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Add 'Below' position option to Field Label display

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Created on 19 June 2013, about 12 years ago
Updated 24 June 2025, 8 days ago

Problem/Motivation

The display options for the label of a field are currently only Above, Inline, and〈hidden〉. While designers can place the label to the left or right of a field using 'float left' or 'float right', they are not able to place the label beneath the field, given the HTML ordering of Field-Label.

Proposed resolution

Add a display option of 'Below'.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

Original report by [Mark_L6n]

In D7 and D8, the display options for the label of a field are currently only Above, Inline, and〈hidden〉.
In other words, the only choices for a displayed label position are 'above' and 'left'. This prevents developers/designers from using a position of 'right' or 'below', which should be available.
To accomplish this in the generated HTML, it appears that all that would need to be done is re-order the divs for the field label and the rest of the field.
Thus, it would be good to modify the choices to be Above, Left, Right, Below, and〈hidden〉.
(Field label position selected at admin/structure/types/manage/[content type name]/display).

✨ Feature request
Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

field system

Created by

🇺🇸United States Mark_L6n

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  • Comment 8 days ago →
    🇺🇸United States smustgrave

    Thank you for sharing your idea for improving Drupal.

    We are working to decide if this proposal meets the Criteria for evaluating proposed changes. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or there is no community support. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

    Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

    Thanks!

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