Cannot make labels show next to input using bootstrap 5.1.3

December 22, 2021

<form>
  <div class="row mb-3">
    <label for="name" class="col-sm2 col-form-label col-form-label-sm">Name</label>
    <div class="col-sm-10">
      <input type="text" class="form-control form-control-sm" id="name" required>
    </div>
</form>

It seems very simple to do this but I cannot get it to work to display a label before an input element. The label is shown above the input element. Even when I directly copy the example from bootstrap.com, the label still is being displayed above the input and not next to it.

See: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/forms/layout/#horizontal-form for the example I have used

Bootstrap version 5.1.3

>Solution :

You should add class col-sm-2 instead of col-sm2

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<html lang="en">
  <head>
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    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />

    <!-- Bootstrap CSS -->
    <link
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    />

    <title>Hello, world!</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form>
      <div class="row mb-3">
        <label for="name" class="col-sm-2 col-form-label col-form-label-sm">Name</label>
        <div class="col-sm-10">
          <input type="text" class="form-control form-control-sm" id="name" required />
        </div>
      </div>
    </form>

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    ></script>

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  </body>
</html>