Dropdown with a form inside with twitter-bootstrap

Question

I have a Dropdown in my TopBar, built with the Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework.

I have 3 problems with it that I can't find any solution to:

1. The text and password input fields are far too big, how can I adjust them? Making the dropdown box bigger would be OK too.
2. The labels for the fields are too dark, how can I lighten them up a bit?
3. The Dropdown is closing when I click into one of the fields. I have to reopen it and then I can type until clicking in the next field. The values are preserved even when the dropdown is closed. How can I make it stay open?

Here is a screenshot of problems 1 and 2:

Also here is the HTML for the TopBar as it is now.

<div class='topbar-wrapper'>
  <div class='topbar'>
    <div class='topbar-inner'>
      <div class='container'>
        <h3>
          <a href="/">Webworld</a>
        </h3>
        <ul class='nav'>
          <li>FILLER...</li>
        </ul>
        <ul class='nav secondary-nav'>
          <li class='dropdown' data-dropdown='dropdown'>
            <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle">Login</a>
            <div class='dropdown-menu' id='signin-dropdown'>
              <form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/sessions" method="post"><div style="margin:0;padding:0;display:inline"><input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="&#x2713;" /><input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="4L/A2ZMYkhTD3IiNDMTuB/fhPRvyCNGEsaZocUUpw40=" /></div>
                <fieldset class='textbox'>
                  <label id='js-username'>
                    <span>Username</span>
                    <input autocomplete="on" id="username" name="username" type="text" />
                  </label>
                  <label id='password'>
                    <span>Passwort</span>
                    <input id="userpassword" name="userpassword" type="password" />
                  </label>
                </fieldset>
                <fieldset class='subchk'>
                  <input name="commit" type="submit" value="Log In" />
                </fieldset>
              </form>
            </div>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

There hidden input is needed by rails and autogenerated.

I've already tried to copy the implementation of the login form that twitter uses, but when I tried that, the TopBar is about 250px in height and the content of the dropdown is open, not closeable.

I have no custom CSS or JavaScript so far, except for the top-padding of 40px in the body as suggested by the bootstrap docs.

Can someone help me with this?

Solution 1

Try adding the code below somewhere in your javascript. It should stop it from happening.

  $('.dropdown-menu').find('form').click(function (e) {
    e.stopPropagation();
  });

Solution 2

(Twitter Bootstrap 2.x)

You may want to move the contents of style="" to your stylesheets...

If user entered wrong password:

add class open to li class="dropdown open"

and class error to fieldset class="control-group error"

<ul class="nav pull-right">
  <li class="dropdown">
    <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Login <b class="caret"></b></a>
    <div class="dropdown-menu">
      <form action="" id="form_login" style="margin: 0; padding: 3px 15px" accept-charset="utf-8" method="post">
        <fieldset class="control-group">
          <label for="form_email" class="control-label">Email address</label>
          <div class="controls">
            <div class="input-prepend" style="white-space: nowrap">
              <span class="add-on"><i class="icon-envelope"></i></span>
              <input type="email" name="email" id="form_email" autocomplete="on" class="span2">
            </div>
          </div>
        </fieldset>
        <fieldset class="control-group">
          <label for="form_password" class="control-label">Password</label>
          <div class="controls">
            <div class="input-prepend" style="white-space: nowrap">
              <span class="add-on"><i class="icon-lock"></i></span>
              <input type="password" name="password" id="form_password" class="span2">
            </div>
          </div>
        </fieldset>
        <label class="checkbox">
          <input type="checkbox" name="remember" value="true"> Remember me
        </label>
        <p class="navbar-text">
          <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Login</button>
        </p>
      </form>
    </div>
  </li>
</ul>

You don't need any extra css or javascript to make this look nice (with TB2.x)

Solution 3

In case you don't want to stop propagation of your events, or that solution didn't work for you, you can add this code somewhere near initialization of bootstrap-dropdown:

$('html').off('click.dropdown.data-api');
$('html').on('click.dropdown.data-api', function(e) {
  if(!$(e.target).parents().is('.dropdown-menu form')) {
    $('.dropdown').removeClass('open');
  }
});

Solution 4

For your third question - In your bootstrap-dropdown.js comment source code row

$('html').on('click.dropdown.data-api', clearMenus)

and write there this:

$(document).bind('click', function(e) {
    var $clicked = $(e.target);
    if (!$clicked.hasClass("dropdown-menu") &&
            !$clicked.parents().hasClass("dropdown-menu")){
        clearMenus();
    }
});

Solution 5

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/bootstrap.css#L1559

max-width is set to 220px, remove the attribute and it will stretch itself.

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Comments

[NobbZ]

OK, defining the styles inline :D Im curious why I have not seen that myself :) But the problem with the closing box remains.

[NobbZ]

This is really solution for problem 1 and works much better than the solution mentioned by marimaf, but problem 3 remains unresolved :( And especially #3 is the most annoying.

[Lasse Christiansen]

Perfect, worked for me too - however, I think you are missing ); to proper end the definition of the function to execute when the click event is triggered :)

[Gabriel Llamas]

This is no longer valid, refer to kajo's answer

[Matthew]

If you add the selector for this max-width attribute it would make the answer more clear since the link you added is dead.

[srt8driver]

Having the same problem as this user but these solutions are not working: stackoverflow.com/questions/18306433/… Decided to open up a separate question rather than this old one in case the issue is different for newer builds.

[drzaus]

if you don't want to modify an externally maintained plugin, @crimefighter's solution can accomplish the same thing