Drive Signups with a Signup Footer Form

Driving subscriptions to your newsletter involves many calls-to-action and having a footer form on your web pages is a crucial CTA...

Driving subscriptions to your newsletter involves many calls-to-action and having a signup footer form on your web pages is crucial to driving signups. In this article, Solodev will provide you with the code you need to add a customizable signup footer form to your website.

Below is the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript required to add a subscription footer form to your website.

Step 1 - Add the HTML below above the footer of your web page

<section>
  <div class="ct-form ct-form-newsletter ct-js-form" data-h5-instanceid="0">
    <div class="container">
      <form action="" method="post">
        <div class="row">
          <div class="col-md-3">
            <span>subscribe to receive the latest news, events & updates.</span>
          </div>
          <div class="col-sm-6">
            <div class="form-group">
              <label class="sr-only" for="newsletterFooter">Enter your email address</label> <input name="newsletterEmail" id="newsletterFooter" class="form-control h5-email validate[required]" placeholder="Enter your email address" type="text" value="" >
            </div>
          </div>
          <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3">
            <button class="btn btn-transparent btn-lg" type="submit">subscribe</button>
          </div>
        </div>
      </form>
    </div>
  </div>
</section>

Step 2 - Add the CSS below to the main stylesheet of your website

.ct-form-newsletter {
  text-align: center;
  font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif;
  font-size: 2.5rem;
  line-height: 1;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: #fff;
  background-color: #157174;
  padding: 50px 0;
}
.ct-form-newsletter span {
  display: block;
  font-size: 0.820em;
  margin-bottom: 20px;
  text-align: left;
  line-height: 24px;
  margin-top: 10px;
}
.ct-form-newsletter .form-group {
  margin-bottom: 0;
}
.ct-form-newsletter input {
  height: auto;
  font-size: inherit;
  background-color: transparent;
  padding: 22px 12px 21px 30px;
  margin-bottom: 20px;
}
.form-control {
  color: #ebebeb;
  color: rgba(235, 235, 235, 0.87);
  border-radius: 0;
  border-color: #fff;
}
.ct-form-newsletter .btn {
  padding: 20px 65px;
}
.btn-transparent {
  background-color: transparent;
  border: 5px solid #fff;
}
.btn {
  font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif;
  font-size: 0.950em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  border-radius: 0;
}
.newsletter-footer {
  color: #fff  
}
.placeholder {
  background-color: #fff;  
}
input.form-control::-webkit-input-placeholder { /* Chrome/Opera/Safari */
  color: #fff;
}
input.form-control::-moz-placeholder { /* Firefox 19+ */
  color: #fff;
}
input.form-control:-ms-input-placeholder { /* IE 10+ */
  color: #fff;
}
input.form-control:-moz-placeholder { /* Firefox 18- */
  color: #fff;
}
@media only screen and (min-width: 768px){
  .ct-form-newsletter {
    text-align: left;
  }
  .ct-form-newsletter input {
    margin-bottom: 0;
  }
}
@media only screen and (min-width: 992px){
  .ct-form-newsletter span {
    margin-bottom: 0;
  }
}

Step 3 - Add the includes below to the page where your footer form lives

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans+Condensed:300" rel="stylesheet">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="signup-footer-form.css">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>