TwentyTen Theme – Modifying the Horizontal Alignment of a Form

Correction, not “pictured”, but rather as displayed at the link above.

i would think, and i may well be wrong/stupid, that as its in a widget, its alignment is set in the widgets part of the stylesheet – maybe creating a div tag for the form, and corresponding style elements would cure it?

(like the feel of your site btw)

Don’t edit the Twenty Ten theme! Your changes will be over-written the next time you upgrade WordPress or the theme. For this reason, it is recommended that you consider creating a child theme for your customisations.

The form that you’re using actually creates a table to structure the form elements, which is generally regarded as bad design (but for the moment that is beside the point). The table has an inline style setting the width at 260px. This is wider than the actual widget that contains it, which is set to 199px. That is why it does not seem to be aligned.

If you’re using a plugin to create the form, I would recommend searching for a different plugin that is more up-to-date in how it is actually implemented, as this will probably help out in making it fit into the allotted space.

Thanks, folks. Fwiw, I am using a child theme, but only have a few modifications from the original Twenty Ten theme. So I’m safe there!

The form was provided by the third party vendor (email service provider) and using their automatic script, their development/support team let me know that changes could not be made to the size, etc., so I switched to their manual form and was able modify the sign-up form with my alignment preferences.

Thanks for the compliment, mayclem72!