Design a Clean Form with Floating Labels in Bootstrap 5

Bootstrap 5 comes with built-in floating labels, but the default inputs can feel a bit too tall for compact forms.

Here’s a cleaner version with a more balanced height and a simple card layout.

The HTML structure:

<link
  href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css"
  rel="stylesheet"
/>

<div class="container py-4">
  <div class="row justify-content-center">
    <div class="col-md-6">
      <div class="card bg-white shadow-sm">
        <div class="card-header h6 py-3 fw-bold">
          Register
        </div>

        <div class="card-body">
          <form method="#" autocomplete="off">
            <div class="row">
              <div class="col-md-6">
                <div class="form-floating mb-3">
                  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="first_name" name="first_name" placeholder="First name">
                  <label for="first_name">First name</label>
                </div>
              </div>

              <div class="col-md-6">
                <div class="form-floating mb-3">
                  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="last_name" name="last_name" placeholder="Last name">
                  <label for="last_name">Last name</label>
                </div>
              </div>
            </div>

            <div class="form-floating mb-3">
              <input type="email" class="form-control" id="email" name="email" placeholder="Email address">
              <label for="email">Email address</label>
            </div>

            <div class="form-floating mb-3">
              <input type="password" class="form-control" id="password" name="password" placeholder="Password">
              <label for="password">Password</label>
            </div>

            <div class="form-floating mb-3">
              <input type="password" class="form-control" id="password_confirmation" name="password_confirmation" placeholder="Confirm Password">
              <label for="password_confirmation">Confirm Password</label>
            </div>

            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary w-100">
              Register
            </button>
          </form>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

We need just a little bit of custom CSS:

.form-floating > .form-control {
    height: 48px;
    min-height: 48px;
    padding: 1rem 0.75rem 0.25rem;
  }

  .form-floating > label {
    padding: 0.75rem;
  }

  .form-control:focus {
    box-shadow: none;
  }

And here's our nice form! 😊