Contact Form 7 CSS Skin

Contact Form 7 is a super flexible form generator that we use on nearly every site but the default styling is non existent. Here is some CSS snippets to give you a great base for customising your forms (or if you just want them to look cleaner).

Add this to your theme’s CSS file

.wpcf7 input, .wpcf7 textarea {
width: 90%;
padding: 10px;
color: #8e8e8e;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 16px;
line-height: 20px;
border: solid 1px #9f9f9f;
box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 8px #bababa;
-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease;
-moz-transition: all 0.2s ease;
-o-transition: all 0.2s ease;
transition: all 0.2s ease;
}
.wpcf7 .wpcf7-list-item {
padding-left: 0;
margin-left: 0;
margin-right: 25px;
}
.wpcf7 .wpcf7-list-item input {
border: none;
padding-left: 0;
margin-left: 0;
}
.wpcf7 select {
outline: none;
font-size: 16px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.wpcf7 input:hover, .wpcf7 input:focus, .wpcf7 input:active, .wpcf7 textarea:hover, .wpcf7 textarea:focus, .wpcf7 textarea:active {
background: #ebf7f5;
outline: none;
}
.wpcf7 input.wpcf7-submit {
-webkit-transition: 0;
-moz-transition: 0;
-o-transition: 0;
transition: 0;
border: none;
position: relative;
color: #fff;
text-shadow: 1px -2px 0px black;
text-transform: uppercase;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
font-size: 14px;
padding-top: 11px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-left: 35px;
padding-right: 35px;
/* Gradient background */
background-color: #000000;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#4d1b5c), to(#000000));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #4d1b5c, #000000);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#4d1b5c', endColorstr='#000000');
-ms-filter: "
progid: DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#4d1b5c, endColorstr=#000000)"
;
/* Drop Shadow */
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 2px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
-moz-box-shadow: 0 2px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
box-shadow: 0 2px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
}
/* On Hover */
.wpcf7 input.wpcf7-submit:hover {
cursor: pointer;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #000000;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#4d1b5c), to(#6d2f80));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #4d1b5c, #6d2f80);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#4d1b5c', endColorstr='#6d2f80');
-ms-filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#4d1b5c', endColorstr='#6d2f80');
}
/* On Click */
.wpcf7 input.wpcf7-submit:active {
top: 1px;
color: #d8c6e2;
background-color: #000000;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#4d1b5c), to(#4d1b5c));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #4d1b5c, #4d1b5c);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#4d1b5c', endColorstr='#4d1b5c');
-ms-filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#4d1b5c', endColorstr='#4d1b5c');
-webkit-box-shadow: none;
-moz-box-shadow: none;
box-shadow: none;
}
/* CF7 Messages */
.wpcf7 .wpcf7-validation-errors {
border: none;
background-color: #f4ae46;
margin: 0;
padding: 20px;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
}
.wpcf7 .wpcf7-mail-sent-ok {
border: none;
background-color: #7ad33f;
margin: 0;
padding: 20px;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
}
.wpcf7 .wpcf7-mail-sent-ng {
border: none;
background-color: #cf2d38;
margin: 0;
padding: 20px;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
color: white;
}
.wpcf7 span.wpcf7-not-valid-tip {
border: none;
background-color: #cf2d38;
padding: 10px;
padding-left: 15px;
padding-right: 15px;
border-radius: 10px;
width: 180px;
color: white;
/* Drop Shadow */
-webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
-moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
}
.wpcf7-form .fleft {
float: left;
}
.wpcf7-form .mright20 {
margin-right: 20px;
}
.wpcf7-form .mright40 {
margin-right: 40px;
}
.wpcf7-form .clear {
clear: both;
}

How about autofocus?

There isn’t an option for this as yet. But it can be done with a line of JQuery.

jQuery('.wpcf7-text:first').focus();

Loading GIF

You may also want to change the loading GIF, however as it’s embedded in the code you can’t change it with CSS.

You can create a custom loading gif at ajaxload.info or preloaders.net then add the below snippet into your functions.php file.

/* Custom AJAX Loader */
add_filter('wpcf7_ajax_loader', 'my_wpcf7_ajax_loader');
function my_wpcf7_ajax_loader () {
return get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory') . 'https://d14pjowmeoxkey.cloudfront.net/images/ajax-loader.gif';
}