Adding An Attribute To Search

Xarcell

I'm going through the template code and cannot find HTML where I can add the "placeholder" attribute to the forum search. I want to change this:

<input type="text" id="Form_Search" name="Search" value="" class="InputBox">

to this:

<input type="text" id="Form_Search" name="Search" value="" placeholder="Search Forum!" class="InputBox">

hgtonight

Replace this line $Form->TextBox('Search'), with $Form->TextBox('Search', array('placeholder' => 'Your new text')),

Tama

Quick tip, visit https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/find/master and enter the term "search". Upon finding the the correct file from views, in this case applications/dashboard/views/search/index.php and `` I would copy it to mytheme/views/search and make the changes needed.
Oops applies to a different page, but looks like you can use Smarty tags.

hgtonight

What version of Vanilla are you running?

Are you referring to the default theme, or something else?

Assuming you are using a theme with a default.master.tpl file that uses the smarty tag {searchbox} you can add $Definition['Search'] = 'My other placeholder text'; to your /conf/locale.php file.

Xarcell

@hgtonight said:
What version of Vanilla are you running?

Are you referring to the default theme, or something else?

Assuming you are using a theme with a default.master.tpl file that uses the smarty tag {searchbox} you can add $Definition['Search'] = 'My other placeholder text'; to your /conf/locale.php file.

I'm using a custom theme I made, and vanilla 2.0.18.8. I see no tpl files. I see the default.master.php file though. I also see this within it:

            <div class="Search">
              <?php
                  $Form = Gdn::Factory('Form');
                  $Form->InputPrefix = '';
                  echo 
                      $Form->Open(array('action' => Url('/search'), 'method' => 'get')),
                      $Form->TextBox('Search'),
                      $Form->Button('Go', array('Name' => '')),
                      $Form->Close();
              ?>
                  <div style='clear:both;'/>
             </div>

hgtonight

Replace this line $Form->TextBox('Search'), with $Form->TextBox('Search', array('placeholder' => 'Your new text')),

Xarcell

That worked great, thanks.