Contact Form 7 (CF7) is one of the most popular plugins available for WordPress. It allows users to quickly create customised forms, anywhere on a WordPress website. While the forms are easy to create and implement, the fields within them are styled minimally – allowing them to blend in with most websites. The appearance of…
Contact Form 7 Form Structure We used Firebug to produce the following diagram which shows the overall structure of the default CF7 form we are using in this article. The diagram shows how each element of the form is created using standard HTML form elements and how those elements are arranged in relation to each…
The Contact Form 7 plugin uses very minimal CSS styling to allow CF7 forms to blend in with most websites. Default CF7 CSS style: div.wpcf7 { margin: 0; padding: 0; } div.wpcf7-response-output { margin: 2em 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em 1em; } div.wpcf7-mail-sent-ok { border: 2px solid #398f14; } div.wpcf7-mail-sent-ng { border: 2px…
Each CF7 form has a unique id which can be targeted in your CSS changes. Use Firebug or Chrome Dev Tools to find this unique id in your CF7 form. Then target only this CF7 form using CSS heirachy as follows: You can also add id and class attributes to a CF7 form by adding…
Some users of Contact Form 7 prefer to use an image as their form button, instead of the default submit button. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to accomplish this using Contact Form 7 and our popular Contact Form 7 Skins plugin. But before we get started, there are a few things you…
One of the preferred styling options of Contact Form 7 users is to display commonly used form fields like “name” and “email” side by side on a single line. However many users find this task challenging due to their limited knowledge of HTML and CSS. CF7 Skins Ready, an add-on for our popular Contact Form…
There are a number of common stying options that many Contact Form 7 (CF7) users like to add to their forms, like evenly spaced columns & and several fields on a single line. However adding these styles requires detailed HTML & CSS knowledge which is beyond the current skills of many WordPress users. CF7 Skins…
