Title: Form does not render as expected
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Form does not render as expected

 *  Resolved [llriggs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llriggs-llriggs/)
 * (@llriggs-llriggs)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-does-not-render-as-expected/)
 * Form renders perfectly on test site. When I went to set up the form in the same
   way on live site (different server), it does not render the way I’d set it up.
   The first 2 fields (first name, last name) and the next 2 fields (email address,
   website) are supposed to be on the same rows, then the Subject field is supposed
   to take up only the left half of the area (or something like 40 with 50 characters
   max) and the textarea was to be the full width of the form and 8 rows.
 * Well. Each field is on its own line, textbox takes up the full width of the form.
   I have it set to use the Formidable styles, it should be using the CSS classes
   within Formidable.
 * The theme was created by someone else, an Artisteer generated theme. I’m not 
   sure if that’s part of the problem. Any ideas?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/formidable/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/formidable/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Steve Wells](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srwells/)
 * (@srwells)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-does-not-render-as-expected/#post-3471837)
 * This sounds like a theme conflict. In other words, your theme probably has some
   styling in place for form elements that is overriding the formidable styling.
   The easiest way to figure out what’s going on is to use your browsers developer
   tools to see what CSS is being loaded/used by each element.
 * If you would like to post in our help desk with a link to your form, we can probably
   take a quick look to see what’s going on. [http://formidablepro.com/help-desk/](http://formidablepro.com/help-desk/)
 *  [rickdeet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickdeet/)
 * (@rickdeet)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-does-not-render-as-expected/#post-3471868)
 * I’m having similar trouble.
 * What I’m seeing it extra 
    tags after the field label, required *, and field 
   so the form is spread out too much vertically.
 * I removed the entire form styling section of the themes CSS file, but that had
   no effect.
 * I can’t find any 
    tag in the formidable CSS either.
 * Any suggestions?
 * Thanks,
    Rick
 *  [rickdeet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickdeet/)
 * (@rickdeet)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-does-not-render-as-expected/#post-3471869)
 * By the way, the link is [http://joyinliving.com/](http://joyinliving.com/)
 * Thanks for your help. I love both the Pro and Free versions!
 *  Plugin Author [Steve Wells](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srwells/)
 * (@srwells)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-does-not-render-as-expected/#post-3471870)
 * Your form is getting filtered twice which is causing extra 
   and <p> tags to get
   inserted into your form. for a fixSee #3 here: [http://formidablepro.com/knowledgebase/why-doesnt-my-form-look-pretty/](http://formidablepro.com/knowledgebase/why-doesnt-my-form-look-pretty/)
 * If those [raw] tags don’t resolve the problem for you, let me know and we should
   be able to resolve it with some custom CSS.
 *  [rickdeet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickdeet/)
 * (@rickdeet)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-does-not-render-as-expected/#post-3471871)
 * That worked.
 * Thank you very much for a great plugin and excellent support!

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 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-does-not-render-as-expected/#post-3471871)
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