CSS input styling and overflow issues - html

Question

I would love to style my input field very similar to the divs I am building. However, I am unable to solve sizing issues.
Here is an example
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/kLwlm
And here is one more (with overflow:visible and fixed height)
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/Fxjzf
As you can see, it looks very different than the divs, and no matter what I tried, I could not make them look similar. First of all, I would love to make the input in a way that the text will pop put (overflow: visible? not working).
Secondly, the height should be similar to the divs. Setting the height and line-height properties does seem to effect the temporary text, but when it's clicked (and started to type) it breaks. (check second example)
Shortly, open to suggestions.

Answer 1

Try this solution here:
#import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Playfair+Display:400,700,900,400italic,700italic,900italic);
body {
margin: 100px;
background-color: #f7f7f7;
}
input{
border:0;
}
div, input{
font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif;
font-size: 40px;
background-color: #ff44ff;
width: 100%;
margin-top: 20px;
line-height: 40px;
}
div {
padding: 1px 0px 13px 2px;
color: #999;
}

Answer 2

I tried placing the input in div and then making the input background to transparent. YOu can play with the spacing to you liking, but it works http://codepen.io/anon/pen/Brcpl

Answer 3

I came up with this JSFiddle. I removed the line-height and positioned text using padding instead (that fixed the aligning of the input text).I also styled the placeholder. Here is a part of your CSS which I changed (do read the notes in it).
div, input{
font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif;
font-size: 40px;
background-color: #ff44ff;
width: 100%;
margin-top: 20px;
padding: 5px 0px 5px 0px;/*use padding to adapt the size*/
}
/*Change placeholder properties*/
#s::-webkit-input-placeholder {
color: black;
}
#s:-moz-placeholder { /* Firefox 18- */
color: black;
}
#s::-moz-placeholder { /* Firefox 19+ */
color: black;
}
#s:-ms-input-placeholder {
color: black;
}
PS: I do suggest styling the input-box differently so the visitors of your website notice it is actually a input-box.

Answer 4

What about this one: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/lcgAD
css
div input {
border: none;
font-size: 40px;
width: 100%;
background: transparent;
color: #000;
font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif;
}
div input:hover {
}
div {
color: #000;
background-color: #892;
height: 41px;
}
html
<div>
<input placeholder="Enter E-Mail ayxml#gmail.com" value="Enter E-Mail ayxml#gmail.com"/>
</div>