How to decrease input height with floating labels in React-Bootstrap?

Last Updated : 24 Apr, 2025

React-Bootstrap is a front-end framework that was designed keeping React in mind. Let's learn a little bit about floating labels. Floating labels are the form labels that float over the input fields. For creating floating labels, we wrap <Form.Control> element inside <FloatingLabel>.

In this article, we are going to see different ways through which we can decrease the input height of form elements with floating labels in React-Bootstrap. Below are some approaches to do it.

Table of Content

Using "size" prop
Using custom CSS

Steps to create React Application and Installing Module:

Step 1: Create a React application using the following command:

npx create-react-app foldername

Step 2: After creating your project folder i.e. foldername, move to it using the following command:

cd foldername

Step 3: After creating the ReactJS application, Install the required module using the following command:

npm install react-bootstrap 
npm install bootstrap

Project Structure:

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Approach 1: Using "size" prop

In this approach, we will use the "size" prop of the <Form. Control>. We can pass two different values:

"sm": When the size prop has sm as a value, it decreases the size of the input fields.
"lg": When the size prop has lg as a value, it increases the size of the input fields.

Example: In this example, we will decrease input height using a size prop. We have used size prop in the email field only to see the difference between the input height of textarea and input.

JavaScript

import FloatingLabel from "react-bootstrap/FloatingLabel";
import { Container, Form } from "react-bootstrap";
function App() {
    return (
        <>
            <Container className=" m-3">
                <h2 style={{ color: "green" }}>
                    Decreasing input height with floating label
                </h2>
                <FloatingLabel controlId="floatingInput" 
                               label="Email address">
                    <Form.Control
                        type="email"
                        placeholder="[email protected]"
                        className="mb-3"
                        size="sm"
                    />
                </FloatingLabel>
                <FloatingLabel controlId="floatingTextarea2" label="Comments">
                    <Form.Control
                        as="textarea"
                        placeholder="Leave a comment here"
                        style={{ height: "100px" }}
                    />
                </FloatingLabel>
            </Container>
        </>
    );
}

export default App;

Output:

Approach 2: Using custom CSS

In this approach, we will decrease input height by using traditional CSS classes. Below is the examples for the same.

Example: In this example, we have given className namely "smaller-input" to textarea. Add this code to App.js and index.css file respectively.

JavaScript

import FloatingLabel from 'react-bootstrap/FloatingLabel';
import { Container, Form } from "react-bootstrap";
import './index.css';
function App() {
  return (
    <>
     <Container className=" m-3">
    <h2 style={{color:"green"}}>Decreasing input height with floating label</h2>
   
      <FloatingLabel
        controlId="floatingInput"
        label="Email address"
      >
        <Form.Control type="email" placeholder="[email protected]" className=' mb-3' />
      </FloatingLabel>
      <FloatingLabel controlId="floatingTextarea2" label="Comments" >
        <Form.Control  as="textarea"
          placeholder="Leave a comment here"
          className='smaller-input '
          style={{ height: '100px' }}
           />
      </FloatingLabel>
      </Container>
    </>
  );
}

export default App;

CSS

.smaller-input {
  font-size: 12px;
  padding: 2px 5px;
}

Output:

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How to decrease input height with floating labels in React-Bootstrap?

Steps to create React Application and Installing Module:

Approach 1: Using "size" prop

Approach 2: Using custom CSS

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