I have three controls on my web form of three drop down lists.
I want to create a graphical \"box\" around these controls. The reason for this is that selecting these co
<form>
<fieldset>
<legend>Personalia:</legend>
Name: <input type="text"><br>
Email: <input type="text"><br>
Date of birth: <input type="text">
</fieldset>
</form>
A fieldset
with a legend
provides a visual and semantic grouping for form controls. You can then style this as desired with CSS. A fieldset
is somewhat unique in that the legend
is capable of visually interrupting the border of its parent fieldset
(possible with other elements, but difficult).
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/NUMcr/1/
<fieldset>
<legend>Group 1</legend>
<input type="text" />
<asp:Textbox runat="Server" id="txt1" />
<!-- etc -->
</fieldset>
fieldset {
margin: 8px;
border: 1px solid silver;
padding: 8px;
border-radius: 4px;
}
legend {
padding: 2px;
}
There is the fieldset
HTML element, which is made for this specific purpose: http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/fieldset. If you are set on using CSS only, you could do something like this:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<h1>Step 1</h1>
<div style="border: 1px solid #000000;">
<input type="text" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</div>
</body>
</html>
You could then style the h1
(or whatever type of HTML element you'd like to use for the header) and the div
containing the input elements.