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10 CSS Form Examples


Written by David Appleyard, On 12th March 2008.
Filed in Articles, CSS, Layouts.



Forms can be greatly enhanced with a touch of CSS, making them more usable and far more visually attractive. Follow some of the examples below and you’ll be creating stunning CSS forms in no time at all.

1. Semantic Horizontal Form

Horizontal CSS Semantic Form

This form is coded in a semantic way and the elements are positioned next to eachother except for the last fieldset which spans the full width of the form below the 3 top fieldsets. It’s been tested in FF1.x, IE6 and Opera8. (looks a little quirky in IE5.x but still usable)

2. Nice Forms

Nice Forms

A great form, with graphical elements and colour to create a different and unique look. All done with CSS and semantic coding.

3. StylePhreak Simple CSS Form

Simple CSS Form

A simple form with regular alignment and unique lines to break up the different sections. This works well as a great base to start your own custom form from.

4. Veerle’s Blue CSS Form

Veerle Blue CSS Form

A simple blue form with rounded background corners, all styled in CSS and XHTML. The layout is pixel perfect, and the images can be customized to match your own requirements.

5. Who says CSS forms can’t be pretty?

Assemble Soft's CSS Form

A unique form with soft background images to complement the fields. It highlights many form possibilities, including a pop-up calendar for choosing a date. A related tutorial also accompanies the example.

5. Man in Blue: Form Examples

6. CSS Play - A form with style

7. The Form Garden

8. Prettier Accessible Forms

9. HTML form effects with CSS

10. A 2 column CSS form layout

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22 Comments


  1. spigot says:

    Thanks for the list. Besides being attractive, quite a few of these offer great techniques in usability. I’ll be checking back in when creating my next form. Thanks.

  2. Great showcase, it’s always nice to have some ideas about how to style forms and make them “work”

  3. Chudnutie says:

    I think second one is best.

  4. Jo Potts says:

    Thanks for the list.
    The second one is nice - but the version you’ve linked to is broken in mac safari and firefox. The new version is:

    http://www.badboy.ro/assets/articles/niceforms1.0/niceforms.html

  5. Thanks for pointing that out - I’ve changed the link.

  6. Joseph says:

    Definitely should have included the Wufoo Form Gallery. They’re great.

    http://wufoo.com/gallery/

  7. James says:

    There is some excellent forms here.

    Thanks for sharing.

  8. Stephen Ireland says:

    Another one to include for you- http://dnevnikeklektika.com/uni-form/

  9. Eric says:

    Thank you m8t!

    Great guide, going to study on it!

  10. WebpixIndia says:

    An excellent article. Helps me lot in my projects.

  11. Mowglitech says:

    Great collection.

  12. Mike Lawson says:

    Some great examples here, thanks for sharing.

  13. Helpful examples
    Thanks!

    - Shelon Padmore

  14. Leena Ajwani says:

    Good one. I will use it in my project

  15. vienna says:

    Already using it. Nice tips! Thanks a lot

  16. Nice simple design, we’ll use it in one of our project.

  17. The nice form is cool, im using it in my projects, it so happened that you have a list in your site so i just say hi

  18. Alex says:

    Excellent examples. Nice sample

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  20. Manoj says:

    Thanks for form css I have used it at my website.

    Thanks again

  21. Hamzah says:

    a fool in love makes no sense to me, but you are a fool if you don’t love, and you know what, I love those forms you’ve posted, and of course I did dl some of them.
    so, thanks and be happy.


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