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Hi,

I am having trouble styling the radio buttons and check boxes on this form.

I want to reduce the gap between the label Sex and the radio buttons so that

the buttons sit underneath 'T' in IT, also wish to reduce the gaps between the buttons and the words Male and Female.

I wish to do the same for the check boxes.

Would be very grateful for your help.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Temporary</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{  margin: 0; 
   padding:0; 
}
p
{  margin: 0 0 10px 0;
   padding:0;
}
form
{  font: 13px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
   background: #eee;
   margin: 20px;
   padding: 10px 20px;
   width: 330px;
}
form ol
{  list-style: none;
   margin: 0;
   padding: 0;
}
form li
{  padding: 6px;
   background: #e1e1e1;
   margin-bottom: 1px;
}
form label
{  float: left;
   width: 70px;
   text-align: right;	
   margin-right: 7px;
   color: #0066CC;
   line-height: 23px;
}
form input
{  padding: 4px;
   font: 13px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
   border: 1px solid #999999;
   width: 200px;
}
form input:focus
{  border: 1px solid #666;
   background: #e3f1f1;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>

  <form>

    <p>Upload your educational and employment details:</p>

      <ol>
        
        <li>
        	<label for="name">Name</label>
        	<input type="text" name="name" id="name" />
        </li>
        
        <li>
        	<label for="email">Email</label>
        	<input type="text" name="email" id="email" />
        </li>
        
        <li>
        	<label for="jobs">Job Sought</label>
                <select name="jobs">
                  <option value="clerical">Clerical</option>
                  <option value="teaching">Teaching</option>
                  <option value="computer" selected="selected">IT</option>
                  <option value="driver">Driver</option>
                  <option value="building">Construction</option>
                </select>
        </li>
        
        <li>
        	<label for="sex">Sex</label>
                <input type="radio" name="sex" value="male" /> Male<br />
                <input type="radio" name="sex" value="female" /> Female
        </li>

        <li>
        	<label for="education">Education</label>
                <input type="checkbox" name="education" 
                       value="school" /> Secondary School<br />
                <input type="checkbox" name="education" 
                       value="college" /> Further Education College<br />
                <input type="checkbox" name="education" 
                       value="university" /> Higher Education
        </li>

      </ol>

    </form>

</body>
</html>

 

In your css you have:

form input
{  padding: 4px;
   font: 13px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
   border: 1px solid #999999;
   width: 200px;
}

 

Take the width off there. But then you are left with some of the inputs and labels dropping down a line... which i'm guessing is what you were trying to fix to start with...

 

To get all the labels in one column and the other stuff in another you will need to either nest lists within you existing lists, or just use a table.. as what your trying to do is layout you stuff in a table fashion..

 

<table>
            <tr>
                <td class="label">Name</td>
                <td class="inputs"><input type="text" name="name" id="name" /></td>
            </tr>
            
            ... etc etc

 

 

Now just style accordingly with your css

 

Radio buttons and checkboxes (as well as the file [browse...] button) are styled by the browser and your desktop themes.  Every browser displays those input methods differently, so in order to maintain some sort of uniformity, you'll need to use javascript.

 

http://ryanfait.com/resources/custom-checkboxes-and-radio-buttons/

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