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---
title: Example
slug: Learn/Forms/Your_first_form/Example
tags:
- Beginner
- CodingScripting
- Example
- Forms
- Guide
- HTML
- Learn
- Web
---
This is the example code for the article [Your first HTML form](/en-US/docs/Learn/Forms/Your_first_form).
## A simple form
### HTML Content
```html
<form action="/my-handling-form-page" method="post">
<div>
<label for="name">Name:</label>
<input type="text" id="name" name="user_name">
</div>
<div>
<label for="mail">E-mail:</label>
<input type="email" id="mail" name="user_email">
</div>
<div>
<label for="msg">Message:</label>
<textarea id="msg" name="user_message"></textarea>
</div>
<div class="button">
<button type="submit">Send your message</button>
</div>
</form>
```
### CSS Content
```css
form {
/* Just to center the form on the page */
margin: 0 auto;
width: 400px;
/* To see the limits of the form */
padding: 1em;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
border-radius: 1em;
}
div + div {
margin-top: 1em;
}
label {
/* To make sure that all label have the same size and are properly align */
display: inline-block;
width: 90px;
text-align: right;
}
input, textarea {
/* To make sure that all text field have the same font settings
By default, textarea are set with a monospace font */
font: 1em sans-serif;
/* To give the same size to all text field */
width: 300px;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
/* To harmonize the look & feel of text field border */
border: 1px solid #999;
}
input:focus, textarea:focus {
/* To give a little highligh on active elements */
border-color: #000;
}
textarea {
/* To properly align multiline text field with their label */
vertical-align: top;
/* To give enough room to type some text */
height: 5em;
/* To allow users to resize any textarea vertically
It works only on Chrome, Firefox and Safari */
resize: vertical;
}
.button {
/* To position the buttons to the same position of the text fields */
padding-left: 90px; /* same size as the label elements */
}
button {
/* This extra margin represent the same space as the space between
the labels and their text fields */
margin-left: .5em;
}
```
### Result
{{ EmbedLiveSample('A_simple_form', '100%', '280') }}
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