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The Best Way to Create a 2 Column Pardot Form

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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:

  1. form-col-1: Add this to form fields that will be in the left column.
  2. form-col-2: Add this to form fields that will be in the right column.
  3. 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. 


%%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%%
			
Please correct the errors below:

		%%form-end-if-error%%
		
		%%form-start-loop-fields%%
			

				%%form-if-field-label%%
					
				%%form-end-if-field-label%%
				
				%%form-field-input%%
				%%form-if-field-description%%
					%%form-field-description%%
				%%form-end-if-field-description%%
			
			
			%%form-field-if-error%%
				
%%form-field-error-message%%

			%%form-field-end-if-error%%
		    

		%%form-end-loop-fields%%
		
		%%form-spam-trap-field%%
		
		
		
		
		

			
		

	%%form-after-form-content%%
	
%%form-end-if-display-form%%

%%form-javascript-link-target-top%%

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.

Here’s what my example form looks like with all the CSS added.



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I'm a Freelance Marketing Operations Consultant With 15 years of experience in Marketing Operations, I’ve worked with a wide range of tools including Salesforce, Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot), Marketo, and many other sales and marketing platforms. I help teams optimize their tech stacks, improve processes, and get accurate, actionable reporting. Whether it’s setting up your Marketing Automation Platform, building Salesforce reports, managing lead lifecycles, tracking attribution, or integrating your tech stack, I ensure everything is aligned to drive real results.

93 Comments

  1. Melinda Moyle Reply

    Newbie here, I seem to be missing something obvious as all but two of my fields have disappeared.
    I have replaced all the code in the Form tab with yours.
    I have then added your css code exactly as is onto the Layout tab on the layout template between the head tags.
    Is this correct? Do I leave “Include default CSS stylesheet (recommended)” ticked on or clear the tick

  3. LaToya Newell Reply

    Jenna! Just want to give you a shout out and say you are a true Pardot goddess!!! Thanks for being so amazing and sharing so freely!! ^_^)

  4. Gus Reply

    Hi Jenna,

    How to make this form mobile friendly.
    I am trying to make this look on the mobile in one column and computer screen as it is 2 column.

    • Jenna Molby Post Author

      Hi Gus, The CSS provided has a media query in it that looks like this: @media only screen and (max-width: 768px) you can play around with the max-width to make it stack on mobile. The width is dependent on how your landing page is structured. If you still can’t get it to stack on mobile, drop me an email at [email protected] with the link to the landing page and I can take a look for you. Cheers, Jenna

  5. Carolyn Reply

    Thanks for sharing this, I found it nice and easy to implement. Is there a piece missing about handling Pardot’s error messaging? I see that addressed in the older solution, but am having trouble with it here.

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