Change height of bootstrap form controls - css

I am using Bootstrap input controls with label. My form consists of many input controls, that need to fit into available space. Even when I use "sm" group objects, they occupy lot of space (Especially height). I tried changing attributes in css for inputs like [type="text"] etc. The height of field is affected but not the label portion.

Typing [type="text"] isn't going to affect the form labels. To change the label you need to type something like
form label
{
/* your styling goes here */
}

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Style textarea and button

In a chrome extension (so feel free to make Chrome-specific suggestions), I'd like to make a textarea and a button on a single row. The textarea has a defined height (in rows). The button should be the same height as the textarea. Ideally some attribute or setting allows me to manually determine the width of the button versus the width of the textarea. Ideally this is just a css/html solution, not javascript if I can avoid it.
You will need to use flex box with
{ align-items:stretch }
Check this illustration: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/images/flex-align.svg

Is there a CSS property which acts like android XML "wrap content"?

In particular I have a GWT project with a
TextArea element which I want to conform to a set width and expand as much as needed to the bottom.
ListBox element which I want to conform to a set width and expand vertically to show the entirety of the displayed list item.
Those are two widgets using replaced elements: <textarea> and <select> respectively.
for the TextArea, there's no way to make it really "resize automatically" other than listening to events and computing the new size (there's actually no need to compute the new size, you can just let the browser do it; see http://phaistonian.pblogs.gr/expanding-textareas-the-easy-and-clean-way.html)
for the ListBox, it's impossible to have the items' text wrap. See Word wrap options in a select list for a similar question in pure JS.
Set the width to whatever number and set height to auto.

Prevent Chrome/Browsers from resizing/restyling form elements

Chrome has some cute features to make the selected form element (input ect) stand out like adding a border color and, more annoyingly, it slightly reduces the margins on some of my form elements after they've been selected, shifting the page slightly each time a text entry box is selected.
It's not the textarea draggable resize effect that chrome has, it's effecting input elements that should have a constant size, but they automatically change once selected.
Is there any CSS to disable this feature, or do I simply have to make sure my text box margins/padding are set up such that Chrome doesn't resize them?
Here it is
textarea { resize:none; }
I love working on other people's sites...the problem was javascript they were using to restyle form elements after click and I have no idea why. Solution was to remove that junk.

Keep A Constant Table Size?

I currently have a table that has a few hidden text boxes... The text boxes become visible when certain actions are performed.
The table though changes size according to when the textboxes are visible or now. Ex. When the textboxes are visible the table grows, and vice versa.
I would like to keep the table size at its max size ( size when the text boxes are visible) even when they are not.
Is this possible?
Thanks!
One way is to have something inside the td tags, like a This will cause the td to render.
Another way is to set the controls to "hidden" instead of "none". Hidden allows the controls to still be rendered to html, just not displayed. None will cause the controls to not be rendered at all.
I don't know if the "hidden" setting will still grab the space you want. You might still need the non-breaking space control.

text box giving problems on ASP.Net page

I am designing a page to Add/Edit users - I used a repeater control and a table to display users. In users view the individual columns of the table row have labels to display a record values and when users click on edit button, the labels are hidden and text boxes are displayed for users to edit values - The problem is - as soon as the text boxes are visible, the table size increases - the row height and cells size becomes large. Is there a way to display the text boxes so that they take the same size as the labels
Dealing with tables, the question is: can your labels span on multiple text rows (ie: can you have long texts)? If yes, you may encounter layout problems any way. If no, a simple approach can be creating a CSS Class:
.CellContent { display:block; width: ...; height: ...; }
with your preferred cell width/height. Just stay a bit "large" with your height.
Assign the class to both your label and textbox, and you should not get width/height changes when switching control (thanks to the display:block property).
Again, if you have long texts, you will still encounter issues, and may want to use multilines. In that case, I would suggest ignoring height problems: just set the width to be consistent, and always show a 3-4 lines textbox for editing. Users will not be bothered to see a row height change, if they are ready to type long texts.
I'd use JS+CSS... You'll have to get your hands dirty for this one though. Visual Studio isn't going to help you much.
Here's how I'd do it:
Get the <td> clientWidth and clientHeight.
Set the <td>'s width and height to those px values (so they're no longer relative)
Swap the text for the input
In your CSS, make sure the input has no padding/margin/border and set width:100%, line-height:1em, and height:1em
When you switch back, make sure you un-set the <td> width and height so they return to automatic values.
You'll need to tweak this all slightly. I'm sure you'll have to play around with the padding on the <td> and perhaps set overflow:hidden but you should be able to do what you want.

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