51 lines
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51 lines
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The default searchform.tmpl looks rather bare and unintuitive with just an input field.
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The patch below adds a label for the field to improve usability:
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--- templates/searchform.tmpl.orig Fri Jun 15 15:02:34 2007
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+++ templates/searchform.tmpl Fri Jun 15 15:02:41 2007
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@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
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<form method="get" action="<TMPL_VAR SEARCHACTION>" id="searchform">
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<div>
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+<label for="phrase">Search:</label>
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<input type="text" name="phrase" value="" size="16" />
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<input type="hidden" name="enc" value="UTF-8" />
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<input type="hidden" name="do" value="hyperestraier" />
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> I don't do this by default because putting in the label feels to me make
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> the action bar too wide. YMMV. What I'd really like to do is make the
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> _content_ of the search field say "search". You see that on some other
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> sites, but so far the only way I've seen to do it is by inserting a
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> nasty lump of javascript. --[[Joey]]
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>> Please don't do that, it is a bad idea on so many levels :) See e.g.
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>> <http://universalusability.com/access_by_design/forms/auto.html> for
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>> an explanation why. --[[HenrikBrixAndersen]]
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>>> If you really want to do this, this is one way:
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--- searchform.tmpl.orig Sat Aug 25 11:54:28 2007
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+++ searchform.tmpl Sat Aug 25 11:56:19 2007
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
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<form method="get" action="<TMPL_VAR SEARCHACTION>" id="searchform">
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<div>
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-<input type="text" name="phrase" value="" size="16" />
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+<input type="text" name="phrase" value="Search" size="16" onfocus="this.value=''" />
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<input type="hidden" name="enc" value="UTF-8" />
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<input type="hidden" name="do" value="hyperestraier" />
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</div>
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> That's both nasty javascript and fails if javascript is disabled. :-)
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> What I'd really like is a proper search label that appears above the
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> input box. There is free whitespace there, except for pages with very
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> long titles. Would someone like to figure out the CSS to make that
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> happen?
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>
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> The tricky thing is that the actual html for the form needs to
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> still come after the page title, not before it. Because the first thing
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> a non-css browser should show is the page title. But the only way I know
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> to get it to appear higher up is to put it first, or to use Evil absolute
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> positioning. (CSS sucks.) --[[Joey]]
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[[!tag done wishlist]]
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