I have to insert "*" to the label only if input is required.
There is a way to get the label of the input tag from the class .notEmpty?
<label for="foo">Foo</label>
<input class="notEmpty" id="foo">
You could make the field required and then use the input:valid selector to show the star when the field is empty.
Markup:
<label for="foo">Foo</label>
<input class="text" id="foo" required="required">
<span class="star" style="visibility: visible;">*</span>
CSS:
.text:valid + .star { visibility: hidden!important; }
See a working CodePen Here: https://codepen.io/fennefoss/pen/aWpqqj
You can try a little hack something like this :
label{
float: left;
margin-right: 10px;
}
.notEmpty + label::after{
content: '*';
}
<input class="notEmpty" id="foo">
<label for="foo">Foo</label>
I have been attempting to solve this phenomina using style="overflow: hidden; padding-right: .5em;". The search button still appears at the bottom left and creates an "l" shape. If any has ideas as to why this happens it would help
#searchbartop{
margin:auto;
vertical-align:middle;
position:absolute;
margin-left:25%;
}
#searchbartoptext{
width:600%;
}
<form id="searchbartop">
<input type="text" placeholder="Search..." id="searchbartoptext" style="overflow: hidden; padding-right: .5em;" required>
<input type="button" style="width: auto;" value="Search">
</form>
You can try like this: Demo
#searchbartop {
margin:auto;
vertical-align:middle;
margin-left:25%;
width:75%;
}
#searchbartop input[type=text] {
width:70%;
padding-right: .5em;
display:block;
float:left;
}
#searchbartop input[type=button] {
width:20%;
display:block;
float:left;
}
HTML:
<form id="searchbartop">
<input type="text" placeholder="Search..." required/>
<input type="button" value="Search" />
</form>
You may have to set the search button to position:absolute; as is the case in this Fiddle
I want to center the div box im making here but i dont want to center the text in the box and i cant seem to find how to do this. For now what i have is this:
.box {
text-align: left;
background-color:#3F48CC;
color:white;
font-weight:bold;
margin:120px auto;
height:150px;
display: inline-block;
width: 200px;
}
and
<div class=box>
Login
<form method ="post" action="addMember.php">
<label for="name">Username:</label>
<input name="name"/>
<label for="password">Password:</label>
<input name="password"/>
<p>
<input name="submit" type="Submit" value="Register"/>
<input name="reset" type="reset" value="Clear Form">
</form>
</div>
Thanks in advance!
Remove display: inline-block; & text-align:center
inline-block is not necessary when you are defining the width/height for the div.
By default div is a block element.
.box {
background-color:#3F48CC;
color:white;
font-weight:bold;
margin:120px auto;
height:150px;
width: 200px;
}
DEMO
Use dead centre...
.box {
text-align: left;
background-color:#3F48CC;
color:white;
font-weight:bold;
height:150px;
width: 200px;
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
top: 50%;
margin-left: -100px;
margin-top: -75px;
}
Note: Negative margins are exactly half the height and width, which pull the element back into perfect center. Only works with elements of a fixed height/width.
More info:
CSS Tricks Example
jsFiddle Demo
jsFiddle DEMO
Alternate jsFiddle DEMO with Centered Form and also this CSS3 Version.
The key to making the form look correct is to use padding, which is part of box model. Doing so allows you to fill in the sides, and keeps the text left-hand aligned.
HTML
<div class=box>Login
<form method="post" action="addMember.php">
<label for="name">Username:</label>
<input name="name" />
<label for="password">Password:</label>
<input name="password" />
<div class="buttons">
<input name="submit" type="Submit" value="Register" />
<input name="reset" type="reset" value="Clear Form" />
</div>
</form>
</div>
CSS:
.box {
background-color:#3F48CC;
color:white;
font-weight:bold;
height:150px;
width: 150px;
padding: 10px;
}
.buttons{
padding-top: 20px;
}
Screenshot:
I want a row of blocks from left to right, followed by a block underneath.
Here is a picture of what I would like to see rendered in the browser.
I need to do all positioning by CSS, not by tables. Here is my HTML and my CSS...
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head><link rel="stylesheet" href="demo.css" /><head>
<body>
<form action="">
<fieldset>
<legend>Field set A</legend>
<label for="password">Password
<input id="password" name="password" type="text" value="my password" />
</label>
</fieldset>
<fieldset class="radio">
<legend>Chaining mode</legend>
<label for="chain-cfb">
<input id="chain-cfb" name="chain" type="radio" />CFB
</label>
<label for="chain-cbc">
<input id="chain-cbc" name="chain" type="radio" />CBC
</label>
</fieldset>
</form>
<hr />
<p style="padding-top: 1em;">Some text underneath</p>
</body>
</html>
... and here is the content of demo.css...
fieldset
{
float: left;
display: block;
width: 17em;
margin: 0 1em 1em 0;
padding: 0 1em 1em 1em;
}
fieldset.radio input
{
clear: both;
float: left;
width: auto;
}
input
{
display: block;
width: 15em;
}
label
{
display: block;
margin-bottom: 1em;
font-weight: bold;
}
label.first
{
padding-top: 1em;
}
The way I read it, should be getting the desired result with this code. But I am not. Here is what renders instead ....
What changes do I need to make to my html/css in order to get the stated desired result?
A way without clearing is:
form { overflow: hidden; }
I usually create a class called floatbox and use this on every container which contains floating elements
.floatbox { overflow: hidden; }
the matching html then is
<form class="floatbox" action="">
<fieldset><p>I'm floating</p></fieldset>
<fieldset><p>me too</p></fieldset>
</form>
you need to make the <hr /> element clear the floats. hr { clear: left; }
Add:
hr {
clear: left;
}
to your style sheet to clear your floats.
You could use the ole' dummy clearing element trick:
<form action="">
<fieldset>
<legend>Field set A</legend>
<label for="password">Password
<input id="password" name="password" type="text" value="my password" />
</label>
</fieldset>
<fieldset class="radio">
<legend>Chaining mode</legend>
<label for="chain-cfb">
<input id="chain-cfb" name="chain" type="radio" />CFB
</label>
<label for="chain-cbc">
<input id="chain-cbc" name="chain" type="radio" />CBC
</label>
</fieldset>
<div style="clear:both"> </div>
</form>
This ensures your form actually occupies as much space as the elements inside it.
The problem with simply clearing the hr is that the form has zero width and height, which could be problematic if you're applying styling to the form as well.
How to position a complex form with multiple fields in line across the screen?
Why are people so hell-bent on avoiding tables?
Tables are not deprecated and should be used when displaying content which logically belongs in a table.
If your form is logically grouped such that a table would be intuitive, please use a table.
Always be thinking: "What's the cleanest, simplest, most maintainable way to achieve this result."
If you want a fluid form with a variable number columns, then disregard this.
I prefer the slightly-more-semantic way, using a definition list:
<dl class="form">
<dt><label for="input1">One:</label></dt>
<dd><input type="text" name="input1" id="input1"></dd>
<dt><label for="input2">Two:</label></dt>
<dd><input type="text" name="input2" id="input2"></dd>
</dl>
Then your CSS:
dl.form {
width:100%;
float:left;
clear:both;
}
dl.form dt {
width:50%;
float:left;
clear:left;
text-align:right;
}
dl.form dd {
width:50%;
float:left;
clear:right;
text-align:left;
}
This should produce a form centered in the page, with the labels in the left column and the inputs in the right
There are many different ways to do this. It's all a matter of preference. What I typically do is have a wrapper div that contains all of the rows, and then a div block per row that contains the label, input, and validator. You can use the line-height CSS property to help you with vertical alignment. Example:
<div class="formWrapper">
<form>
<div class="formItem">
<label for="firstName">First Name:</label>
<input name="firstName" id="firstName" class="required" type="text" />
<span class="validator" style="display: none;">*</>
</div>
... <!-- Rinse repeat -->
</form>
</div>
<style type="text/css">
.formWrapper { width: 400px }
.formWrapper .formItem { line-height: 35px; height: 35px; }
.formWrapper label { width: 50px; }
.formWrapper input { width: 100px; border: 1px solid #000; }
.formWrapper .validator { padding-left: 10px; color: #FF0000; }
</style>
Hope that helps.
After looking at many many different solutions, I found the examples on this page (particularly the one from 'Fatal'?) some of the most helpful. But the extensive and tags did bother me a bit. So here is a little bit of a modification that some may like. Also, you find some sort of 'wrapper' or 'fieldset' style very necessary to keep the float from affecting other HTML. Refer to examples above.
<style>
.formcol{
float: left;
padding: 2px;
}
.formcol label {
font-weight: bold;
display:block;}
</style>
<div class="formcol">
<label for="org">organization</label>
<input type="text" id="org" size="24" name="org" />
</div>
<div class="formcol">
<label for="fax">fax</label>
<input type="text" id="fax" name="fax" size="2" />
</div>
<div class="formcol">
<label for="3">three</label>
<input type="text" id="3" name="3" />
<label for="4">four</label>
<input type="text" id="4" name="4" />
<label for="5">five</label>
<input type="text" id="5" name="5" />
</div>
<div class="formcol">
<label for="6">six</label>
<input type="text" id="6" name="6" />
</div>
That would be done using CSS by setting the "display" property to "inline" (since form elements are, by default, block level elements).
Do a search for "layouts without tables". Many sites describe formatting with CSS. Here is a simple intro: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/css/article.php/3642151
I suggest you blueprint CSS framework. Have a quick look at the demo page.
This is what I usually use when I need to design pretty complex forms.
HTML:
<fieldset> <legend>Consent group</legend> <form> <fieldset class="nolegend"> <p><label><span>Title</span> <input type="text" name="title" size="40" value="" /></label></p> <p><label><span>Short name</span> <input type="text" name="sname" size="20" value="" /></label></p> <p><label><br /><input type="checkbox" name="approval"> This consent group requires approval</label></p> </fieldset> <fieldset class="nolegend"> <p><label><span>Data use limitations</span> <textarea name="dul" cols="64" rows="4"></textarea></label></p> </fieldset> <input type="submit" value="Submit" /> </form></fieldset>
CSS:
body, input, textarea, select { font: 1em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}input, textarea, select { font-size: .8em }fieldset,fieldset legend { background-color: #EEE;}fieldset { border: none; margin: 0; padding: 0 0 .5em .01em; top: 1.25em; position: relative; margin-bottom: 2em;}fieldset fieldset { margin: 0 0 1em 0;}fieldset legend { padding: .25em .5em 0 .5em; border-bottom: none; font-weight: bold; margin-top: -1.25em; position: relative; *left: -.5em; color: #666;}fieldset form,fieldset .fieldset { margin: 0; padding: 1em .5em 0 .5em; overflow: hidden;}fieldset.nolegend { position: static; margin-bottom: 1em; background-color: transparent; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;}fieldset.nolegend p,fieldset.nolegend div { float: left; margin: 0 1em 0 0;}fieldset.nolegend p:last-child,fieldset.nolegend div:last-child { margin-right: 0;}fieldset.nolegend label>span { display: block;}fieldset.nolegend label span { _display: block;}
I omitted couple lines of CSS with Safari hacks. You can check out live version of this code.
Pace KyleFarris but I just had to give Ben S a vote for having the guts to mention tables. Just look at the variety of CSS solutions on this page and around the internet for a ridiculously simple problem. CSS may one day become a good solution, but for the time being replicating the simple row and column grid that the table tag provides is extremely complex. I have spent countless fruitless hours with this prejudice against tables for things like a form. Why do we do this to ourselves?
input fields, by default, are inline. Therefore, you can simply use line them up without Another option if you want them lined up correctly is as follows:
<div id="col1" style="float: left;>
<input type="text" name="field1" />
<br />
<input type="text" name="field3" />
</div>
<div id="col2" style="float: left;>
<input type="text" name="field2" />
<br />
<input type="text" name="field4" />
</div>
I prefer to use fieldset to group all elements and p for each form field.
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
fieldset {
width: 500px;
background-color: lightblue;
}
fieldset legend {
font-weight: bold;
}
fieldset p {
clear:both;
padding: 5px;
}
fieldset label {
text-align: left;
width: 100px;
float: left;
font-weight: bold;
}
fieldset .Validator {
color: red !important;
font-weight: bold;
}
</style>
<head>
<body>
<form>
<fieldset>
<legend>Data</legend>
<p>
<label for="firstName">First Name:</label>
<input name="firstName" id="firstName" class="required" type="text" />
<span class="Validator" style="display: none;">*</span>
</p>
<p>
<label for="lastName">Last Name:</label>
<input name="lastName" id="lastName" class="required" type="text" />
<span class="Validator">*</span>
</p>
</fieldset>
</form>
</body>
</html>