Hi all,

I am still a beginner, so I apologize in advance if I am wasting anyone's time. I tried to do as much research as I could to solve the issues I am having before turning here. So I will start from the beginning. I am on the drupal 6.12 and I am up-to-date on all my theme's and plug-ins. I am using the Acqua Slate theme, which is ahttp://drupal.org/node/add/project-issue/safarisearch great theme by the way, very flexible. I have attempted to use the custom search box module, it seems to have no effect on it. So in my research I found the safari search box. It had no effect on it either. So I manually put the code it the template. It works, but with a few issues. I expected it to because it is not how it was meant to be applied.
1. It seems to be different sizes in different browsers, and some of theme do not show the "x" button. (ask if you need more details for what browser does what)
2. The text inside is the same as what appears on the button "Search" I am trying to have the text inside to say something different. I have been playing around with the .module and .js files to try and get them to show me some results, I am getting close, but no success yet.

Here are some links that I found helpful:
http://ahsangill.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/drupal-6-custom-search-box/
http://agaric.com/note/how-theme-drupal-form

Can anyone tell me how to get this module working on this theme? I guess it is just not compatible with some themes.

Site in development [ Tidewater Management ]

Thanks in advance.

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babbage CreditAttribution: babbage commented

I have also found cross-browser differences: the box renders wider than it should in Firefox on both Mac OS X and Windows... it appears to be to do with the way the background images are attached but I haven't figured out a solution yet. Is this what you're also seeing?

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babbage CreditAttribution: babbage commented
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eagereyes CreditAttribution: eagereyes commented

My problem isn't so much the width difference, but the fact that it moves down quite a bit in FireFox. That makes my sidebar look really ugly - any chance to fix this?

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babbage CreditAttribution: babbage commented

eagereyes: I don't see this in Firefox. Try turning off Safari Search and see if you still see the layout differences between Firefox and other browsers—might be to do with other unrelated CSS/markup.

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onepartscissors CreditAttribution: onepartscissors commented
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I find this error as well - the safari search moves the search box up, but not the accompanying button. i can actually see the search box arrive on the page in the right place, and then when the JS loads for Safari Search, it pushes it up.

That said, though, the latest version of FF i see loads of issues, i honestly think they have a bug in the way FF now displays the box model or something.... maybe they're hiring out of Redmond these days....? :-)

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eagereyes CreditAttribution: eagereyes commented

I have a new theme now, and I still see this. With the new layout, it's much less of an issue, though. It would be best if there was an option, "do nothing in other browsers," so they display their standard search box.