What would be a proper css method to make the following so it is the same with the exception that the text input fields vertically line up along their left side?
So the check boxes will still be right up against the input fields and in between the label and input fields, but the input fields still all light up.
Current HTML:
<p><label for="search_uri">Uri:</label><input id="search_uri" type="text" name="Uri" /></p>
<p><label for="search_server">Server:</label><input type="checkbox" name="server_like" /><input id="search_server" type="text" name="Server" /></p>
<p><label for="search_host">Host:</label><input id="search_host" type="text" name="Host" /></p>
Current CSS:
label {
font-size: 90%;
float:left;
width: 15em;
}
Why not just use a negative margin?
.checkbox {margin-left: -16px;}
Depending on the rest of your setup might require a bit of tweaking for cross-browser pixel-perfectness.
I would personally probably also just float both the labels and the inputs and get rid of the <p>:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<style>
label {
display: block;
font-size: 90%;
width: 15em;
clear:left;
}
label, input {
float:left;
}
input[type=checkbox]
/* use .checkbox and add 'class="checkbox"' if you want to support IE6*/
{
margin-left: -2em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<label for="search_uri">Uri:</label>
<input id="search_uri" type="text" name="Uri" />
<label for="search_server">Server:</label>
<input type="checkbox" name="server_like" />
<input id="search_server" type="text" name="Server" />
<label for="search_host">Host:</label>
<input id="search_host" type="text" name="Host" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
Do this.
HTML Markup:
<form><fieldset>
<legend>Login Details</legend>
<label>Your Email:</label><input type="text" name="email" maxlength="32" />
<label>Your Password:</label><input type="password" name="password" maxlength="30" />
</fieldset>
<input id="submit" type="submit" value="Create Account" /></form>
Css Markup:
fieldset {padding: 10px 0;}
legend {font-weight: bold; padding: 0 0 3px 0; color: #f00;}
input {padding: 2px; border-radius: 3px; width: 130px; float: left; margin: 0 0 5px 0;}
label {float: left; width: 150px; text-align: right; margin: 1px 3px 0 0;}
#submit {width: auto; margin: 0 0 0 153px;}
Then add a width to your form, depending on the input sizes, with your checkbox, just float it in between and use margins.
I would do something like this;
<div class="label">Uri:</div><div class="field"><input type="text" /></div>
Then give the div with the class 'label' an default width and float them next to eachother.
EDIT: Saw you changed your post;
<label for="search_uri">Uri:</label>
<input id="search_uri" type="text" name="Uri" />
Your css could be something like
label
{
width: 150px;
float:left;
clear:both; /*Clear the previous row with label and field, not sure if this is needed*/
}
input
{
float:left;
}
If your form is small, you can just use a <table>.
Related
I have a form with 2 inputs and a submit button.
They are in different DIVS, so I'm using a left float to get them all in one line.
I have the whole thing contained in a larger DIV, and I'm using auto on the left and right margins to try and center the whole thing.
No matter what I do I can't get that form centered. It's making me crazy. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just missing. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!
http://jsfiddle.net/T84hE/
Here's the CSS I'm using:
#mc_bottom_signup{
width:90%;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#mc_bottom_signup input[type="text"],
#mc_bottom_signup input[type="email"] {
margin-right: .25em;
width:30%;
float:left;
}
#mc-embedded-subscribe {
margin-top: 0;
float:left;
}
Whilst this could be achieved with floats, I prefer using inline-block on children, then text-align: center on the parent.
HTML (Removed placeholding <div>s & added indentation)
<div id="mc_bottom_signup">
<form id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" class="validate" action="http://trinidadpena.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=a99f40b5b94ce684ab690557e&id=9d41329865" method="post" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" novalidate="" target="_blank">
<input id="mce-FNAME" class="required" name="FNAME" type="text" value="" placeholder="your first name" />
<input id="mce-EMAIL" class="required email" name="EMAIL" type="email" value="" placeholder="your email address" />
<div style="position: absolute; left: -5000px;">
<input tabindex="-1" name="b_a99f40b5b94ce684ab690557e_9d41329865" type="text" value="" />
</div>
<input id="mc-embedded-subscribe" class="button" name="subscribe" type="submit" value="Yes, I want in!" />
</form>
</div>
CSS (Less specificity)
#mc_bottom_signup{
width:90%;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: center;
}
#mc_bottom_signup input{
display: inline-block;
}
DEMO
--DEMO--
Use text-align: center , display: inline-block and max-width:30%
#mc_bottom_signup{
width:90%;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align:center;
}
#mc_bottom_signup form div{
max-width:30%;
display: inline-block;
}
#mc_bottom_signup input[type="text"],
#mc_bottom_signup input[type="email"] {
}
#mc-embedded-subscribe {
}
margin: 0 auto; only works when the width of elements is known. I would set a fixed width then use media queries to set percentage widths as it looks like you are working on an email which won't support the other methods of centring content.
How can I get my boxes to align with my text?
I have also copy and pasted the html/css code in jsFiddle!
http://jsfiddle.net/EFByC/51/
<form
action="http://www.sblogger/cgi-bin/subcomments"
method="post" >
<fieldset name="commentFS" id="commentFS">
<label for="username">Username</label>
<input name="username" id="username" title="Supply your username" required="required"/>
<label for="email">E-mail</label>
<input name="email" id="email" type="email" title="Supply a valid e-mail address" required="required"/>
<label for="password">Password</label>
<input name="password" id="password" type="password" title="You must provide your password" required="required"/>
<label for="commentbox">Comment<br />
(500 character limit)</label>
<textarea maxlength="500" name="commentbox" id="commentbox"></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="Submit Comment"/>
</fieldset>
</form>
here you go, edited your Fiddle
It comes down to this:
If you float left & right, you need a wrapper to preserve the room for the floats.
so i added this:
p {
overflow: hidden;/*this should be clearfix, just for demo it is overflow fix*/
}
label{
display: block;
float: left;
font-size: 0.9em;
width: 20%;/* was 100%*/
margin-top: 5px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
/*clear: left*/
}
and the wrapper:
<p>
<label for="username">Username</label>
<input name="username" id="username" title="Supply your username" required="required">
</p>
i see you use float, display and width:100%; , you definitly have too much unnedeed rules here .
inline-block + width, can do it and allow you to vertiacal-align labels and inputs,
float+clear can work too, but vertical-align will not be avalaible :
example with inline-block:
/*Field set styles */
fieldset {
background-color: rgb(245,245,255);
margin: 15px auto;
padding: 5px;
width: 90%;
}
/* Label Styles */
label{
display: inline-block;
font-size: 0.9em;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
width:35%;
}
/*Input control styles */
input, textarea {
font-size: 0.9em;
margin-left: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
width: 55%;
vertical-align:middle;
}
/*Text area styles */
textarea {
height: 150px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/EFByC/58/
I have been trying to edit this easy form to just look good for 3 hours now and Im still not quite there. I want the input fields to be on the same row as the labels naturally, but somehow the inputs are a bit lower than the labels and I cant seem to edit them with margins. What am I doing wrong?
Heres a snaggy picture of what the form looks like:
// CONTACT FORM
<label for="name"><p>Name:</p></label>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" tabindex="1" />
<br/>
<label for="email"><p>Email:</p></label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" tabindex="2" />
<br/>
<label for="subject"><p>Subject:</p></label>
<input type="text" name="subject" id="subject" tabindex="3" />
<br/>
<label for="comments"><p>Comments:</p></label>
<textarea name="comments" id="comments" cols="45" rows="5" tabindex="4"></textarea>
<br/>
<label for="submit"></label>
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" tabindex="5" />
<label for="reset"></label>
<input type="reset" name="reset" id="reset" value="Clear" tabindex="6" />
// CSS
label {
float: none;
font-size: 100%;
width: 250px; /* just this width evens out input box placement */
font-weight: bold;
}
input { /*I think these just fall in because they are naturally following the labels!*/
width: 250px;
padding:5px;
margin-top: -10px;
}
textarea {
width: 250px;
height: 150px;
resize:none;
}
guestbook {
margin-top:50px;
text-align:center;
font-size:26px;
color:#05924b;
font-family:Gisha;
}
gb p {
color:#05924b;
font-family:Gisha;
text-align:left;
margin-left:85px;
margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px;
}
// SOLUTION: Removed the "p" paragraph from within the form and adjusted the rest from CSS, added float:left to the different inputs fields and rows, lowered the label width so the input came closer, then calculated and put the correct margin-right to both input{} and textarea{} and last to #submit to get everything in nice order.
Heres a screenshot from the new code: http://snag.gy/PwpbQ.jpg
// CSS
/* Input */
label {
float: left;
font-size: 100%;
width: 50px; /* just this width evens out input box placement */
font-weight: bold;
margin: 2px 0;
padding:5px;
font-family: Gisha;
font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: none;
text-align: left;
}
input { /*I think these just fall in because they are naturally following the labels!*/
width: 300px;
padding:5px;
margin: 5px 0;
font-size:24px;
margin-right:192px;
}
textarea {
width: 300px;
height: 150px;
resize:none;
margin:5px 0;
padding:5px;
margin-right:192px;
}
#submit {
margin-right:225px;
}
/* End of input */
Remove all of the <p> tags from the labels. A <p> tag is a block level element, therefore it should not be nested within the inline element <label>. Block level elements also clear, meaning they do not allow content on either side (unless floated). I believe this is causing your issue.
<label for="name">Name:</label>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" tabindex="1" />
<br/>
<label for="email">Email:</label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" tabindex="2" />
<br/>
<label for="subject">Subject:</label>
<input type="text" name="subject" id="subject" tabindex="3" />
<br/>
<label for="comments">Comments:</label>
<textarea name="comments" id="comments" cols="45" rows="5" tabindex="4"></textarea>
<br/>
<label for="submit"></label>
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" tabindex="5" />
<label for="reset"></label>
<input type="reset" name="reset" id="reset" value="Clear" tabindex="6" />
Once the markup has been adjusted the label and input tags have no vertical spacing. To add vertical spacing you can add a margin to both elements.
label {
font-size: 100%;
width: 250px;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 2px 0;
}
input {
width: 250px;
padding:5px;
margin: 2px 0;
}
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/KZrXD/
Is possible align SELECT and INPUT inline without specify WIDTH size, without using tables and with the same HTML? See picture.
Live example: http://jsfiddle.net/N4hpQ/
Thank you.
<html>
<head>
<style>
fieldset {
display: inline-block;
}
fieldset input,
fieldset select{
float: right;
margin-left: 5px;
}
fieldset p {
text-align: right;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<fieldset>
<p><label>First Name: </label><input type="text" /></p>
<p><label>Second Name: </label><input type="text" /></p>
<p><label>Country: </label><select><option>Choose</option></select></p>
<p><label>Age: </label><select><option>Choose</option></select></p>
</fieldset>
</body>
</html>
You could use css display: table; to achieve this.
HTML
<fieldset>
<p>
<label>First Name: </label>
<input type="text" />
</p>
<p>
<label>Second Name: </label>
<input type="text" />
</p>
<p>
<label>Country: </label>
<select>
<option>Choose</option>
</select>
</p>
<p>
<label>Age: </label>
<select>
<option>Choose</option>
</select>
</p>
</fieldset>
CSS
fieldset {
display: table;
}
fieldset p {
display: table-row;
}
fieldset input,
fieldset select,
fieldset label {
display: table-cell;
margin: 3px;
}
fieldset label {
text-align: right;
}
Demo
Without TABLE or width.
CSS:
FIELDSET {
display: inline-block;
line-height: 200%;
}
.labels {
text-align: right;
float: left;
margin-right: 5px;
}
.inputs {
float: left;
}
And HTML:
<fieldset>
<div class="labels">
<label>First Name: </label><br />
<label>Second Name: </label><br />
<label>Country: </label><br />
<label>Age: </label>
</div>
<div class="inputs">
<input type="text" /><br />
<input type="text" /><br />
<select><option>Choose</option></select><br />
<select><option>Choose</option></select>
</div>
</fieldset>
And the fiddle
EDIT
It seems that you've edited your question. If the same HTML (as in your example) is required, my answer is not valid anymore.
Possible? Yes, here's a quick hack to do it even:
float your labels left, float your inputs right, then give the inputs a margin-right, to put them in position to be next to your labels.
so would look like this:
p label{
float:left;
}
p input{
float:right;
margin-right: /*whatever value you need this to be to look good*/;
}
here is the jsfiddle.
html code
<div id="signup">
<p>
<label>Frist Name</label>
<input type="text"/>
<p>
<p>
<label>Last Name</label>
<input type="text"/>
<p>
<p>
<label>Email</label>
<input type="text"/>
<p>
<p>
<label>Mobile Number</label>
<input type="text"/>
<p>
<p>
<label>Password</label>
<input type="password"/>
<p>
<p>
<label>Re Password</label>
<input type="password"/>
<p>
</div>
and this is css
css
#signup{
width: 860px;
background-color: white;
border: 1px black solid;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
}
#signup p label{
padding: 0.4em;
color: #0986e3;
}
#signup p input{
width: 300px;
padding: 0.4em;
}
if u run this code u will see the input files right and left , and that is not good , i can correct this problems using div or li , but i want the best practice for doing that , i want the input filds to be exaclty below each other
,this is the code in jsfiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/Wiliam_Kinaan/EfBD7/
Make the labels display as block elements. That way, you can set it's width. But you still need them to be inline. You need to apply either float:left, or display:inline-block so they act inline as well as block.
#signup p label{
display:inline-block;
width:100px;
}
/*or*/
#signup p label{
float:left;
width:100px;
}
If you want to support older browsers, then use the float:left. If you target new browsers, then display:inline-block is better. If you use the float approach, add this to the CSS to clear the float:
#signup p{
overflow:hidden;
zoom:1;
}
Here, I did it how I would do it. I stripped out the p and some css to make text right side. but you can of course add display:inline-block;width:300px; to the label and swap the label and input locations in html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
#signup{
width: 500px;
background-color: #ececec;
border: 1px black solid;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
}
#signup label{
font:12px arial;
color: #0986e3;
}
#signup input{
margin:10px;
width: 300px;
padding 0.4em;
}
#signup input[type=button]{
margin:10px;
width: 80px;
padding 0.4em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="signup">
<input type="text"/>
<label>Frist Name</label>
<input type="text"/>
<label>Last Name</label>
<input type="text"/>
<label>Email</label>
<input type="text"/>
<label>Mobile Number</label>
<input type="password"/>
<label>Password</label>
<input type="password"/>
<label>Re Password</label>
<input type="button" value="click me!" />
</div>
</body>
</html>
Give the label a definite width, like:
#signup p label{
padding: 0.4em;
color: #0986e3;
width: 100px;
display: inline-block;
}
Can you use table , might help your cause , see the example , sorry for not aligning the markup well.