In this tutorial, I’ll show you the best way to create a two-column Pardot form. This is a follow up on my original post How to Create a 2 Column Pardot Form. By popular request, this new method includes a way to make certain form fields full width and is fully responsive. All you have to do is add CSS classes to your form fields and copy & paste the CSS provided into Pardot.
Add CSS classes to your form fields
The first step is to add CSS classes to your form fields. We will be using three different classes within the forms:
- form-col-1: Add this to form fields that will be in the left column.
- form-col-2: Add this to form fields that will be in the right column.
- form-col-full: Add this to form fields that you want in a single, full-width column.
To add a class to a form field, navigate to the fields tab of your form, click on the pencil icon to edit the form field. Then, click on the advanced tab and enter the class name in the CSS classes field.
Repeat this process until all form fields have one of the three classes. Here’s an outline of what my sample form looks like, where all the fields are in two columns except for the email field which is full width.
Edit the Form HTML
By default, every form field within your form will be wrapped in paragraph tags (<p></p>). This is not ideal when it comes to creating two-column forms, but it’s easy to update.
Navigate to your layout template and click on the Form tab. Change the paragraph tag to a DIV and close it right after the error message fields, as illustrated below.
Alternatively, replace the ENTIRE content within the form tab with the code below.
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<form accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" action="%%form-action-url%%" class="form" id="pardot-form"> %%form-opening-general-content%% %%form-if-thank-you%% %%form-javascript-focus%% %%form-thank-you-content%% %%form-thank-you-code%% %%form-end-if-thank-you%% %%form-if-display-form%% %%form-before-form-content%% %%form-if-error%% <p class="errors">Please correct the errors below:</p> %%form-end-if-error%% %%form-start-loop-fields%% <div class="form-field %%form-field-css-classes%% %%form-field-class-type%% %%form-field-class-required%% %%form-field-class-hidden%% %%form-field-class-no-label%% %%form-field-class-error%% %%form-field-dependency-css%%"> %%form-if-field-label%% <label class="field-label" for="%%form-field-id%%">%%form-field-label%%</label> %%form-end-if-field-label%% %%form-field-input%% %%form-if-field-description%% <span class="description">%%form-field-description%%</span> %%form-end-if-field-description%% <div id="error_for_%%form-field-id%%" style="display:none"></div> %%form-field-if-error%% <p class="error no-label">%%form-field-error-message%%</p> %%form-field-end-if-error%% </div> %%form-end-loop-fields%% %%form-spam-trap-field%% <!-- forces IE5-8 to correctly submit UTF8 content --> <input name="_utf8" type="hidden" value="☃" /> <p class="submit"> <input type="submit" accesskey="s" value="%%form-submit-button-text%%" %%form-submit-disabled%%/> </p> %%form-after-form-content%% %%form-end-if-display-form%% %%form-javascript-link-target-top%% </form> |
Add the CSS
Next, you need to add the following CSS in Pardot. You can add this in the layout template or within the form editor under look and feel > above form.
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<style type="text/css"> body form.form div.form-col-1 { float: left !important; clear: left !important; width: 49% !important; padding-left: 0 !important; margin-right: 0 !important; margin-left: 0 !important; padding-bottom:10px; } body form.form div.form-col-2 { float: right !important; clear: right !important; width: 49% !important; padding-right: 0 !important; padding-left: 0 !important; margin-right: 0 !important; margin-left: 0 !important; padding-bottom:10px; } body form.form div.form-col-full { width: 100%; padding-right: 0 !important; padding-left: 0 !important; margin-right: 0 !important; margin-left: 0 !important; padding-bottom:10px; } body form.form input.text, body form.form select { width: 100% !important; } /* Captcha fix */ form.form .pd-captcha { position: relative !important; width: 190px !important; left: 0 !important; display: block !important; height: 150px !important; } </style> |
Here’s what my example form looks like with all the CSS added.
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58 comment(s)
Yee Khang
Nevermind! I figured it out, it was a setting in the template form. THANKS!
Yee Khang
Great help!! So happy to have found this page. I had one question, if I'm looking on the landing page on my phone, I only see the email & submit button. Is there a way to make it show or is this something pardot is doing? Thanks for the help!
Jenna Molby
to Yee Khang
Hi Yee, The code is set up to be responsive. Is your landing page responsive? If you're still having trouble, email [email protected] with a link to your landing page and I can take a look. Cheers, Jenna
Shay
to Jenna Molby
Hi Jenna, this is a great post! I've followed your post and have a nice responsive form. However, I was wondering how you would make the error message text colour red ? I've tried adding the following code, but no luck. Any help would be appreciated! #pardot-form span.error { color: #FF8989; font-size: 8px; width: 100% margin-bottom: 0.1em; font-weight: 40; border-radius: 8px; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; } }
Jenna Molby
to Shay
Hi Shay, Thank you! Try changing your selector to #pardot-form .error. If that doesn't work there might be some other CSS on the page that is overriding your CSS. Cheers, Jenna
Carolin
HI Jenna. How do you put the Submit Button in the middle? Thanks
Jenna Molby
to Carolin
Hi Carolin, Adding this CSS should do the trick body form.form p.submit { text-align: center !important; margin:0 !important; } body form.form input[type=submit] { margin-right:0 !important; margin-left:0 !important; } Cheers, Jenna
Jasmin
When I copy in the CSS by either method it just adds code to the page, it doesn't except it as actual code.
Jenna Molby
to Jasmin
Hi Jasmin, Make sure you are wrapping the CSS with the style tags <style> THE CODE HERE </style>. Cheers, Jenna
Annaleece
Hi there. Thanks for this however when I paste the above CSS code, it just appears as text. Is there a particular section or additional coding required? Thank you
Jenna Molby
to Annaleece
Hi Annaleece, Make sure you are wrapping the CSS with the style tags <style> THE CODE HERE </style>. Cheers, Jenna