CSS Styling Forms
The look of an HTML form can be greatly improved with CSS:
Styling Input Fields
Use the width property to determine the width of the
input field:
Example
width: 100%;
}
The example above applies to all <input> elements. If you only want to style a specific input type, you can use attribute selectors:
input[type=text]- will only select text fields-
input[type=password]- will only select password fields input[type=number]- will only select number fields- etc..
Padded Inputs
Use the padding property to add space inside the text
field.
Tip: When you have many inputs after each other, you
might also want to add some margin, to add more space
outside of them:
Example
width: 100%;
padding: 12px 20px;
margin: 8px 0;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
Note that we have set the box-sizing property
to border-box. This makes sure that the padding and
eventually borders are included in the total width and height of the
elements.
Bordered Inputs
Use the border property to change the border size and
color, and use the border-radius property to add
rounded corners:
Example
border: 2px solid #e6e6e6;
border-radius: 20px;
}
If you only want a bottom border, use
the border-bottom property:
Example
border: none;
background-color: #f2f2f2;
border-bottom: 2px solid blue;
}
Colored Inputs
Use the background-color property to add a background
color to the input, and the color property to change
the text color:
Example
background-color: #0054ff;
color: white;
}
Focused Inputs
By default, some browsers will add a blue outline around the input when it
gets focus (clicked on). You can remove this behavior by adding outline: none; to the input.
Use the :focus selector to do something with the input
field when it gets focus:
Example
background-color: #f2f2f2;
}
Example
border-bottom: 2px solid #0054ff;
}
Input with icon/image
If you want an icon inside the input, use
the background-image property and position it with
the background-position property. Also notice that we
add a large left padding to reserve the space of the icon:
Example
background-color: white;
background-image: url('searchicon.png');
background-position: 10px 10px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
padding-left: 40px;
}
Animated Search Input
In this example we use the CSS transition property to
animate the width of the search input when it gets focus.
Example
transition: width 0.4s ease-in-out;
}
input[type=text]:focus {
width: 100%;
}
Styling Textareas
Tip: Use the resize property to
prevent textareas from being resized (disable the "grabber" in the bottom
right corner):
Example
width: 100%;
height: 150px;
padding: 12px 20px;
box-sizing: border-box;
border: 2px solid #ccc;
border-radius: 4px;
background-color: #f8f8f8;
resize: none;
}
Styling Select Menus
Example
width: 100%;
padding: 16px 20px;
border: none;
border-radius: 20px;
background-color: #f2f2f2;
}
Styling Input Buttons
Example
background-color: #0054ff;
border: none;
border-radius: 20px;
color: white;
padding: 16px 32px;
text-decoration: none;
margin: 4px 2px;
cursor: pointer;
}
/* Tip: use width: 100% for full-width buttons */
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