Beautiful Search Box Widget for Blogger

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Search Boxes are the most essential element of a blog, allowing visitors to dig and find contents. Here is a beautiful, functional and fluid adaptive width search box for blogger blogs.

Just copy the below code and add it as a HTML element. Width of the search box is fluid and it gets automatically adjusted to the sidebar width or wherever it is placed.

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<style>
#search-box {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
margin: 0;
}

#search-form 
{
height: 40px;
border: 1px solid #999;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
background-color: #fff;
overflow: hidden;
}
#search-text 
{
font-size: 14px;
color: #ddd;
border-width: 0;
background: transparent;
}

#search-box input[type="text"]
{
width: 90%;
padding: 11px 0 12px 1em;
color: #333;
outline: none;
}

#search-button {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
height: 42px;
width: 80px;
font-size: 14px;
color: #fff;
text-align: center;
line-height: 42px;
border-width: 0;
background-color: #4d90fe;
-webkit-border-radius: 0px 5px 5px 0px;
-moz-border-radius: 0px 5px 5px 0px;
border-radius: 0px 5px 5px 0px;
cursor: pointer;
}
</style>

<div id='search-box'>
<form action='/search' id='search-form' method='get' target='_top'>
<input id='search-text' name='q' placeholder='Search TechFrost' type='text'/>
<button id='search-button' type='submit'><span>Search</span></button>
</form>
</div>

Line : 4 – 100%– This is for fluid width of the search bar, to change it to fixed width, just enter appropriate pixel value example: 200px

Line:45 – #4d90fe  – Change this hex code to the change the color

Line:55 – Search TechFrost – Change this to more appropriate word for your blog

Line:56 – Search – Change this to something like “GO’ or “Submit” or anything but its better to leave it as “Search”

What’s Next

Now that you have a nice custom search bar on your blog, why not place it on a 404 page?

Visitors hate to see “404 Page not found” message, but that’s inevitable on a growing blog. Just place a search bar on these 404 pages and the visitor will eventually use it to search for something that’s actually available. A search bar on your blog’s 404 page will prevent users from leaving the site too early. Here’s a quick guide on how to place a search bar on 404 pages of a blogger blog.