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Creating a form with lots of field could be a tedious task as it involves playing with TR and TD in html table. Along with that it also increases the size and complexity of the html code of out page. e.g. Look at the below form:
Could you imagine it to create without using table or nested div. Well if no then you can just by using easy CSS trick. here is the whole css + html code for doing this.
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Layout Form without Tables</title>
<style type="text/css">
.formLayout
{
background-color: #f3f3f3;
border: solid 1px #a1a1a1;
padding: 10px;
width: 300px;
}
.formLayout label, .formLayout input
{
display: block;
width: 120px;
float: left;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.formLayout label
{
text-align: right;
padding-right: 20px;
}
br
{
clear: left;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="formLayout">
<label>Title</label>
<select>
<option>Mr.</option>
<option>Dr.</option>
<option>Ms.</option>
<option>Mrs.</option>
</select><br>
<label>First Name</label>
<input id="name" name="name"><br>
<label>Last Name</label>
<input id="Text1" name="name"><br>
<label>Address</label>
<input id="address1"><br>
<label></label>
<input id="address2"><br>
<label>City</label>
<select id="city">
<option>New York</option>
<option>Chicago</option>
<option>etc.</option>
</select><br>
<label>Zip</label>
<input id="zip"><br>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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