Dropdown with a form inside with twitter-bootstrap

Question

I have a Dropdown in my TopBar, built with the Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework.

I have 3 problems with it that I can't find any solution to:

1. The text and password input fields are far too big, how can I adjust them? Making the dropdown box bigger would be OK too.
2. The labels for the fields are too dark, how can I lighten them up a bit?
3. The Dropdown is closing when I click into one of the fields. I have to reopen it and then I can type until clicking in the next field. The values are preserved even when the dropdown is closed. How can I make it stay open?

Here is a screenshot of problems 1 and 2:

Also here is the HTML for the TopBar as it is now.

<div class='topbar-wrapper'>
  <div class='topbar'>
    <div class='topbar-inner'>
      <div class='container'>
        <h3>
          <a href="/">Webworld</a>
        </h3>
        <ul class='nav'>
          <li>FILLER...</li>
        </ul>
        <ul class='nav secondary-nav'>
          <li class='dropdown' data-dropdown='dropdown'>
            <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle">Login</a>
            <div class='dropdown-menu' id='signin-dropdown'>
              <form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/sessions" method="post"><div style="margin:0;padding:0;display:inline"><input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="&#x2713;" /><input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="4L/A2ZMYkhTD3IiNDMTuB/fhPRvyCNGEsaZocUUpw40=" /></div>
                <fieldset class='textbox'>
                  <label id='js-username'>
                    <span>Username</span>
                    <input autocomplete="on" id="username" name="username" type="text" />
                  </label>
                  <label id='password'>
                    <span>Passwort</span>
                    <input id="userpassword" name="userpassword" type="password" />
                  </label>
                </fieldset>
                <fieldset class='subchk'>
                  <input name="commit" type="submit" value="Log In" />
                </fieldset>
              </form>
            </div>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

There hidden input is needed by rails and autogenerated.

I've already tried to copy the implementation of the login form that twitter uses, but when I tried that, the TopBar is about 250px in height and the content of the dropdown is open, not closeable.

I have no custom CSS or JavaScript so far, except for the top-padding of 40px in the body as suggested by the bootstrap docs.

Can someone help me with this?

Answer 1

Try adding the code below somewhere in your javascript. It should stop it from happening.

  $('.dropdown-menu').find('form').click(function (e) {
    e.stopPropagation();
  });