Forms
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Creating a form in Foundation is designed to be easy but extremely flexible. Forms are built with a combination of standard form elements, as well as grid rows and columns or cells.
Text Inputs
These input types create a text field: text, date, datetime, datetime-local, email, month, number, password, search, tel, time, url, and week.
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<form>
<div class="grid-container">
<div class="grid-x grid-padding-x">
<div class="medium-6 cell">
<label>Input Label
<input type="text" placeholder=".medium-6.cell">
</label>
</div>
<div class="medium-6 cell">
<label>Input Label
<input type="text" placeholder=".medium-6.cell">
</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</form>Number Inputs
In most desktop browsers, <input type="number"> elements will have up/down controls inside them, which increment and decrement the number inside the field. These are called spin buttons. You can disable them by setting the $input-number-spinners Sass variable to false.
<label>
How many puppies?
<input type="number" value="100">
</label>Text Areas
The <textarea> element creates a multi-line text input.
<label>
What books did you read over summer break?
<textarea placeholder="None"></textarea>
</label>Select Menus
Use select menus to combine many choices into one menu.
<label>Select Menu
<select>
<option value="husker">Husker</option>
<option value="starbuck">Starbuck</option>
<option value="hotdog">Hot Dog</option>
<option value="apollo">Apollo</option>
</select>
</label>Add the multiple attribute to allow more than one option to be selected. Hold down the Ctrl (windows) / Command (Mac) button to select multiple options.
<label>Multiple Select Menu
<select multiple>
<option value="showboat">Showboat</option>
<option value="redwing">Redwing</option>
<option value="narcho">Narcho</option>
<option value="hardball">Hardball</option>
</select>
</label>Checkboxes and Radio Buttons
Use groups of checkboxes when the user may select multiple choices from a list, and use radio buttons when the user must select just one choice.
Wrap a group of checkboxes or radio buttons in a <fieldset> element, and give them a common label using the <legend> element. Each individual control should also have its own label, created using a typical <label>.
<div class="grid-x grid-padding-x">
<fieldset class="large-5 cell">
<legend>Choose Your Favorite</legend>
<input type="radio" name="pokemon" value="Red" id="pokemonRed" required><label for="pokemonRed">Red</label>
<input type="radio" name="pokemon" value="Blue" id="pokemonBlue"><label for="pokemonBlue">Blue</label>
<input type="radio" name="pokemon" value="Yellow" id="pokemonYellow"><label for="pokemonYellow">Yellow</label>
</fieldset>
<fieldset class="large-7 cell">
<legend>Check these out</legend>
<input id="checkbox1" type="checkbox"><label for="checkbox1">Checkbox 1</label>
<input id="checkbox2" type="checkbox"><label for="checkbox2">Checkbox 2</label>
<input id="checkbox3" type="checkbox"><label for="checkbox3">Checkbox 3</label>
</fieldset>
</div>Fieldset Styles
To encourage their use as an accessibility tool, the <fieldset> element is no longer styled by default. Those styles are now contained in the .fieldset class.
<fieldset class="fieldset">
<legend>Check these out</legend>
<input id="checkbox12" type="checkbox"><label for="checkbox12">Checkbox 1</label>
<input id="checkbox22" type="checkbox"><label for="checkbox22">Checkbox 2</label>
<input id="checkbox32" type="checkbox"><label for="checkbox32">Checkbox 3</label>
</fieldset>Help Text (Accessibility)
Place help text below a field to clarify its purpose. Whenever you use help text, give the text a unique ID, and add the attribute aria-describedby to the input. Doing so associates the helper text to the input. A screen reader then can read the helper text when the user focusses on the input.
<label>Password
<input type="password" aria-describedby="passwordHelpText">
</label>
<p class="help-text" id="passwordHelpText">Your password must have at least 10 characters, a number, and an Emoji.</p>Your password must have at least 10 characters, a number, and an Emoji.
Label Positioning
Sometimes you want a form with labels to the left of your inputs. Piece of cake! You can put the label inside a different cell or column to the left of the input. Then use the class .text-right or .float-right (or add text-align: right yourself) to realign the label.
In a right-to-left environment, use .float-left instead.
<form>
<div class="grid-x grid-padding-x">
<div class="small-3 cell">
<label for="right-label" class="text-right">Label</label>
</div>
<div class="small-9 cell">
<input type="text" id="right-label" placeholder="Right-aligned text input">
</div>
</div>
</form>Add the .middle class to vertically align the label with its input.
<form>
<div class="grid-x grid-padding-x">
<div class="small-3 cell">
<label for="middle-label" class="text-right middle">Label</label>
</div>
<div class="small-9 cell">
<input type="text" id="middle-label" placeholder="Right- and middle-aligned text input">
</div>
</div>
</form>Inline Labels and Buttons
To attach extra text or controls to the left or right of an input field, wrap the elements in an .input-group container, then add these classes to the elements inside:
.input-group-fieldon the text field..input-group-labelon a text label..input-group-buttonon a button. Place the button inside this wrapper.
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<div class="input-group">
<span class="input-group-label">$</span>
<input class="input-group-field" type="number">
<div class="input-group-button">
<input type="submit" class="button" value="Submit">
</div>
</div>File Upload Button
Use <input type="file"> to create a file upload button. For security reasons, most browsers don't let you style file inputs. To work around that, we can style a form label as a button, and point it to the <input>. To properly mask the input, the .show-for-sr class is added.
<label for="exampleFileUpload" class="button">Upload File</label>
<input type="file" id="exampleFileUpload" class="show-for-sr">Custom Controls (Accessibility)
Custom form controls, like date pickers, range sliders, or switches need some extra attention to be made accessible. Our custom inputs, such as the range slider and switch, do most of this work for you.
Custom inputs with labels or help text need the attributes aria-labelledby and aria-describedby added to them, so screen readers know how to describe the control.
<label id="ageLabel">Age</label>
<div class="slider" aria-labelledby="ageLabel" aria-describedby="ageHelpText" data-slider data-initial-start="50" data-end="200">
<span class="slider-handle" data-slider-handle role="slider" tabindex="1"></span>
<span class="slider-fill" data-slider-fill></span>
<input type="hidden">
</div>
<p id="ageHelpText">How old are you?</p>Sass Reference
Variables
The default styles of this component can be customized using these Sass variables in your project's settings file.