The search box is the primary and necessary part of the site. It is user friendly and helps you to increase your website's usability. It helps readers navigate your blog more efficiently. You'll see that every blogspot blogger has a different, customized and elegant search box tool that matches their template design because it not only helps users find solve their problems more easily, but also adds a professional look to your blog.
Custom Search Boxes For Blogger Blogspot |
Just adding a search bar isn't enough, it should always be ready to help customers be reliable according to your blog topic. Blogger also provides an officially simple interface widget, but this doesn't provide a professional and elegant look to your blog, but you can use CSS to design the formal blogspot search box widget style. If the old search box isn't working properly and you want to replace it with a beautiful one then don't worry, just select one of the following and follow the step-by-step steps below. Layout design is up to you, you can also customize CSS according to your blog needs.
Benefits of Adding Custom Stylish Search Box |
- Add professional looks to your website.
- Provide basic benefits to customers.
- Save user time.
- Can be applied anywhere like in header, sidebar, footer etc.
- Stylish Active,hover and focus effects.
- Pure CSS, no image.
- Easy customization from CSS styles.
- Automatically adjust width.
<style type="text/css">
#hbz-searchbox {
background-color: #F5F5F5;
border: 1px solid #EDEDED;
padding: 5px;
border-radius: 10px;
margin: 10px auto;
min-width: 238px;
max-width: 288px;
}
#hbz-input {
background-color: #FEFEFE;
border: medium none;
font: 12px/12px "HelveticaNeue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
margin-right: 2%;
padding: 4%;
box-shadow: 2px 1px 4px #999999 inset;
border-radius: 9px;
width: 60.33%;
}
#hbz-input:focus {
outline: medium none;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 4px #0D76BE inset;
}
#hbz-submit {
background: transparent linear-gradient(to bottom, #34ADEC 0%, #2691DC 100%) repeat;
border-radius: 9px;
border: medium none;
color: #FFF;
cursor: pointer;
font: 13px/13px "HelveticaNeue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
padding: 4%;
width: 28%;
}
#hbz-submit:hover {
background: transparent linear-gradient(to bottom, #2691DC 0%, #34ADEC 100%) repeat;
}
</style>
<form id="hbz-searchbox" action="/search" method="get">
<input type="text" id="hbz-input" name="q" placeholder="Type Here..." />
<input type="hidden" name="max-results" value="8" />
<input id="hbz-submit" type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>
<style type="text/css">
#hbz-searchbox {
min-width: 250px;
margin: 10px auto;
border-radius: 3px;
overflow: hidden;
max-width: 300px;
}
#hbz-input {
width: 59.2%;
padding: 10.5px 4%;
font: bold 15px "lucida sans", "trebuchet MS", "Tahoma";
border: none;
background-color: #EEE;
}
#hbz-input:focus {
outline: none;
background-color: #FFF;
box-shadow: 0 0 2px #333333 inset;
}
#hbz-submit {
overflow: visible;
position: relative;
float: right;
border: none;
padding: 0;
cursor: pointer;
height: 40px;
width: 32.8%;
font: bold 15px/40px "lucida sans", "trebuchet MS", "Tahoma";
color: #FFF;
text-transform: uppercase;
background-color: #D83C3C;
}
#hbz-submit::before {
content: "";
position: absolute;
border-width: 8px;
border-style: solid solid solid none;
border-color: transparent #D83C3C;
top: 12px;
left: -6px;
}
#hbz-submit:focus,
#hbz-submit:active {
background-color: #C42F2F;
outline: none;
}
#hbz-submit:focus::before,
#hbz-submit:active::before {
border-color: transparent #C42F2F;
}
#hbz-submit:hover {
background-color: #E54040;
}
#hbz-submit:hover::before {
border-color: transparent #E54040;
}
</style>
<form id="hbz-searchbox" action="/search" method="get">
<input type="text" id="hbz-input" name="q" placeholder="Search..." />
<input type="hidden" name="max-results" value="8" />
<button id="hbz-submit" type="submit">Search</button>
</form>
<style type="text/css">
#hbz-searchbox {
background: transparent linear-gradient(#2C2C2C, #111);
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #000;
border-radius: 4px;
padding: 10px;
z-index: 1;
display: block;
margin: 10px auto;
min-width: 228px;
max-width: 278px;
}
#hbz-input,
.hbz-submit {
box-shadow: 0 2px #000;
font-family: 'Cabin', helvetica, arial, sans-serif !important;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
#hbz-input {
background: linear-gradient(#333, #222);
border: 1px solid #444;
color: #888;
display: block;
float: left;
font-size: 13px;
height: 30px;
padding-left: 4%;
padding-right: 4%;
width: 60.2%;
border-radius: 3px 0px 0px 3px;
}
#hbz-input:focus {
animation: glow 800ms ease-out infinite alternate;
border-color: #393;
color: #efe;
outline: none;
}
.hbz-submit {
background: linear-gradient(#333, #222);
box-sizing: content-box;
border: 1px solid #444;
border-left-color: #000;
color: #fff;
display: block;
font-size: 12px;
height: 30px;
line-height: 30px;
position: relative;
width: 30%;
cursor: pointer;
border-radius: 0px 3px 3px 0px;
}
.hbz-submit:hover,
.hbz-submit:focus {
background: linear-gradient(#393939, #292929);
}
.hbz-submit:hover,
.hbz-submit:focus {
color: #5f5;
outline: none;
}
.hbz-submit:active {
top: 1px;
}
@keyframes glow {
0% {
border-color: #393;
box-shadow: 0 2px #000, 0px 0px 5px #3DAD3D, inset 0px 0px 5px #1F391F;
}
100% {
border-color: #6f6;
box-shadow: 0 2px #000, 0px 0px 8px #6bab6b, inset 0px 0px 10px #1F391F;
</style>
<form id="hbz-searchbox" action="/search" method="get">
<input type="text" id="hbz-input" name="q" placeholder="Search..." />
<input type="hidden" name="max-results" value="8" />
<button class="hbz-submit" type="submit">Search</button>
</form>
<style type="text/css">
#hbz-searchbox {
height: 40px;
position: relative;
min-width: 250px;
max-width: 300px;
margin: 10px auto;
}
.hbz-buttonwrap {
border: none;
width: 14%;
height: 35px;
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
background: #009bff;
cursor: pointer;
border-bottom: 5px solid #0276c1;
}
.hbz-buttonwrap:hover {
border-bottom: 5px solid #bc490a;
background: #d75813;
}
.hbz-submit {
width: 35px;
height: 35px;
background: transparent;
cursor: pointer;
position: absolute;
right: 50%;
top: 50%;
margin-top: -17.5px;
margin-right: -17.5px;
border: none;
}
.hbz-submit:after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
width: 8px;
height: 8px;
border: 2px solid white;
border-radius: 50%;
left: 10px;
top: 9px;
box-sizing: content-box;
}
.hbz-submit:before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
height: 8px;
width: 2px;
background: white;
transform: rotate(-35deg);
top: 19px;
left: 21px;
}
#hbz-input {
height: 32px;
width: 82%;
position: absolute;
padding-left: 4%;
border: none;
outline: none;
right: 14%;
border-bottom: 5px solid #bbb;
border-left: 1px solid #eaeaea;
background-color: #fbfbfb;
border-top: 1px solid #eaeaea;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #e9e4e4 inset;
}
#hbz-input:focus,
#hbz-input:active {
background-color: #fff;
}
</style>
<form action="/search" id="hbz-searchbox" method="get">
<span class="hbz-buttonwrap"><button class="hbz-submit" value="" type="submit"></button></span>
<input type="text" name="q" id="hbz-input" placeholder="Type here ..." />
<input type="hidden" name="max-results" value="8" />
</form>
<style type="text/css">
#hbz-searchbox {
height: 35px;
margin: 10px auto;
position: relative;
min-width: 250px;
max-width: 300px;
}
.hbz-buttonwrap {
border: none;
width: 14%;
height: 35px;
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
background: #444;
cursor: pointer;
border-top-right-radius: 5px;
border-bottom-right-radius: 5px;
}
.hbz-buttonwrap:hover {
background: #1a1a1a;
}
.hbz-submit {
width: 35px;
height: 35px;
background: transparent;
cursor: pointer;
position: absolute;
right: 50%;
top: 50%;
margin-top: -17.5px;
margin-right: -17.5px;
border: none;
}
.hbz-submit:after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
width: 8px;
height: 8px;
border: 2px solid white;
border-radius: 50%;
left: 10px;
top: 9px;
box-sizing: content-box;
}
.hbz-submit:before {
content: '';
Steps: How To Add Stylish Search Box Widget To Blogger |
Note: Minimum sidebar width required - 250px
Step 1. Login to your Blogger account, then go to Layout > click on the 'Add a gadget' link on the left side.
Step 2. Choose HTML/JavaScript from the pop-up window > paste the code inside the empty box.
Step 3. Configuration:
- Change the value="8" for total numbers of posts per page. Eg value="12".
Note: Make sure max-results value matches with your post limit on homepage.
Step 4. Press Save.
Recommended: To display the search box in mobile view you need to enable desktop theme on mobile
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