I'm just doing the trick of float
ing the buttons to the right.
This way the Prev
button is left of the Next
button, but the Next
comes first in the HTML structure:
.f {
float: right;
}
.clr {
clear: both;
}
<form action="action" method="get">
<input type="text" name="abc">
<div id="buttons">
<input type="submit" class="f" name="next" value="Next">
<input type="submit" class="f" name="prev" value="Prev">
<div class="clr"></div><!-- This div prevents later elements from floating with the buttons. Keeps them 'inside' div#buttons -->
</div>
</form>
Benefits over other suggestions: no JavaScript code, accessible, and both buttons remain type="submit"
.
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I'm not the poster of this answer, but at the time of writing this, this is the most voted answer by far in both positive and negative votes (+1035 -17), and it's still marked as accepted answer (probably because the original poster of the question is the one who wrote this answer).
As already noted many times in the comments, this answer does not work on most browsers anymore (and seems to be failing to do that since 2013).
After over an hour of tweaking, testing, and trying different styles of markup, I think I may have a decent solution. The requirements for this particular project were:
- Inputs must be on their own line.
- Checkbox inputs need to align vertically with the label text similarly (if not identically) across all browsers.
- If the label text wraps, it needs to be indented (so no wrapping down underneath the checkbox).
Before I get into any explanation, I'll just give you the code:
label {
display: block;
padding-left: 15px;
text-indent: -15px;
}
input {
width: 13px;
height: 13px;
padding: 0;
margin:0;
vertical-align: bottom;
position: relative;
top: -1px;
*overflow: hidden;
}
<form>
<div>
<label><input type="checkbox" /> Label text</label>
</div>
</form>
Here is the working example in JSFiddle.
This code assumes that you're using a reset like Eric Meyer's that doesn't override form input margins and padding (hence putting margin and padding resets in the input CSS). Obviously in a live environment you'll probably be nesting/overriding stuff to support other input elements, but I wanted to keep things simple.
Things to note:
- The
*overflow
declaration is an inline IE hack (the star-property hack). Both IE 6 and 7 will notice it, but Safari and Firefox will properly ignore it. I think it might be valid CSS, but you're still better off with conditional comments; just used it for simplicity.
- As best I can tell, the only
vertical-align
statement that was consistent across browsers was vertical-align: bottom
. Setting this and then relatively positioning upwards behaved almost identically in Safari, Firefox and IE with only a pixel or two of discrepancy.
- The major problem in working with alignment is that IE sticks a bunch of mysterious space around input elements. It isn't padding or margin, and it's damned persistent. Setting a width and height on the checkbox and then
overflow: hidden
for some reason cuts off the extra space and allows IE's positioning to act very similarly to Safari and Firefox.
- Depending on your text sizing, you'll no doubt need to adjust the relative positioning, width, height, and so forth to get things looking right.
Hope this helps someone else! I haven't tried this specific technique on any projects other than the one I was working on this morning, so definitely pipe up if you find something that works more consistently.
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I believe this to be a current design decision with SharePoint 2007, wherein they believe that if you are uploading multiple documents there should NOT be one catch all for the content type. I could be wrong on this, but I think this may be an enhancement in SharePoint 2010