search box BG color

is there a way to change it without breaking TOS? i think you can't but i've found several sites that has BG colors other than black white or gray.

 

Yes you can, Choose the "Google Search" on button option in the search setup section.

 

oh. so you CAN change the color with search. i use SiteSearch though. that you can't change right?

 

No you can change it, give it a shot, experiment. You can even shorten the search box to shrink it to fit into small places.

 

are you sure? i know you can change the length of the sitesearch. but i thought you couldn't change the BG other than black white and gray? but can you provide a screenshot? i'm at office and i don't log in from anywhere other than home.

 

I showed you above. Look at the image I posted earlier, I highlighted the points of interest. I even changed the box to lime green so you can see.


Here is how it works (pay close attention)

When you do the "Google Search" on button option.
It takes off the logo image and puts Google on the search button, thus allowing you to change the background to whatever you please.

 

i was asking about SiteSearch, not Search. in the image you posted, the 'search type' was Google Search, not "google sitesearch". but thanks for posting it anyway.

 

Yes you can google sitesearch just click the google site search box. lol.

 

There is a way to change the background color to make it blend in better, for example if you have a gradient in the background. Since the google search box uses a table format, you can add the following to your CSS stylesheet:

table
{
background: transparent;
}

Of course, that assumes you don't need to make backgrounds to other tables visible. The nice thing about that is that it does not change the code snippet that you get from google, which would be against the Ts & Cs.

 

style it with css.