Place button inside input

Question

I need to place a button, with an icon, an input so I tried the HTML:

(JSFiddle Example: https://jsfiddle.net/mdmoura/zup3b24e/12/ ):

<form>       
  <div class="wrapper">
    <input type="text">
    <button type="submit">
      <i class="fa fa-search"></i>
    </button>
  </div>
</form>

With the following CSS:

form {
  width: 400px;
}

.wrapper {
  position: relative;
}

input {
  font-size: 18px;
  padding: 10px;
  width: 100%;
}

button {
  background-color: white;
  border: none;
  font-size: 24px;
  position: absolute;
  right: 0;
}

But this does not place the button inside the input.

How can this be done?

Answer 1

All you need to do is to add bottom: 8px; to the button so it is moved up by 8px , visually into the input box.

button {
  background-color: white;
  border: none;
  font-size: 24px;
  position: absolute;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 8px;
}

 form { width: 400px; } .wrapper { position: relative; } input { font-size: 18px; padding: 10px; width: 100%; } button { background-color: white; border: none; font-size: 24px; position: absolute; right: 0; bottom: 8px; } 

 <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/> <form> <div class="wrapper"> <input type="text"> <button type="submit"> <i class="fa fa-search"></i> </button> </div> </form> 

Updated JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/zup3b24e/14/

Answer 2

A simpler way to build an input form with font awesome inside if you want to go with this direction

 input[type="text"] { width: 400px; height: 20px; padding: 10px; } input[type="submit"] { font-family: FontAwesome; font-size: 24px; margin-left: -50px; background-color: white; border: none; -webkit-appearance: none; } 

 <link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/> <input type="text"><input type="submit" value="&#xf002;">