-name" for="field-name">
<span class="label-title">Field Name <em class="required">*</em></span>
<input id="field-name" name="field-name" type="text" class="text-input" />
</label>
<style type="text/css">
label, span.label-title { display: block; }
</style>
Not only is this more accessible, but it provides numerous hooks that you can use for any type of DOM manipulation, validation or field-specific styling in the future.
Edit: If you don't want the label title displayed for some reason, you can give it a class of 'accessibility' and set the class to display: none; in the CSS. This will allow screen readers to understand the input but hide it from regular users.
The easiest way to get rid of the overflow without JavaScript is simple:
Create a 3 spans, and set their heights to the height of the
image.
Cut the image into 3 parts, ensuring you cut the image such that
the left and right round parts will be on the 1st and 3rd images
respectively.
Set the background of the 1st span to the image
with the left border, and set it to no-repeat.
Set the background
of the third span to the image with the right border and set it to
no-repeat.
Put the input inside the middle span, remembering to
set its height to the height of the spans, and its background to the
2nd image, and repeat-x only.
That will ensure that the input
will seem to expand horizontally once the input is being filled. No
overlapping, and no JS needed.
HTML
Assuming the image height is 60px, the width of the first and third span is 30px,
<span id="first">nbsp;</span><br />
<span id="second"><input type="text" /></span><br />
<span id="third">nbsp;</span>
CSS
span#first{background:url('firstimage') no-repeat; height:60px; width:30px;}
span#third{background:url('thirdimage') no-repeat; height:60px; width:30px;}
span#second input{background:url('second image') repeat-x; height:60px;}
That should resolve your issue.