CSSForm Inputs
Styling Form Input Fields
With CSS, you can style most of the different input types, like text fields, password fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, and file inputs. You can also style input labels and form buttons.
Some commonly used CSS properties for styling input fields, are:
Style Input Width
Thewidth property is used to set the width of an input field.
Tip: The default width of an HTML input text field, is 20 characters.
Here we set the width to 100%:
The example above applies to all <input> elements. If you only want to style a specific input type, you can useattribute selectors:
input[type=text]- will only select text fieldsinput[type=password]- will only select password fieldsinput[type=number]- will only select number fields- etc..
Style Input Padding
Thepadding property is used to add some space inside the text field.
Tip: When you have several input fields after each other, you might also want to add somemargin, to add more space around them:
Example
width: 100%;
padding: 12px;
margin: 10px 0;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
Note that we have set thebox-sizing property toborder-box. This makes sure that the padding and eventually borders are included in the total width and height of the elements.
Read more about thebox-sizing property in ourCSS Box Sizing chapter.
Style Input Border
Theborder property is used to change the border size and color, and theborder-radius property can be used to add rounded corners:
If you only want a bottom border, use theborder-bottom property:
Style Input Background Color and Color
Thebackground-color property is used to add a background color to the input, and thecolor property is used to change the text color:
