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Adding An Attribute To Search

XarcellXarcell North Carolina

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">

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  • TamaTama United Kingdom ✭✭✭
    edited August 2013

    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.

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  • hgtonighthgtonight ∞ · New Moderator

    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.

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  • XarcellXarcell North Carolina

    @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>
    
  • XarcellXarcell North Carolina

    That worked great, thanks.

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