Make Your Forms Shorter With Floating Or IFTA Labels
Floating or IFTA labels can help you to create shorter, more visually appealing forms for your website, without harming the user experience.
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Floating or IFTA labels can help you to create shorter, more visually appealing forms for your website, without harming the user experience.
If you have a lead generation website, then chances are you’ve probably struggled with your forms being too long and taking up too much space, whether on desktop or mobile. A clean, short form will have a greater chance of conversion than a long and complicated one.
But how can we make a form shorter without minimising the amount of information we need for lead qualification?
Floating form labels are single-form inputs that don’t display labels above or below, but actually inside the form fields.
They are very similar but certainly not the same. The ones that disappear are actually pretext, and not so great in practice without independent labels for user experience. Users can sometimes forget what it was they were meant to input, as the instruction or label vanished as they began typing.
Floating form labels actually move from appearing inside the form field to sit overlapping slightly, whilst IFTA labels (In Field Top Aligned) appear smaller inside the same field but aligned to the top.
Ultimately they are still visible so you can still understand what you’re completing, but they don’t take up more visual space outside of the form field.
If you use forms for lead generation on your website, changing your input styles from labels displaying above or below, to either floating or IFTA labels could certainly help make your forms appear visually shorter, even if you don’t reduce the number of fields.
This small change is in no way going to achieve massive conversion lifts, but it will provide a user-friendly way of creating more visually appealing shorter forms. We have been rolling this out a lot more often on the sites we build.
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