CSS spacing is off, not sure what's causing

Question

I'm working on a form and need to include a note above the reCAPTCHA field. I've got everything in place, but the spacing between the *To submit your message, please type the words shown below: note and reCAPTCHA is way off, I need to figure out how to bring the two elements closer together vertically.

I'm using a paragraph tag in the form for the note, I'm not sure if that's bad form??

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CSS:

/*Prayer Request Form*/

#prayer-form {  
    margin-bottom: 20px;
    width: 960px;
    height: 520px;
    padding: 40px 30px;
    margin-left: auto; 
    margin-right: auto;


}


form, fieldset, input, textarea {
    margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; outline: none;
}


label {
    float: left; clear: left; margin: 11px 20px 0 0; width: 65px;
    text-align: left; font-size: 14px; color: #000000; 

}


input {
    width: 370px; height: 20px; padding: 5px 10px 5px 10px; margin: 0 0 23px 0; 
    background: #EDEDED;
    border: 1px solid #808080;  
    font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #000000;
}



textarea {
    width: 650px; height: 120px; padding: 10px 10px 5px 10px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; 
    background: #EDEDED;
    border: 1px solid #808080;
    overflow: auto; 
    font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #000000;
}


input[type=submit] {
    width: 95px; height: 30px; float: left; clear: left; padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px; margin: 20px 0 0 85px;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    border: 1px solid #0000CD;
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #00BFFF 0%, #0000CD 100%); /* firefox */
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#00BFFF), color-stop(100%,#0000FF)); /* webkit */
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(GradientType=0,startColorstr='#00BFFF', endColorstr='#0000CD');
    cursor: pointer;
}

input[type=reset] {
    width: 95px; height: 30px; float: left; padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px; margin: 20px 0 0 20px;
    border: 1px solid #858585;
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #EDEDED 0%, #999999 100%); /* firefox */
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#EDEDED), color-stop(100%,#999999)); /* webkit */
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(GradientType=0,startColorstr='#EDEDED', endColorstr='#999999');
    cursor: pointer;
}


p captcha{
float: left; padding: 2px 0 0 85px;
font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #000000;

}

#captcha {
    float: left; margin: 11px 0 20px 0; width: 445px; height: 110px; padding: 2px 5px 2px 85px;


}

HTML:

<!--/ Show Prayer Request Form-->

<div id="prayer-form">


<form name="prayer-form" action="send-mail.php" method="POST">

<label for="field_name">Name:</label> <input type="text" id="field_name" name="sender_name" placeholder="First Name, Last Name"> 
<br>
<label for="field_email">Email:</label> <input type="text" id="field_email" name="sender_email" placeholder="example@domain.com">
<br>
<label for="field_phone">Phone:</label> <input type="text" id="field_phone" name="sender_phone" placeholder="(444) 444-4444">
<br>
<label for="field_message">Prayer Request:</label>

<textarea id="field_message" name="sender_message" placeholder="How can we pray for you?"></textarea>

<p id="captcha"><b>*To submit your message, please type the words shown below:</b></p>

<div id="captcha">
    <?php
          require_once('recaptchalib.php');
          $publickey = "*****************AzBk";
          echo recaptcha_get_html($publickey);
        ?>
</div>


<input type="submit" name="send_message" value="Submit"> <input type="reset" value="Reset">

</form>

</div>

Your help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

Simple, change this css code:

#captcha {
    float: left;
    height: 110px;
    margin: 11px 0 20px;
    padding: 2px 5px 2px 85px;
    width: 445px;
}

to

#captcha {
   float: left;
   /*height: 110px;
   margin: 11px 0 20px;*/
   padding: 2px 5px 2px 85px;
   width: 445px;
}

Answer 2

I think that you have set your with the same id as the actual captcha form you must change the id on the

tag, plus it is not good to have 2 ID's.

change to this -

<p id="captcha-notice"><b>*To submit your message, please type the words shown below:</b></p>

<div id="captcha">
    <?php
          require_once('recaptchalib.php');
          $publickey = "*****************AzBk";
          echo recaptcha_get_html($publickey);
        ?>
</div>

then add your styles

#captcha-notice{
    /* styles */
}

Answer 3

You need to adjust the following rule in your style sheet:

#captcha {
    float: left; 
    margin: 11px 0 20px 0; 
    width: 445px; 
    height: 110px; 
    padding: 2px 5px 2px 85px;
}

You don't need to specify the height, just use height: auto or omit it all together.

You can also omit the padding, using margin alone will give you enough control. Finally, you may not need to float the paragraph.

Answer 4

It looks like it's the height setting in your captcha CSS:

#captcha {
    float: left;
    margin: 11px 0 20px 0;
    width: 445px;
    height: 110px;
    padding: 2px 5px 2px 85px;
}

When I disable the height setting of 110px, the spacing is more reasonable.