Bootstrap 3: does form-horizontal work for radio buttons with a control-label?

Question

This has wasted several hours of my day. Here\'s a very simple form, with 2 radio buttons and a label, on bootply. This works as expected on 2.3.2: \'Date Range\' on the lef

Answer 1

I needed the same arrangement but with both horizontal and vertical radios. For Bootstrap 3.2, there is a form-horizontal that works nicely with columns.

<form class="form-horizontal" role="form">

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<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<div class="container">
  <p class="bg-warning">Note: In the Stack Snippet, you may need to click "Full Page", otherwise the container is narrow enough to cause Bootstrap to stack the labels over the fields.</p>
    <form class="form-horizontal" role="form">

    <div class="form-group">
        <label class="col-sm-4 control-label">Season</label>
        <div class="col-sm-8">
            <label class="radio-inline"> <input type="radio" name="season" id="seasonSummer" value="summer" checked> Summer </label>
            <label class="radio-inline"> <input type="radio" name="season" id="seasonWinter" value="winter"> Winter </label>
            <label class="radio-inline"> <input type="radio" name="season" id="seasonSpringFall" value="spring-fall" disabled> Spring-Fall </label>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="form-group">
        <label class="col-sm-4 control-label">Clouds</label>
        <div class="col-sm-8">
            <label class="radio-inline"> <input type="radio" name="clouds" id="Clear" value="clear" checked> Clear </label>
            <label class="radio-inline"> <input type="radio" name="clouds" id="Cloudy" value="cloudy"> Cloudy </label>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="form-group">
        <label class="col-sm-4 control-label">Load Forecast</label>
        <div class="col-sm-8">
            <div class="radio">
                <label> <input type="radio" name="load" id="WeekdayAverage" value="weekdayaverage" checked> Weekday - Average </label>
            </div>
            <div class="radio">
                <label> <input type="radio" name="load" id="WeekdayPeak" value="weekdaypeak"> Weekday - Peak </label>
            </div>
            <div class="radio">
                <label> <input type="radio" name="load" id="Weekend" value="weekend" disabled> Weekend </label>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

    </form>
</div>

Answer 2

To do what you want to do, you do have to use col-* classes as all form elements are 100% width, so you have to have a col-* to fix the width you want. You can use col-xs-* and it will be for all sizes, not responsive:

EXAMPLE: http://bootply.com/102912

<form class="form-horizontal">
 <fieldset>
  <div class="form-group">
   <label class="col-xs-3 control-label">Date Range</label>
   <div class="col-xs-9">
    <div class="radio">
     <label>
      <input id="inlineradio1" name="sampleinlineradio" value="option1" type="radio">
      Radio 0</label>
    </div>
    <div class="radio">
     <label>
      <input id="inlineradio1" name="sampleinlineradio" value="option1" type="radio">
      Radio 0</label>
    </div>
    <div class="radio">
     <label>
      <input id="inlineradio1" name="sampleinlineradio" value="option1" type="radio">
      Radio 0</label>
    </div>
   </div>
  </div>
 </fieldset>
</form>

If you want radios, checkboxes, or other form elements on the same line without the use of column classes, the class for the form is .form-inline:

http://bootply.com/102908

<form class="form-inline">
   <div class="form-group">
    <label class="radio-inline">Date Range</label>
         <label class="radio-inline">
     <input id="inlineradio1" name="sampleinlineradio" value="option1" type="radio">
     Radio 0</label>
    <label class="radio-inline">
     <input id="inlineradio2" name="sampleinlineradio" value="option2" type="radio">
     Radio 2</label>
    <label class="radio-inline">
     <input id="inlineradio3" name="sampleinlineradio" value="option3" type="radio">
     Radio 3</label>
    </div>
   <!--form-group-->
 </form>