Dropdown with a form inside with twitter-bootstrap - html

Question

I have a Dropdown in my TopBar, built with the Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework.
I have 3 problems with it that I can't find any solution to:
The text and password input fields are far too big, how can I adjust them? Making the dropdown box bigger would be OK too.
The labels for the fields are too dark, how can I lighten them up a bit?
The Dropdown is closing when I click into one of the fields. I have to reopen it and then I can type until clicking in the next field. The values are preserved even when the dropdown is closed. How can I make it stay open?
Here is a screenshot of problems 1 and 2:
Also here is the HTML for the TopBar as it is now.
<div class='topbar-wrapper'>
<div class='topbar'>
<div class='topbar-inner'>
<div class='container'>
<h3>
Webworld
</h3>
<ul class='nav'>
<li>FILLER...</li>
</ul>
<ul class='nav secondary-nav'>
<li class='dropdown' data-dropdown='dropdown'>
Login
<div class='dropdown-menu' id='signin-dropdown'>
<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/sessions" method="post"><div style="margin:0;padding:0;display:inline"><input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="✓" /><input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="4L/A2ZMYkhTD3IiNDMTuB/fhPRvyCNGEsaZocUUpw40=" /></div>
<fieldset class='textbox'>
<label id='js-username'>
<span>Username</span>
<input autocomplete="on" id="username" name="username" type="text" />
</label>
<label id='password'>
<span>Passwort</span>
<input id="userpassword" name="userpassword" type="password" />
</label>
</fieldset>
<fieldset class='subchk'>
<input name="commit" type="submit" value="Log In" />
</fieldset>
</form>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
There hidden input is needed by rails and autogenerated.
I've already tried to copy the implementation of the login form that twitter uses, but when I tried that, the TopBar is about 250px in height and the content of the dropdown is open, not closeable.
I have no custom CSS or JavaScript so far, except for the top-padding of 40px in the body as suggested by the bootstrap docs.
Can someone help me with this?

Answer 1

Try adding the code below somewhere in your javascript. It should stop it from happening.
$('.dropdown-menu').find('form').click(function (e) {
e.stopPropagation();
});

Answer 2

(Twitter Bootstrap 2.x)
You may want to move the contents of style="" to your stylesheets...
If user entered wrong password:
add class open to li class="dropdown open"
and class error to fieldset class="control-group error"
<ul class="nav pull-right">
<li class="dropdown">
Login <b class="caret"></b>
<div class="dropdown-menu">
<form action="" id="form_login" style="margin: 0; padding: 3px 15px" accept-charset="utf-8" method="post">
<fieldset class="control-group">
<label for="form_email" class="control-label">Email address</label>
<div class="controls">
<div class="input-prepend" style="white-space: nowrap">
<span class="add-on"><i class="icon-envelope"></i></span>
<input type="email" name="email" id="form_email" autocomplete="on" class="span2">
</div>
</div>
</fieldset>
<fieldset class="control-group">
<label for="form_password" class="control-label">Password</label>
<div class="controls">
<div class="input-prepend" style="white-space: nowrap">
<span class="add-on"><i class="icon-lock"></i></span>
<input type="password" name="password" id="form_password" class="span2">
</div>
</div>
</fieldset>
<label class="checkbox">
<input type="checkbox" name="remember" value="true"> Remember me
</label>
<p class="navbar-text">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Login</button>
</p>
</form>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
You don't need any extra css or javascript to make this look nice (with TB2.x)

Answer 3

In case you don't want to stop propagation of your events, or that solution didn't work for you, you can add this code somewhere near initialization of bootstrap-dropdown:
$('html').off('click.dropdown.data-api');
$('html').on('click.dropdown.data-api', function(e) {
if(!$(e.target).parents().is('.dropdown-menu form')) {
$('.dropdown').removeClass('open');
}
});

Answer 4

For your third question - In your bootstrap-dropdown.js comment source code row
$('html').on('click.dropdown.data-api', clearMenus)
and write there this:
$(document).bind('click', function(e) {
var $clicked = $(e.target);
if (!$clicked.hasClass("dropdown-menu") &&
!$clicked.parents().hasClass("dropdown-menu")){
clearMenus();
}
});

Answer 5

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/bootstrap.css#L1559
max-width is set to 220px, remove the attribute and it will stretch itself.

Answer 6

Its looks like a CSS based problem u are facing.
I fixed it with the following styles:
#signin-dropdown {
padding-left: 5px;
padding-right: 5px;
padding-top: 1em;
}
#signin-dropdown form {
margin:0px;
}
#signin-dropdown form .textbox {
margin-bottom:0em;
padding-top:0em;
}
#signin-dropdown form .subchk {
margin-bottom: 5px;
padding-top: 8px;
}
#username, #password, #userpassword {
color: #404040;
float: left;
font-size: 13px;
line-height: 18px;
padding-top: 0px;
text-align: left !important;
width: 140px;
}

Answer 7

About your questions 1 and 2.
Have you tried setting the length of the input? You can do this by setting the "size" attribute of the input tag. You can read more here
Did you try changing the style of the label? For example:
<span style="color:#FFFFFF">Username </span>

Answer 8

you just add your content in <form></form> tag
like this:
<div class="dropdown dropdown-scroll" id="selectedClient">
<button class="btn btn-block btn-lg btn-default dropdown-toggle" type="button" id="dropdownMenu1" data-toggle="dropdown">
انتخاب <span class="caret"></span>
</button>
<div class="dropdown-menu " role="menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenu1">
<button type="button" class="close">×</button>
<form>
<ul>
<li role="presentation">
<input id="searchSubClientInput" type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="جستجو بر اساس نام خانوادگی" ng-model="query">
</li>
</ul>
</form>
<ul class="select-list scrollable-menu">
<li class="dropdown-header">خودم</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>