expanding the width of drop down menu

Question

how to increase the width of drop down menu... when you hover over the services link a drop down menu pop up appears.... in this pop up i have included the text fields so i need to increase the width of the drop down menu.... i tried increasing the width of sub class all form fields becomes inline but not working.... providing my code below....

http://jsfiddle.net/3VBQ6/1/embedded/result/

<ul class="sub">
    <li><a href="#nogo23"><span class='label'>Name</span>
        <span><input type="text" name="lastname" /></span></a>

    </li>
    <li><a href="#nogo24">Company <span><input type="text" name="lastname" /></span></a>

    </li>
    <li><a href="#nogo25">Email <span><input type="text" name="lastname" /></span></a>

    </li>
    <li><a href="#nogo25"><input type="submit" value="Submit" /></a>

    </li>
</ul>

Answer 1

try to change the ul and li width to auto and add a min-width:90px

like this:

#nav li:hover ul.sub {
   left:1px;
   top:38px;
   background: #bbd37e;
   padding:3px;
   border:1px solid #5c731e;
   white-space:nowrap;
   width: auto;
   min-width:90px;
   height:auto;
   z-index:300;
}
#nav li:hover ul.sub li {
   display:block;
   height:20px;
   position:relative;
   float:left;
   width: auto;
   min-width:90px;
   font-weight:normal;
}
#nav li:hover ul.sub li a {
   display:block;
   font-size:11px;
   height:18px;
   width: auto;
   min-width:90px;
   line-height:18px;
   text-indent:5px;
   color:#000;
   text-decoration:none;
   border:1px solid #bbd37e;
}

Also I added some styles for the input fields

#nav li:hover ul.sub li a input {
   font-size:11px;
   height:18px;
   width: auto;
   min-width:90px;
   line-height:18px;
   color:#000;
   text-decoration:none;
}

Answer 2

You've got hard coded widths for all the submenus which you do not need.

If you remove all the widths and the float:left; item from 'ul.sub li' which is not needed

You can target that specific menu item by adding a class to it you can adjust just that item via CSS.

#nav li:hover ul.sub.frm { width: 155px; }
.frm a .label { display: inline-block; width: 60px; }
.frm a input[type="text"] { width: 80px; }

UPDATED FIDDLE