Display span over input with HTML+CSS - html

Question

I want to display a span element over an input element with CSS. How can I do this. My current code:
<input type="url" placeholder="e.g. www.google.com" />
<span>http://</span>
How can I display the span element on the input element so that the users know there is no need to enter http:// so it would look like if there's already a value in but then it is the span element on the input? I assume I can do that with CSS positioning.
I cannot use placeholder as I don't want it to be removed.

Answer 1

As you have mentioned you need to use positioning and wrap your input with span into div or some other element.
.wrapper {
position: relative;
}
input {
padding-left: 48px;
}
.wrapper span {
position: absolute;
left: 2px;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<input type="url" placeholder="e.g. www.google.com" />
<span>http://</span>
</div>
Example

Answer 2

This is a bit of an old post, but there is a more simple way of doing this and without using positioning. Wrap each element of the form in a list item and set the display to 'inline-block' and the display of the span to 'block' like this -
li{
display: inline-block;
}
li span{
display: block;
}
You would then need to swap the order of the html elements like so -
<span>http://</span>
<input type="url" placeholder="e.g. www.google.com" />
You could however leave it the same if you wanted the span to display on the bottom of the input element.

Answer 3

something like this: fiddle
* {
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}
.row {
position:relative;
}
.row span {
position:absolute;
left:5px;
top:5px;
}
.row input {
padding-left: 40px;
line-height: 16px;
}
<div class="row">
<span>http://</span>
<input type="url" placeholder="e.g. www.google.com" />
</div>