WordPress Contact Form 7 – Override CSS

This is a tricky one and should be a lot easier than it seems to be.

First you need to add a snippet of code to your functions.php file in your active theme. To disable the contact form 7 style and stop it being appended to your page and overriding your style.

function sk23_remove_contactForm7_css() {
$handle =  'contact-form-7';
wp_deregister_style( $handle );
}
add_action( 'wp_print_styles', 'sk23_remove_contactForm7_css', 100 );

A basic sample CSS to use in your style.css file

div.wpcf7 {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}

div.wpcf7-response-output {
	padding: 0.2em 1em;
}

div.wpcf7-mail-sent-ok {
	border: 2px solid #398f14;
}

div.wpcf7-mail-sent-ng {
	border: 2px solid #ff0000;
}

div.wpcf7-spam-blocked {
	border: 2px solid #ffa500;
}

div.wpcf7-validation-errors {
	background: #b6ff99;
	float: left;
	color: #30801c;
	border-radius: 5px;
	padding: 15px;
}

span.wpcf7-form-control-wrap {
	position: relative;
}

span.wpcf7-not-valid-tip {
	float:left;
	top: 20%;
	left: 20%;
	z-index: 100;
	background: #fff;
	color:#ff0000;
	font-size: 10pt;
	width: 280px;
	padding: 2px;
}

span.wpcf7-not-valid-tip-no-ajax {
	color: #f00;
	font-size: 10pt;
	display: block;
}

span.wpcf7-list-item {
	margin-left: 0.5em;
}

.wpcf7-display-none {
	display: none;
}

div.wpcf7 img.ajax-loader {
	border: none;
	vertical-align: middle;
	margin-left: 4px;
}

div.wpcf7 .watermark {
	color: #888;
}

div.wpcf7 input {
padding:5px ;border:1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 5px;
}

div.wpcf7 input[type=submit] {
padding:10px 18px ;border:1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 5px;
}

.wpcf7-submit {
	color: #fef4e9;
	border: solid 1px #da7c0c;
	background: #f78d1d;
	background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#faa51a), to(#f47a20));
	background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,  #faa51a,  #f47a20);
	filter:  progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#faa51a', endColorstr='#f47a20');
}
.wpcf7-submit:hover {
	background: #f47c20;
	background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#f88e11), to(#f06015));
	background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,  #f88e11,  #f06015);
	filter:  progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#f88e11', endColorstr='#f06015');
}
.wpcf7-submit:active {
	color: #fcd3a5;
	background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#f47a20), to(#faa51a));
	background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,  #f47a20,  #faa51a);
	filter:  progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#f47a20', endColorstr='#faa51a');
}