How to style this registration form?

I basically just took your existing, working form, and modified it to output markup which was closer to the new form. In general, when you are not very familiar with a particular piece of code and how it works, you should change as little as possible to get the desired result.

I assumed that the CSS for your form used the type values on the form's inputs, because most of them are not standard types. I would really recommend changing them to standard types ( http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.html#input ) and updating the CSS and markup to use classes instead. However, you may have other code (e.g. JavaScript) which is also dependent on these types, so tread carefully.

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