Bootstrap 3 - Form horizontal not working

Question

I'm using Django with CrispyForms and I'm updating an old project of mine to BS3.

The only thing I didn't find out how to adapt are form-horizontal. My forms used to look like this:

Now the label is always on top of the input - like it was before with form-vertical.

I read some posts on Stack, googled around but nobody has a working crispy answer for me!

The weirdest thing is that the Bootstrap guys say that they did not change or remove this class.

Any ideas what I can do to get my old, lovely horizontal` forms back?

Thanks!

Update:

CrispyForms produces the following, even with bootstrap3 as template pack:

<div class="form-group" id="div_id_title">
    <label class="control-label  requiredField" for="id_title">Titel
        <span class="asteriskField">*</span>
    </label>
    <div class="controls ">
        <input type="text" name="title" maxlength="65" id="id_title" class="textinput textInput form-control"> 
    </div>
</div>

Answer 1

Take a look here:

http://django-crispy-forms.readthedocs.org/en/latest/crispy_tag_forms.html#bootstrap3-horizontal-forms

You should add

helper.label_class = 'col-lg-x' #for example 'col-lg-2'
helper.field_class = 'col-lg-x' #for example 'col-lg-10'

BS3 has a 12 column grid system, more info about that here http://getbootstrap.com/css/#grid

That made the form horizontal but unfortunately the labels align to the left, I'm trying to fix that now.

UPDATE: If you have issues with the vertical spacing between the fields add a row css class to the outer div of every field, the html output:

<div class="form-group row" id="div_id_title">

    ###labels HTML###

</div>

Probably a bug on the field.html template for bootstrap3.

Answer 2

Did you put the form-control inside form-group?

<form class="form-horizontal" role="form">
<div class="form-group">
    <label lass="col-sm-2 control-label">Password</label>
    <div class="col-sm-10">
      <input type="password" class="form-control" id="inputPassword" placeholder="Password">
    </div>
</div>..
</form>

Demo: http://bootply.com/104095

Answer 3

I spent a few hours trying to figure this out. For me, this worked. You have to go into the project settings.py and add the line:

CRISPY_TEMPLATE_PACK = 'bootstrap3'

After searched thru the docs, I ended up find that I had to do this in the crispy-forms source code itself:

       if (
            TEMPLATE_PACK == 'bootstrap3'
            and not is_checkbox(field)
            and not is_file(field)
        ):
            css_class += ' form-control'