Form inline inside a form horizontal in twitter bootstrap?

Question

Don't nest <form> tags, that will not work. Just use Bootstrap classes.

Bootstrap 3

<form class="form-horizontal" role="form">
    <div class="form-group">
      <label for="inputType" class="col-md-2 control-label">Type</label>
      <div class="col-md-3">
          <input type="text" class="form-control" id="inputType" placeholder="Type">
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="form-group">
        <span class="col-md-2 control-label">Metadata</span>
        <div class="col-md-6">
            <div class="form-group row">
                <label for="inputKey" class="col-md-1 control-label">Key</label>
                <div class="col-md-2">
                    <input type="text" class="form-control" id="inputKey" placeholder="Key">
                </div>
                <label for="inputValue" class="col-md-1 control-label">Value</label>
                <div class="col-md-2">
                    <input type="text" class="form-control" id="inputValue" placeholder="Value">
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</form>

You can achieve that behaviour in many ways, that's just an example. Test it on this bootply

Bootstrap 2

<form class="form-horizontal">
    <div class="control-group">
        <label class="control-label" for="inputType">Type</label>
        <div class="controls">
            <input type="text" id="inputType" placeholder="Type">
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="control-group">
        <span class="control-label">Metadata</span>
        <div class="controls form-inline">
            <label for="inputKey">Key</label>
            <input type="text" class="input-small" placeholder="Key" id="inputKey">
            <label for="inputValue">Value</label>
            <input type="password" class="input-small" placeholder="Value" id="inputValue">
        </div>
    </div>
</form>

Note that I'm using .form-inline to get the propper styling inside a .controls.
You can test it on this jsfiddle

For bootstrap 3 example above works but is overcomplicated, rather than using form-group use form-inline for the fields you want inline.

Eg:

<div class="form-group">
     <label>CVV</label>
     <input type="text" size="4" class="form-control" />
</div>

<div class="form-inline">
      <label>Expiration (MM/YYYY)</label><br>
      <input type="text" size="2" class="form-control" /> / <input type="text" size="4" class="form-control" />
</div>

This uses twitter bootstrap 3.x with one css class to get labels to sit on top of the inputs. Here's a fiddle link, make sure to expand results panel wide enough to see effect.

HTML:

  <div class="row myform">
     <div class="col-md-12">
        <form name="myform" role="form" novalidate>
           <div class="form-group">
              <label class="control-label" for="fullName">Address Line</label>
              <input required type="text" name="addr" id="addr" class="form-control" placeholder="Address"/>
           </div>

           <div class="form-inline">
              <div class="form-group">
                 <label>State</label>
                 <input required type="text" name="state" id="state" class="form-control" placeholder="State"/>
              </div>

              <div class="form-group">
                 <label>ZIP</label>
                 <input required type="text" name="zip" id="zip" class="form-control" placeholder="Zip"/>
              </div>
           </div>

           <div class="form-group">
              <label class="control-label" for="country">Country</label>
              <input required type="text" name="country" id="country" class="form-control" placeholder="country"/>
           </div>
        </form>
     </div>
  </div>

CSS:

.myform input.form-control {
   display: block;  /* allows labels to sit on input when inline */
   margin-bottom: 15px; /* gives padding to bottom of inline inputs */
}

Since bootstrap 4 use div class="form-row" in combination with div class="form-group col-X". X is the width you need. You will get nice inline columns. See fiddle.

<form class="form-horizontal" name="FORMNAME" method="post" action="ACTION" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <div class="form-group">
        <label class="control-label col-sm-2" for="naam">Naam:&nbsp;*</label>
        <div class="col-sm-10">
            <input type="text" require class="form-control" id="naam" name="Naam" placeholder="Uw naam" value="{--NAAM--}" >
            <div id="naamx" class="form-error form-hidden">Wat is uw naam?</div>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="form-row">

        <div class="form-group col-5">
            <label class="control-label col-sm-4" for="telefoon">Telefoon:&nbsp;*</label>
            <div class="col-sm-12">
                <input type="tel" require class="form-control" id="telefoon" name="Telefoon" placeholder="Telefoon nummer" value="{--TELEFOON--}" >
                <div id="telefoonx" class="form-error form-hidden">Wat is uw telefoonnummer?</div>
            </div>
        </div>

        <div class="form-group col-5">
            <label class="control-label col-sm-4" for="email">E-mail: </label>
            <div class="col-sm-12">
                <input type="email" require class="form-control" id="email" name="E-mail" placeholder="E-mail adres" value="{--E-MAIL--}" >
                <div id="emailx" class="form-error form-hidden">Wat is uw e-mail adres?</div>
                    </div>
                </div>

        </div>

    <div class="form-group">
        <label class="control-label col-sm-2" for="titel">Titel:&nbsp;*</label>
        <div class="col-sm-10">
            <input type="text" require class="form-control" id="titel" name="Titel" placeholder="Titel van uw vraag of aanbod" value="{--TITEL--}" >
            <div id="titelx" class="form-error form-hidden">Wat is de titel van uw vraag of aanbod?</div>
        </div>
    </div>
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