Twitter Bootstrap Text Field's Height Too Small

Twitter Bootstrap text field's height too small?

Adding <!DOCTYPE HTML> should fix this. The same question was asked here: Text input rendering issue with Twitter Bootstrap

Twitter bootstrap form fields too small

It looks like you have two problems. The input type=text problem and the radio button problem. Without seeing your code, it appears as though your textbox problem is related to DOCTYPE and your radio button problem is related to overriding CSS styles (can confirm if you post the inspector output for the radio buttons).

If your variables are showing as the correct values (eg. 18px height), which they are, then it is most definitely a DOCTYPE issue.

From this article on A List Apart:

You’ve done all the right stuff, but your site doesn’t look or work as
it should in the latest browsers.
You’ve written valid XHTML and CSS. You’ve used the W3C standard
Document Object Model (DOM) to manipulate dynamic page elements. Yet,
in browsers designed to support these very standards, your site is
failing. A faulty DOCTYPE is likely to blame.
This little article will provide you with DOCTYPEs that work, and explain the practical,
real–world effect of these seemingly abstract tags.

Here's the recommended list of DOCTYPEs as per W3C:

http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html

Decrease Twitter Bootstrap input field's height?

I couldn't find any and if there isn't how do I go about overriding the defaults?

Bootstrap's input field height is defined using attribute selectors e.g. input[type="text"], input[type="password"]

You can override it with your styles in the same selector format, or uses classes and such.

.mystyle input[type="text"] {
   height: 14px;
   font-size: 10px;
   line-height: 14px;
}

How to decrease the height of the input text field in bootstrap?

Try this:

input.form-control {
   height:25px !important;
}

Bootstrap: Email field has smaller height than text field

Try explicitly setting the font size of each field's div with the css font-size property.

Example (in your css file):

div.email_field {
    font-size: 16px;
}
div.text_field {
    font-size: 12px;
}

Text input rendering issue with Twitter Bootstrap

This behavior is also triggered when the doctype is wrongly typed. In my case, <!DOCTYPE> (wrong) was fixed to <!DOCTYPE HTML> and the problem went away.

Bootstrap text input height

You can use css height attribute both as
inline css :

<input style="height:50px"/>

or class

<input class="inputfield"/>

and the css

.inputfield {
  height: 50px
}

How do I customize twitter bootstrap's various input sizes without using !important?

Instead of using !important, you can use an attribute selector which will override the default as it will be more specific than simply using a class. Not good with specificity concept? Refer this article.

For calculating the specificity of your selectors, you can use this website.

^[1] Using class[attr=class]

.input-large[class="input-large"] {
    width: 400px;
}

^[2] Using tag[attr=class]

input[class="input-large"] {
    width: 400px;
}

And using !important is not an awful practice if you use it in the right place.

Note that above selectors, ^[1] will make all elements width to 400px having a class of input-large and in case of selector ^[2], it will set width to 400px for all input elements having class of input-large, so if you want, you can call multiple classes i.e .class.class on input tag and use the selector below..

.input-large.input-large-altered {
    width: 400px;
}

So this will select any element having both of these classes set, if you want to be more specific, and want to set only for input type="text" than you can always write even a more specific selector like

input[type="text"].input-large.input-large-altered {
   width: 400px;
}

So the above one will only target to input element whose type attribute is holding a value of text AND having both the classes i.e .input-large .input-large-altered

Demo

Demo 2

Demo 3 (Multiple classes)

Twitter Bootstrap Text Field's Height Too Small