I am designing a web page with multi line Label name & input type file. i tried very hard to arrange in same line sequence but failed to do. Is there any idea about it?
please take a look enter link description here , it looks very ugly and
I am not really sure what you are looking for, but check out the jsfiddle changes I had made. I modified both CSS classes a little bit.
Have a look at this tutorial: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/forms/
You can check this fiddle with the following modifications:
removing deprecated attributes align from div and moving inlined CSS style (style attribute) to the CSS file
same for b element used for the text of the label: span is better, and it's already bold as its parent. Or font-weight: bold; would be added in CSS
display: inline-block; is used instead of floats. No need to clear them afterward. IE7 and 6 need a fix (in comment) if you support them. This allow you to give the element a width (like you could do with any block element) and still get them on the same horizontal line (like you could do with any inline element). You'll have 4px due to whitespace in your HTML code, because whitespace shows up in inline element like two span separated by a space but there's a fix.
HTML code
<div id="divid1">
<p>
<label class="labelname"> <span> select Image* :</span>
<input type="file" name="file1" class="hide-file" />
</label>
</p>
<p>
<label class="labelname"> <span>XML File* :</span>
<input type="file" name="file2" class="hide-file" />
</label>
</p>
</div>
CSS
#divid1 {
padding: 50px;
}
.labelname {
width: 100%; /* or at least approx. 380px */
min-height: 30px;
display: block;
background: lightgreen;
font-weight: bold;
margin-bottom: 2px;
}
/* Only for IE7 */
/*.labelname span,
.hide-file {
display: inline;
zoom: 1;
}
*/
.labelname span {
display: inline-block;
width: 140px;
text-align: right;
background-color: lightblue;
}
.hide-file {
display: inline-block;
opacity:0.5;
}
now it looks good :)
html
<div id="divid1" align="center" style="padding:50px;">
<div class="formrow">
<label class="labelname" for="hide-file">Select Image* :</label>
<input type="file" name="file1" class="hide-file" />
</div>
<div class="formrow">
<label class="labelname" for="hide-file">XML File* :</label>
<input type="file" name="file2" class="hide-file" />
</div>
</div>
css
.labelname {
background: green;
font: bold 2px;
margin-bottom: 2px;
font-weight: bold;
float: left
}
.hide-file {
position: relative;
opacity: 0.5;
float: right
}
.formrow {
width: 400px
}
Related
I've got a static site, which is all of a sudden displaying irregular headings. This is a single page with lots of JavaScript including tabular selections at the top of the page. The site worked just fine six months ago. Now I'm seeing unexplained mis-alignment of input elements on a half of the 12 different navigation tabs:
Decorative Ends
Round to Tapered
Bracing
Round to Square
Round to Flat
Airframe Cluster
The headings contained within a form:
<form id="dte_form">
<div class="containerLeft">...</div>
<div class="containerLeft">...</div>
<div class="containerLeft">
<label title="Data can.. [hover info]">Tube O.D. (mm): </label>
<input type="text" id="dteCutTubeOD" value="31.75" size="8">
<br>
<label>Amplitude (mm):</label>
<input type="text" id="dteAmplitude" value="25.4" size="8">
<br>
<label># of Cycles:</label>
<input type="text" id="dteNumOfCycles" value="3" size="8">
<br>
</div>
<div style="clear: both"></div>
<div class="containerLeft">
<input type="button"...>
<input type="button"...>
<input type="button"...>
<input type="button"...>
</div>
</form>
The CSS is nothing fancy:
.containerLeft {
float: left;
margin: 4px 20px;
}
.containerLeft label {
float: left;
height: 21px;
margin: 8px 5px 0 5px;
}
.containerLeft input[type=text] {
float: right;
height: 15px;
margin: 4px 5px;
padding-left: 5px;
}
The heading should look like this:
Basically, in a div, I would float the label left, float the input element right, add a <br> and repeat. I can't figure out why occasionally the elements don't line up correctly. I'm sure I'm missing something silly, but I just can't see it. Any ideas what is causing the occasional misalignment?
Click here for website. Note. I'm seeing the same results in both Chrome and Firefox.
This is what happens when you use floats. They overlap following blocks and shrink line boxes.
If you want to prevent an block element from being adjacent to a float, just use clear.
.float {
float: left;
width: 50px;
height: 3em;
border: 1px solid;
background: yellow;
}
.normal, .clear {
height: 2em;
border: 1px solid;
background: pink;
}
.clear {
clear: left;
}
<div class="float">Float</div>
<div class="normal">Normal</div>
<div class="normal">Normal</div>
<br /><br />
<div class="float">Float</div>
<div class="normal">Normal</div>
<div class="clear">Clear</div>
So apparently the issue is related to element height. Note that the label and input elements have different heights. This was done for appearance. In some combinations and element lengths the float thing gets futzed up.
The corrective action was to modify the CSS style sheet in one place:
.containerLeft label {
clear: both; /* new addition to this element */
float: left;
height: 21px;
margin: 8px 5px 0 5px;
}
An alternative would be to use <div style="clear: both"></div> in lieu of the <br> elements (or use the handy CSS library classes offered up by Oriol)
Is it possible to insert units inside an input element? Inside the <input> element is preferred, but outside is acceptable.
You can use something like this.
Outside box:
<input></input><span style="margin-left:10px;">lb</span>
Inside box:
<input style="padding-right:20px; text-align:right;" value="50"></input><span style="margin-left:-20px;">lb</span>
Fiddle
You can make use of bootstrap input-group component.
Note: The example below uses bootstrap 4 classes
<div class="input-group">
<input type="number" class="form-control">
<div class="input-group-append">
<span class="input-group-text"> m </span>
</div>
</div>
Here is the result below:
I would do this by nudging an extra element (like a span) over the input using position: relative and left: -20px.
Then some padding-right on the input element to ensure that the user's input wont overlap on the new element.
Example here:
https://jsfiddle.net/peg3mdsg/1/
If you want the units to show up right beside the number, you can try this trick (https://jsfiddle.net/ccallendar/5f8wzc3t/24/). The input value is rendered in a div that is positioned on top of the input, with the value part hidden. That way the units are positioned correctly. Just make sure to use the identical styles (font sizes, colors, padding etc).
const input = document.getElementById("input");
const hiddenValue = document.getElementById("hiddenValue");
const unitsValue = document.getElementById("unitsValue");
input.addEventListener("input", () => {
hiddenValue.innerHTML = input.value;
// Only show units when there is a value?
// unitsValue.innerHTML = (input.value.length > 0 ? " km" : "");
});
.wrapper {
position: relative;
width: 80px;
}
#input {
border: 2px solid #fee400;
background-color: #373637;
width: 100%;
font-family: serif;
font-size: 18px;
line-height: 25px;
font-weight: normal;
padding: 3px 3px 3px 10px;
color: white;
}
.units {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 10px;
bottom: 0;
pointer-events: none;
overflow: hidden;
display: flex;
/* Match input styles */
font-family: serif;
font-size: 18px;
line-height: 25px;
font-weight: normal;
/* includes border width */
padding: 5px 5px 5px 12px;
color: white;
opacity: 0.8;
}
.invisible {
visibility: hidden;
}
#unitsValue {
/* Support spaces */
white-space: pre;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<input id="input"type="number" value="12" />
<div class="units">
<span class="invisible" id="hiddenValue">12</span>
<span class="units-value" id="unitsValue"> km</span>
</div>
</div>
Since you are using bootstrap, you can use input-groups component and override some of the bootstrap styling :
HTML
<div class="input-group unity-input">
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter unity value" aria-describedby="basic-addon2" /> <span class="input-group-addon" id="basic-addon2">
lbs
</span>
</div>
CSS
.input-group {
top:40px;
width:auto;
}
.unity-input .form-control {
border-right:0!important;
}
.unity-input .input-group-addon {
background:white!important;
border-left:none!important;
font-weight:bold;
color:#333;
}
Fiddle
Here: (numbers are arbitrary and you can play around with those, what's important is to float the input and the negative margin on the span holding the measurement unit)
CSS:
#form>span {
display: inline-block;
padding-top: 5px;
margin-left: -16px;
}
#form>input {
padding: 5px 16px 5px 5px;
float:left;
}
HTML:
<div id="form">
<span class="units">lb</span>
<input type="text" placeholder="Value" />
</div>
JSFiddle DEMO
The problem I have found with all of the previous answers is that, if you change the length of the units (for example, "€/month" instead of "lb") the <span> element won't be correctly aligned.
I found a better answer in another post, and it's really simple:
Html
<div class="wrapper">
<input></input>
<span class="units">lb</span>
</div>
CSS
.wrapper{
position: relative;
}
.units {
position: absolute;
right: 14px (or the px that fit with your design);
}
This way, you can even put a long unit such as "€/month" and it will still be correctly positioned.
using bootstrap:
<label for="idinput">LABEL</label>
<div class="input-group mb-3">
<input class="form-control" name="idinput" type="text" pattern="(-?[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)" [(ngModel)]="input"/>
<div class="input-group-append">
<span class="input-group-text" id="basic-addon2">m3/s</span>
</div>
</div>
The only thing you can try with strictly css and html is placeholder and text align left. with jquery you could you the .addClass command.
http://jsfiddle.net/JoshuaHurlburt/34nzt2d1/1/
input {
text-align:right;
}
I'm using a form like the following:
<form action="#" method="post">
<div class="row">
<label for="email">E-Mail</label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email">
</div>
<div class="row">
<label for="password">Password</label>
<input type="password" name="password" id="password">
<br>
<label for="passwordRepeat">Repeat Password</label>
<input type="password" name="passwordRepeat" id="passwordRepeat">
</div>
<div class="row">
<label for="phonenumber">Phone Number</label>
<input type="text" name="phonenumber" id="phonenumber">
</div>
</form>
with the following styles:
.row {
background-color: #eee;
margin-bottom: 10px;
padding: 5px;
}
.row > * {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.row > label {
width: 200px;
}
Take a look at the JSFiddle.
I'm using a <br> tag to break the line between a bunch of elements with the property display: inline-block. I'm aware that it is of course bad practice to use <br> instead of margin and padding. That's the reason it became so unpopular.
As far as I know there is no good reason to not use a single <br> tag in an inline element as it is intended to be: As a line break in text without creating a new text section. With display: inline-block, you simulate the inline behaviour to your block elements. Spaces between elements appear as they would in an inline element.
In my case, the <br> is used instead of two wrapper <div>'s. I do like my HTML code clean, so I hesitate in using to many wrapper <div>'s. Is it bad practice to use a <br> in this exact case? I think it is very clear what happens here, if you just read the HTML flie. What do you think about that (without any prejudgments about <br> in general)?
I believe the answer is Yes. <br /> is for line breaks in text and not for positioning, But I will give you a situation where it would hurt you in the long run. Say you have a mobile layout for your fields, and you want them to be 100% width on small screens - with labels above... and then in another case you want them to vertically align next to another... and then in another situation land in a grid like setup. Those linebreaks are going to become cumbersome.
Here is a jsFiddle of that.
I did see someone using them in a clever way where they used display: none; on them at certain break points that rendered them inactive. I didn't expect that to work. I can only really imagine using them for:
Cosmo magazine
style - huge
text layouts
and even then I would use lettering.js to insert spans. But hey --- it's not that people will say you were wrong... it's what does the job best. And I don't think that <br /> ever really suits positioning.
With HTML5, it seems like everything has an element now, so div's are for positioning. That seems pretty semantic to me.
HTML
<div class="input-wrapper">
<label data-required="required">E-Mail</label>
<input type="email" name="email" />
</div>
CSS
.your-form .input-wrapper {
width: 100%;
float: left;
margin-bottom: 2em;
}
.your-form label {
display: block;
width: 100%;
float: left;
}
[data-required="required"]:after{
content: "*";
color: red;
font-size: .8em;
vertical-align: top;
padding: .2em;
}
.your-form input{
display: block;
width: 100%;
float: left;
}
#media screen and (min-width: 28em) {
.your-form label {
width: auto;
float: none;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
min-width: 10em;
}
.your-form input{
width: auto; /* overide previous rule */
float: none; /* overide previous rule */
display: inline-block; /* center vertically */
vertical-align: middle; /* center vertically */
/* min-width: 20em; */
font-size: 1.4em; /* just to show vertical align */
}
} /* end break point */
Yes, as you are using a content element for styling.
It might be shorter, but that doesn't mean it's cleaner.
Adding elements just for styling purposes should be avoided if possible.
And in this case it's possible: Demo
HTML:
<form action="#" method="post">
<div class="row">
<label>E-Mail <input type="text" name="email" /></label>
</div>
<div class="row">
<label>Password <input type="password" name="password" /></label>
<label>Repeat Password <input type="password" name="passwordRepeat" /></label>
</div>
<div class="row">
<label>Phone Number <input type="text" name="phonenumber" /></label>
</div>
</form>
CSS:
.row {
background-color: #eee;
margin-bottom: 10px;
padding: 5px;
}
.row > label {
display: block;
overflow: hidden;
width: 350px;
}
.row > label > input {
float: right;
}
I would avoid it where possible. You may be able to achive what you want, and not use floats by adding a margin to the input element like:
.row > input
{
margin-right:50%;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/pwtA4/
You may need to add some media queries if you want for smaller view ports
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.
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
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.
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>
I have a form and I am trying to make a row "justified" so the entire row (which is a 4 textboxes and labels) to fit an exact pixel width (lets say 800px). Normally, if i just lay it out without any special css, It is less than 800px. I want to "stretch" it to be 800px. I don't care if I have to stretch the textboxes or the spaces in between them.
This is similar to justified layout in MS word if that helps describe what i am looking for. Is this possible within html / css in a form layout?
You basically need text-align-last: justify which specifies the justification of the "last text line" in a block element, this defaults namely to the standard direction, which is left in LTR.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>SO question 15994654</title>
<style>
#fields {
width: 1000px;
border: 1px solid gray;
}
.justified {
text-align-last: justify;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p id="fields" class="justified">
<label for="input1">label1</label>
<input id="input1" />
<label for="input2">label2</label>
<input id="input2" />
<label for="input3">label3</label>
<input id="input3" />
<label for="input4">label4</label>
<input id="input4" />
<p>
</body>
</html>
This works in IE and Firefox (for older Firefox versions, add -moz-text-align-last: justify if necessary), however this fails in Webkit based browsers (Chrome/Safari). To cover those browser as well, you'd need to replace .justified as follows, so that the last line doesn't appear as a "last line" anymore, so that text-align: justify can do its job the usual way:
.justified {
text-align: justify;
}
.justified:after {
content: '';
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
}
Note that the text-align-last: justify becomes redundant this way.
Here's the jsfiddle demo.
Actually, there's a very natural way to do this with pure CSS using text-align: justify;.
You didn't succeed because justification doesn't work for the last line (and when there's only one line, it's considered to be the last). There's a CSS3 property that sets text alignment for the last line: text-align-last. Unfortunately, it is not broadly supported.
The solution is to spawn an extra element that will drop to next line, then the first line will be justified:
<form>
<input type="text" value="" />
<input type="text" value="" />
<input type="text" value="" />
<input type="text" value="" />
</form>
form {
width: 800px;
text-align: justify; /* Can we really make this work? Sure! */
}
input {
display: inline-block; /* making elements respect text-align */
}
form:after {
content: ""; /* creating a hidden element that drops to next line */
display: inline-block; /* making it respect text-align and width */
width: 100%; /* forcing it to drop to next line */
}
Demo: http://jsbin.com/ituroj/5/ (click "edit" in top right corner to fiddle with the code).
Result: semantic, no HTML footprint, minimal CSS code, full browser support.
One approach would be:
input[type=text] {
width: 25%;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
Or, if the fields are really inside a <table/> like in this Fiddle, you can set the width of the textboxes to 100%, so the table controls the width:
input[type=text] {
width: 100%;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
You can do it by nesting the input and labels inside of 'columns' that you determine the width of by percentage - this way you can control the width of the form and the inputs will stay justified.
HTML
<form>
<div class="col4">
<label>Input</label>
<div class="inputWrapper">
<div class="textInput">
<input type="text"/>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col4">
<label>Input</label>
<div class="inputWrapper">
<div class="textInput">
<input type="text"/>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col4">
<label>Input</label>
<div class="inputWrapper">
<div class="textInput">
<input type="text"/>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col4 last">
<label>Input</label>
<div class="inputWrapper">
<div class="textInput">
<input type="text"/>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</form>
CSS
form{
width:800px;
}
.col4{
width:23.5%;
margin-right:2%;
float:left;
}
.last{
margin:0;
}
.inputWrapper{
width:100%;
}
.textInput{
border:1px solid #ccc;
display:block;
padding:5px;
}
.textInput input{
width:100%;
border:none;
padding:0;
}
You can see a jsFiddle example here http://jsfiddle.net/patricklyver/4mbks/
You can combine float with box-sizing. You will have to float, because forms have different weirdness around them in different browsers. For example in Safari on OS X there is always a hidden 1px padding on the top.
JSfiddle
HTML
<form id="myForm">
<input type="text" value="" />
<input type="text" value="" />
<input type="text" value="" />
<input type="text" value="" />
<div class="clear"></div>
</form>
CSS
#myForm {
border: 1px solid blue;
width: 800px;
}
#myForm input[type=text] {
margin: 0px;
display: block;
float: left;
box-sizing: border-box;
width: 25%;
border: 0px;
background-color: orange;
}
#myForm .clear {
clear: both;
}