I would like to have a background for a legend
field within a fieldset
. And I want it to take up the full width, but only within the fieldset. If I use legend {width: 100%}
it will be wider than the fieldset
.
Here is an example, runnable in JSFiddle:
<html>
<head>
<style>
fieldset {
border:0;
outline: 1px solid gray;
}
legend {
font-weight:bold;
background: orange;
width: 100%
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<fieldset>
<legend>Legend</legend>
Content of Fieldset
</fieldset>
</body>
</html>
Is there any way I can make the legend
only fill up the width within the fieldset
?
It sounds like a simple padding problem, I think you can easily solve it using a reset or setting the padding in the
legend
:See: http://jsfiddle.net/TAvRF/1/
You can use
box-sizing: border-box
:Then you can add
padding
: http://jsfiddle.net/TAvRF/5/Although, just setting
padding: 0
and forgetting aboutbox-sizing: border-box
seems to work for me.. http://jsfiddle.net/TAvRF/6/