Forms

Examples and usage guidelines for form input styles, layout options, and custom components for creating a wide variety of forms.

Input fields

Input fields refer specifically to the text input fields, which are used to obtain data from the users.

Select

Select fields components are used for collecting user provided information from a list of options.

File

File Input is a field which the user can use to upload one or more files (photos, documents or any other file type) from local storage.

Checkbox

The checkbox is a component used to allow a user to make multiple choices that are broadly used in forms and surveys.

Radios

A Radio Button is a component used to allow a user to make a single choice among a number of options (whereas Checkboxes are used for selecting multiple options).

Switch

A switch is a simple component used for activating one of two predefined options. Commonly used as an on/off button.

Range

A Range is an interactive component that lets the user swiftly slide through possible values spread over the desired range.

Validation

Provide valuable, actionable feedback to your users with HTML5 form validation, via browser default behaviors or custom styles and JavaScript.

Basic example

A basic example of a simple login form with input fields (email and password), checkbox and submit button.

Checkbox and "forgot password" link are positioned inline by using 2 column grid layout.

Note: Most of the demo examples have a fixed width for the demo purpose. Included code examples do not have a fixed width, so they'll naturally fill the full width of its parent element. To input the width of the form place it in the grid, use the sizing utilities, or set the width inline.

Every group of form fields should reside in a form element. Bootstrap 5 material design provides no default styling for the form element, but there are some powerful browser features that are provided by default.

Login form

Typical login form with additional register buttons.

Email address

Password

Remember me

Forgot password?

Not a member? Register

or sign up with:

Register form

Typical register form with additional register buttons.

First name

Last name

Email address

Password

Subscribe to our newsletter

or sign up with:

Contact form

Typical contact form with textarea input as a message field.

Subscription form

A typical subscription form used when subscribing to the newsletter.

Checkout form

IAn example of the extended form with typical checkout inputs.

First name

Last name

Company name

Address

Phone

Additional information

Create an account?

Login-register

By using pills you can place login and register forms into a single component.

or:

Email or username

Password

Remember me

Forgot password?

Not a member? Register

or:

Name

Username

Password

Repeat password

I have read and agree to the terms

Layout

There are multiple ways to structure forms and provide them the desired layout. Have a look at the examples below to learn more about forms layout.

Utilities

Margin utilities are the easiest way to add some structure to forms. They provide basic grouping of labels, inputs, optional form text, and form validation messaging. We recommend sticking to margin-bottom utilities, and using a single direction throughout the form for consistency.

Feel free to build your forms however you like, with fieldsets, Divs, or nearly any other element.

In the example below, we add .mb-4 class to provide a proper margin between two input fields.

Name

Email address

Form grid

More complex forms can be built using our grid classes. Use these for form layouts that require multiple columns, varied widths, and additional alignment options.

Name

Email address

First name

Last name

Email address

Gutters

By adding gutter modifier classes, you can have input over the gutter width in as well the inline as block direction.

Name

Email address

Name

Email address

Column sizing

As shown in the previous examples, our grid system allows you to place any number of .cols within a .row. They’ll split the available width equally between them. You may also pick a subset of your columns to take up more or less space, while the remaining .cols equally split the rest, with specific column classes like .col-sm-7.

Name