Bootstrap full-width text-input within inline-form
HtmlCssTwitter Bootstrap-3Html Problem Overview
I am struggling to create a textbox that fits the entire width of my container area.
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12">
<form class="form-inline" role="form">
<input type="text" class="form-control input-lg" id="search-church" placeholder="Your location (City, State, ZIP)">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-lg">Search</button>
</form>
</div>
</div>
When I do the above, the two form elements are in-line, as I expect, but don't take up more than a few columns, at best. Hovering over the col-md-12
div in firebug shows it taking up the expected full width. It's just the text input that doesn't seem to fill. I even tried adding an in-line width value but it didn't change anything. I know this should be simple, just feeling really dumb now.
Here is a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/52VtD/4119/embedded/result/
EDIT:
The selected answer is thorough in every way and a wonderful help. It's what I ended up using. However I think my initial issue was actually a problem with the default MVC5 template within Visual Studio 2013. It contained this in Site.css:
input,
select,
textarea {
max-width: 280px;
}
Obviously that was blocking the text-input from expanding appropriately... Fair warning to future ASP.NET template users...
Html Solutions
Solution 1 - Html
The bootstrap docs says about this:
> Requires custom widths Inputs, selects, and textareas are 100% wide by > default in Bootstrap. To use the inline form, you'll have to set a > width on the form controls used within.
The default width of 100% as all form elements gets when they got the class form-control
didn't apply if you use the form-inline
class on your form.
You could take a look at the bootstrap.css (or .less, whatever you prefer) where you will find this part:
.form-inline {
// Kick in the inline
@media (min-width: @screen-sm-min) {
// Inline-block all the things for "inline"
.form-group {
display: inline-block;
margin-bottom: 0;
vertical-align: middle;
}
// In navbar-form, allow folks to *not* use `.form-group`
.form-control {
display: inline-block;
width: auto; // Prevent labels from stacking above inputs in `.form-group`
vertical-align: middle;
}
// Input groups need that 100% width though
.input-group > .form-control {
width: 100%;
}
[...]
}
}
Maybe you should take a look at input-groups, since I guess they have exactly the markup you want to use (working fiddle here):
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-12">
<div class="input-group input-group-lg">
<input type="text" class="form-control input-lg" id="search-church" placeholder="Your location (City, State, ZIP)">
<span class="input-group-btn">
<button class="btn btn-default btn-lg" type="submit">Search</button>
</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Solution 2 - Html
have a look at something like this:
<form role="form">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-12">
<div class="input-group input-group-lg">
<input type="text" class="form-control" />
<div class="input-group-btn">
<button type="submit" class="btn">Search</button>
</div><!-- /btn-group -->
</div><!-- /input-group -->
</div><!-- /.col-xs-12 -->
</div><!-- /.row -->
</form>
Solution 3 - Html
As stated in a similar question, try removing instances of the input-group
class and see if that helps.
refering to bootstrap:
> Individual form controls automatically receive some global styling. > All textual ,
Solution 4 - Html
> Try something like below to achieve your desired result
input {
max-width: 100%;
}
Solution 5 - Html
With Bootstrap >4.1 it's just a case of using the flexbox utility classes. Just have a flexbox container inside your column, and then give all the elements within it the "flex-fill" class. As with inline forms you'll need to set the margins/padding on the elements yourself.
.prop-label {
margin: .25rem 0 !important;
}
.prop-field {
margin-left: 1rem;
}
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-12">
<div class="d-flex">
<label class="flex-fill prop-label">Label:</label>
<input type="text" class="flex-fill form-control prop-field">
</div>
</div>
</div>
Solution 6 - Html
I know that this question is pretty old, but I stumbled upon it recently, found a solution that I liked better, and figured I'd share it.
Now that Bootstrap 5 is available, there's a new approach that works similarly to using input-group
s, but looks more like an ordinary form, without any CSS tweaks:
<div class="row g-3 align-items-center">
<div class="col-auto">
<label>Label:</label>
</div>
<div class="col">
<input class="form-control">
</div>
<div class="col-auto">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Button</button>
</div>
</div>
The col-auto
class makes those columns fit themselves to their contents (the label and the button in this case), and anything with a col
class should be evenly distributed to take up the remaining space.
Solution 7 - Html
You can use flex-fill
class for input
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12">
<form class="form-inline" role="form">
<input type="text" class="form-control input-lg flex-fill" id="search-church" placeholder="Your location (City, State, ZIP)">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-lg">Search</button>
</form>
</div>