CSS Form Example

From http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/06/clean-and-pure-css-form-design.html

by Robert Altman

HTML

<div id="stylized" class="myform">
    <form id="form" name="form" method="post" action="index.html">
        <h1>Sign-up form</h1>
        <p>This is the basic look of my form without table</p>

        <label>Name
            <span class="small">Add your name</span>
        </label>
        <input type="text" name="name" id="name" />

        <label>Email
            <span class="small">Add a valid address</span>
        </label>
        <input type="text" name="email" id="email" />

        <label>Password
            <span class="small">Min. size 6 chars</span>
        </label>
        <input type="text" name="password" id="password" />

        <button type="submit">Sign-up</button>
        <div class="spacer"></div>

    </form>
</div>

CSS

body
{
    font-family:"Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size:12px;
}

p, h1, form, button
{
    border:0;
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
}

.spacer{
    clear:both;
    height:1px;
}

/* ----------- My Form ----------- */
.myform
{
    margin:0 auto;
    width:400px;
    padding:14px;
}

/* ----------- stylized ----------- */

#stylized
{
    border:solid 2px #b7ddf2;
    background:#ebf4fb;
}

#stylized h1
{
    font-size:14px;
    font-weight:bold;
    margin-bottom:8px;
}

#stylized p
{
    font-size:11px;
    color:#666666;
    margin-bottom:20px;
    border-bottom:solid 1px #b7ddf2;
    padding-bottom:10px;
}

#stylized label
{
    display:block;
    font-weight:bold;
    text-align:right;
    width:140px;
    float:left;
}

#stylized .small
{
    color:#666666;
    display:block;
    font-size:11px;
    font-weight:normal;
    text-align:right;
    width:140px;
}

#stylized input
{
    float:left;
    font-size:12px;
    padding:4px 2px;
    border:solid 1px #aacfe4;
    width:200px;
    margin:2px 0 20px 10px;
}

#stylized button
{
    clear:both;
    margin-left:150px;
    width:125px;
    height:31px;
    background:#666666 url(img/button.png) no-repeat;
    text-align:center;
    line-height:31px;
    color:#FFFFFF;
    font-size:11px;
    font-weight:bold;
}