Question

I have a dropdown in bootstrap, but I don’t know how to center a form I have within it.

Here is my code;

<div class="navbar navbar-fixed-top">
  <div class="navbar-inner">
    <div class="container">
      <a class="btn btn-navbar" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse">
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
      </a>
      <a class="brand" href="#">Testing, 123</a>
      <div class="nav-collapse">
        <ul class="nav">
          <li class="active"><a href="#"><i class="icon-home icon-white"></i> Home</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
          <li class="dropdown">
            <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Dropdown <b class="caret"></b></a>
            <div class="dropdown-menu">
              <form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/sessions" method="post">
                <fieldset class='textbox login'>
                  <label id='js-username'>
                    <span>Username</span>
                    <input autocomplete="on" id="username" name="username" type="text" size="20px"/>
                  </label>
                  <label id='password'>
                    <span>Password</span>
                    <input id="userpassword" name="userpassword" type="password" />
                  </label>
                </fieldset>
                <fieldset class='subchk'>
                  <input name="commit" type="submit" value="Log In" />
                </fieldset>
              </form>
            </div>
          </li>
        </ul>
        <form class="navbar-search pull-right" action="">
          <input type="text" class="search-query span2" placeholder="Search">
        </form>
      </div><!-- /.nav-collapse -->
    </div><!-- /.container -->
  </div><!-- /.navbar-inner -->
</div><!-- /.navbar -->

I have adjusted the width of the dropdown in the css to fit my form, I just can’t work out how to center the form within the dropdown.

Answer 1

Just create a class with some padding and add it to your form tag, like so:

CSS

.wrap {
    padding:15px;
}

HTML

<form class="wrap" accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/sessions" method="post">...</form>

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/a52UY/