Do you know why search icon is not showing with white background color and the dropdowns are not aligned at right?

Question

I want to have a layout that has a header and a fotoer and between header and footer there are some list items with posts. Im using bootstrap, I want the header to look like this:

But its not working, its showing like this: https://jsfiddle.net/83vnj5ru/1/.

The search icon dont have a background white color and the Filter 1 and Filter 2 dropdowns are not aligned at the right like in the image. Do you know why?

HTML:

<div class="container py-5">
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col">
      <ul class="list-group forum">
        <li class="list-group-item bg-custom-light2 py-4">
          <div class="row">
            <form class="col-5">
              <div class="form-group">
                <div class="input-group">
                  <div class="input-group-prepend">
                    <span class="input-group-text"><i class="fa fa-search"></i></span>
                  </div>
                  <input type="email" class="form-control" id="exampleInputEmail1"
                         aria-describedby="emailHelp" placeholder="Search">
                </div>
              </div>
            </form>
          </div>
          <div class="col-7 text-right">
            <div class="dropdown">
              <a class="dropdown-toggle"  id="dropdownMenuButton" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
                Filter 1
              </a>
              <div class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenuButton">
                <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">item1</a>
              </div>
            </div>
            <div class="dropdown">
              <a class="dropdown-toggle" id="dropdownMenuButton" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
              Filter 2
              </a>
              <div class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenuButton">
                <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">item1</a>
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
        </li>
        <li class="list-group-item">list item 1</li>
        <li class="list-group-item">list item 2</li>

        <li class="list-group-item bg-custom-light2 py-4">container footer</li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

CSS:

.bg-custom-light2{
  background-color: #fafafa;
}
.input-group-text, .input-group-prepend{
  background-color:none;
}
.input-group-text{
  color:gray;
}

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 22 '18 at 22:13

See if it helps you

.bg-custom-light2{
  background-color: #fafafa;
}
.input-group-text, .input-group-prepend{
  background-color:none;
}
.input-group-text{
  color:gray;
}

.filters{
  width: auto;
  display: inline-block;
}

.search-icon{
  background-color: #ffffff !important;
  border: 1px solid #ced4da !important;
  border-right: 1px solid transparent !important;
}

.search-input{
  border-left: 1px solid transparent !important;  
}

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-MCw98/SFnGE8fJT3GXwEOngsV7Zt27NXFoaoApmYm81iuXoPkFOJwJ8ERdknLPMO" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.5.0/css/all.css" integrity="sha384-B4dIYHKNBt8Bc12p+WXckhzcICo0wtJAoU8YZTY5qE0Id1GSseTk6S+L3BlXeVIU" crossorigin="anonymous">

<div class="container py-5">
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col">
      <ul class="list-group forum">
        <li class="list-group-item bg-custom-light2 py-4">
          <div class="row">
            <form class="col-5">
              <div class="form-group">
                <div class="input-group">
                  <div class="input-group-prepend">
                    <span class="input-group-text search-icon"><i class="fa fa-search"></i></span>
                  </div>
                  <input type="email" class="form-control search-input" id="exampleInputEmail1"
                         aria-describedby="emailHelp" placeholder="Search">
                </div>
              </div>
            </form>
          <div class="col-7 text-right">
            <div class="dropdown filters">
              <a class="dropdown-toggle"  id="dropdownMenuButton" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
                Filter 1
              </a>
              <div class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenuButton">
                <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">item1</a>
              </div>
            </div>
            <div class="dropdown filters">
              <a class="dropdown-toggle" id="dropdownMenuButton" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
              Filter 2
              </a>
              <div class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenuButton">
                <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">item1</a>
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
        </li>
        <li class="list-group-item">list item 1</li>
        <li class="list-group-item">list item 2</li>

        <li class="list-group-item bg-custom-light2 py-4">container footer</li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Thanks, do you know why the search form and the filters are not vertically aligned at center? For example there is more space above the search form than below the search form. — user10676579, Nov 23 '18 at 12:10
See this topic to get more information about vertical alignment of elements in a div: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79461/vertical-alignment-of-elements-in-a-div — dcalmeida, Nov 24 '18 at 09:48

Do you know why search icon is not showing with white background color and the dropdowns are not aligned at right?

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