How to: Add A Search Box To Blogger
You can add a search box on your blogger templates, to give your readers a chance to search your blog. The advantage by adding this search box is that the result is showed in the main body of your blog unlike the search box in the top navigation bar.
Now under Template go to Page Elements tab, click “Add a Gadget” at the place where you want your search box to appear.
Select “HTML/JavaScript”.
Add the code below and click Save.
Note: This code only works on blogger platform.
Your search box example:-
Blogger Search Box Code
1 2 3 4 5 | <form id="searchthis" action="YOUR BLOG URL/search" style="display:inline;" method="get"> <strong>YOUR SEARCH BOX TITLE<br/></strong> <input id="b-query" maxlength="255" name="q" size="20" type="text"/> <input id="b-searchbtn" value="Search" type="submit"/> </form> |
What you need to edit:-
Change the value YOUR BLOG URL to your blog URL.
1 | <form id="searchthis" action="YOUR BLOG URL/search" style="display:inline;" method="get"> |
Example:-
1 | <form id="searchthis" action="http://www.djyano.blogspot.com/search" style="display:inline;" method="get"> |
Change the value YOUR SEARCH BOX TITLE
1 | <strong>NAME OF YOUR BLOG<br/></strong> |
Example:-
1 | <strong>My Search Box<br/></strong> |
Your final search box will look like this:-
You can also edit the search button. Replace “Search” to “Hit” or “Go“.
1 | <input id="b-searchbtn" value="Search" type="submit"/> |
Example:-
1 | <input id="b-searchbtn" value="Hit" type="submit"/> |
Your Search box button will look like this:-
You can also edit the search bar width. Replace the value“size=”20″”.
1 | <input id="b-query" maxlength="255" name="q" size="20" type="text"/> |
Example:-
1 | <input id="b-query" maxlength="255" name="q" size="40" type="text"/> |
Your Search box width will look like this:-
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