Why don't buttons and inputs align well in Bootstrap?
I tried something simple like:
<input type="text"/><button class="btn">button</button>
The button is about 5px
lower than the input in chrome/firefox.
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twitter-bootstrap
<form class="form-inline">
<div class="form-group">
<label class="sr-only" for="exampleInputEmail3">Email address</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" id="exampleInputEmail3" placeholder="Email">
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Sign in</button>
</form>
Just the heads up, there seems to be special CSS class for this called form-horizontal
input-append has another side effect, that it drops font-size to zero
style="padding-top: 8px"
Use this to shift your div up or down in your row. Works wonders for me.
Bootstrap 5
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control">
<button class="btn btn-outline-secondary" type="button">Go</button>
</div>
Bootstrap 3 & 4
you may use the input-group button property to apply the button direct to the input-field.
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control">
<span class="input-group-btn">
<button class="btn btn-default" type="button">Go!</button>
</span>
</div><!-- /input-group -->
Take a look at BS4 or BS5 Input-Group doc for many more examples.
Use .form-inline = This will left-align labels and inline-block controls for a compact layout
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/hSuy4/292/
<div class="form-inline">
<input type="text">
<input type="button" class="btn" value="submit">
</div>
.form-horizontal = Right align labels and float them to the left to make them appear on the same line as controls which is better for 2 column form layout.
(e.g.
Label 1: [textbox]
Label 2: [textbox]
: [button]
)
Examples: http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/base-css.html#forms
Not directly related, unless you have similar code but I just noticed a strange behaviour to form-inline, bootstrap 3.3.7
I did not use row and cells for this as it is a desktop project, if the opening tag was below table (in this case):
<table class="form-inline">
<form>
<tr>
Form elements would stack.
Switch and it properly lined up.
<form>
<table class="form-inline">
<tr>
Safari 10.0.2 and latest Chrome did not make any differences. Maybe my layout was wrong but it is not very forgiving.
Bootstrap 4:
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control">
<div class="input-group-append">
<button class="btn btn-success" type="button">Button</button>
</div>
</div>
I was also struggling with same issue. The bootstrap classes I use are not working for me. I came up with an workaround, as below:
<form action='...' method='POST' class='form-group'>
<div class="form-horizontal">
<input type="text" name="..."
class="form-control"
placeholder="Search People..."
style="width:280px;max-width:280px;display:inline-block"/>
<button type="submit"
class="btn btn-primary"
style="margin-left:-8px;margin-top:-2px;min-height:36px;">
<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-search"></i>
</button>
</div>
</form>
Basically, I overrode the display property of class "form-control", and used other style properties for correcting the size and position.
Following is the result:
I tried all the above codes and none of them fixed my issues. Here is what worked for me. I used input-group-addon.
<div class = "input-group">
<span class = "input-group-addon">Go</span>
<input type = "text" class = "form-control" placeholder="you are the man!">
</div>
Take an input float as left. Then take the button and float it right. You can clearfix class when you take more than one to distance.
<input style="width:65%;float:left"class="btn btn-primary" type="text" name="name">
<div style="width:8%;float:left"> </div>
<button class="btn btn-default" type="button">Go!</button>
<div class="clearfix" style="margin-bottom:10px"> </div>
I tried above all and end-up with few changes which I would like to share. Here's the code which works for me (find the attached screenshot):
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search text">
<span class="input-group-btn" style="width:0;">
<button class="btn btn-default" type="button">Go!</button>
</span>
</div>
If you want to see it working, just use below code in you editor:
<html>
<head>
<link type='text/css' rel='stylesheet' href='https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css' />
</head>
<body>
<div class="container body-content">
<div class="form-horizontal">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search text">
<span class="input-group-btn" style="width:0;">
<button class="btn btn-default" type="button">Go!</button>
</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Hope this helps.
Source: Stackoverflow.com