https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/alignment-gf_left_half-and-gf_right_half-are-not-working-anymore Gravity Support Forums Topic: Alignment gf_left_half and gf_right_half are not working anymore ? en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:16:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/alignment-gf_left_half-and-gf_right_half-are-not-working-anymore#post-68863 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:43:51 +0000 Chris Hajer 68863@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>If you find that your custom CSS rules when added to your theme's style.css or custom.css do not appear to work, you need to be more specific with your rules, or you can always go nuclear with the <strong>!important</strong> rule. "important!" means "override any other rule which would apply to this selector." Here is a basic rundown of "important!":<br /> <a href="http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/f/blcssfaqimportn.htm" rel="nofollow">http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/f/blcssfaqimportn.htm</a></p> <p>Also, this is a very good overview of how and why the CSS rules<br /> "<strong>C</strong> ascade": <a href="http://css-tricks.com/specifics-on-css-specificity/" rel="nofollow">http://css-tricks.com/specifics-on-css-specificity/</a></p> <p>There are more technical documents online as well, but once you get the concept of specificity, you can learn to make your rules more specific than any other rule which might apply, so that your CSS 'wins' and you don't have to modify the plugin forms.css any longer.</p> <p>As always, we're happy to help if you post a link to your site and explain what's not working and what you expect. Thank you for sticking with it. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/alignment-gf_left_half-and-gf_right_half-are-not-working-anymore#post-68859 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:30:49 +0000 teajayo 68859@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi guys..... yes I have style.css as the main sheet and custom.css ... however, when I modify style.css which should override forms.css it doesn't. So I have to delete the stuff out of forms.css to get rid of those styles. These past to sites I've used gf on I know that isn't the exact correct way, but I don't plan on upgrading the form plugin for either of those sites. This next one I will be doing in the next couple days... I will try harder. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/alignment-gf_left_half-and-gf_right_half-are-not-working-anymore#post-68829 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:10:36 +0000 Chris Hajer 68829@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <blockquote><p> I have tried to use 'custom css' like the plugin options mention... but it didn't work for the last site I used gf on. </p></blockquote> <p>You should figure out why that did not work rather than modify the plugin's forms.css. As you know, because you modified the plugin files, upgrading is going to be problematic. I would focus on overriding the Gravity Forms CSS properly and not modify the plugin files. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/alignment-gf_left_half-and-gf_right_half-are-not-working-anymore#post-68814 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:39:44 +0000 David Peralty 68814@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Sorry, I guess I don't exactly understand. Do you mean your theme comes with a form.css that is messing things up or Gravity Forms? You can turn off Gravity Forms' output of CSS in Forms -&gt; Settings. As for your site's css, usually this is in style.css. Some themes use a custom.css but most people just have to put it in the bottom of their style.css because not every theme has a custom.css or pulls in rules from one if one exists. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/alignment-gf_left_half-and-gf_right_half-are-not-working-anymore#post-68813 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:32:52 +0000 teajayo 68813@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Ya...... it's all css stuff. If I upgrade gravityforms on websites I use it on.... I will have a nightmare time. I cut out the lines I need from forms.css and paste then into a sites main css. Upgrading wouldn't be fun since the forms.css would overwrite my site.css..... and I have tried to use 'custom css' like the plugin options mention... but it didn't work for the last site I used gf on. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/alignment-gf_left_half-and-gf_right_half-are-not-working-anymore#post-68808 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:08:25 +0000 David Peralty 68808@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Looks like you've fixed it. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/alignment-gf_left_half-and-gf_right_half-are-not-working-anymore#post-68807 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:00:36 +0000 teajayo 68807@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>yup. It's all theme custom theme css..... now I remember it took a few DAYS to get the css right for sullivans to work. I just deleted all the form css elements and its fine. so I'll have to waste more time going element by element to fix everything. damn it. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/alignment-gf_left_half-and-gf_right_half-are-not-working-anymore#post-68806 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:55:08 +0000 teajayo 68806@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p><a href="http://www.sullivanglass.com/contact-us" rel="nofollow">http://www.sullivanglass.com/contact-us</a> forgot the link to the forms using the older plugin version. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/alignment-gf_left_half-and-gf_right_half-are-not-working-anymore#post-68805 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:54:35 +0000 teajayo 68805@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>That worked to take out the BR's..... but the zipcode field is still aligned to the right... even though firebug shows that field is specified [span id="input_1_3_5_container" class="ginput_left"]</p> <p>These forms use an older version of the plugin and align fine with no cutoffs. I'll look again at the css and see. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/alignment-gf_left_half-and-gf_right_half-are-not-working-anymore#post-68795 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:32:28 +0000 Rob Harrell 68795@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Looks like something from your theme is injecting br and p tags into the address field: <a href="http://www.evernote.com/shard/s212/sh/7f4474b9-32e3-491e-bb53-9cd286b25dd4/ac274cbc19561ae0a7eb5eaea224ad42" rel="nofollow">Screenshot</a></p> <p>Your theme may include the [raw] shortcode. If it does, try wrapping the Gravity Form shortcode with the [raw]shortcode[/raw]. This is only a guess but it is something we see quite a bit. </p>