Bootstrap - horizontal Aligning Text Fields - css

Question

I am trying to align textfields with bootstrap however I keep failing to adopt anything I found on sources to my project. What I am trying to do is aligning e-mail and password text-fields but leave 'Remember me' and 'Login' centered.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css">
<form method="POST" action="/auth/login">
<div class="form-group">
<div>
<label for="exampleInputEmail1">Email address</label>
<input type="email" name="email" value="{{ old('email') }}">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div>
<label for="exampleInputPassword1">Password</label>
<input type="password" name="password" id="password">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="checkbox">
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="remember"> Remember me
</label>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Login</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>

Answer 1

You can use Bootstrap's form-horizontal class to help achieve the layout.
Demo: http://www.bootply.com/nJ2P2gi76B
<form class="form-horizontal">
<div class="form-group">
<label for="inputEmail" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Email</label>
<div class="col-sm-10">
<input type="email" class="form-control" id="inputEmail">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="inputPassword" class="col-sm-2 control-label">Password</label>
<div class="col-sm-10">
<input type="password" class="form-control" id="inputPassword">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-10">
<div class="checkbox">
<label>
<input type="checkbox"> Remember me
</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-10">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Log in</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>

Answer 2

You can access only the text input by using a css attribute selector.
For Example...
input[type="text"] {
...
}
You can get more specific if needed...
#someID input[type="text"] {
...
}

Answer 3

you can use text-center to center the inner content of your div. you can use text-left, text-center, text-right classes to align the contents.
#import url(https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css);
#import url(https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css);
<form method="POST" action="/auth/login">
<div class="form-group">
<div>
<label for="exampleInputEmail1">Email address</label>
<input type="email" name="email" value="{{ old('email') }}">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div>
<label for="exampleInputPassword1">Password</label>
<input type="password" name="password" id="password">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group text-center">
<div class="checkbox">
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="remember"> Remember me
</label>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group text-center">
<div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Login</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>

Answer 4

It would help if you could post a JSFiddle with the css you are using!
Guessing from what i see:
You could add a class to both fields and override the css.
or put both fields in a div and align them without impacting the rest.
Using an enclosing div:
JSFiddle
CSS:
.input-fields {
width: 300px;
}
.input-fields .form-group {
float: right;
}
.form-group {
clear: both;
text-align: center;
}
HTML:
<form method="POST" action="/auth/login">
<div class="input-fields">
<div class="form-group">
<div>
<label for="exampleInputEmail1">Email address</label>
<input type="email" name="email" value="{{ old('email') }}">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div>
<label for="exampleInputPassword1">Password</label>
<input type="password" name="password" id="password">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="checkbox">
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="remember"> Remember me
</label>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Login</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>