Please Help - Cannot find code

[Mitman]

Hi, i have been trying to find the code to change the damn search box input length for ages now and cannot.

The pic below shows the code, its just the 160px length needs to be changed to 140px but i cannot find where the code is, even with firebug.
As you can see the search box overlaps the side box and looks a mess

Its not in the CSS as far as i can see.

I am using a free Mistik template by the way, thanks

PS please be gentle, im no expert

[stevesh]

Unless your template designer has done something wacky, that width is calculated in includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_search.php. Find this:

if (strtolower(IMAGE_USE_CSS_BUTTONS) == 'yes') {
$content .= zen_draw_input_field('keyword', '', 'size="18" maxlength="100" style="width: ' . ($column_width-100) . 'px"') . '<br />' . zen_image_submit (BUTTON_IMAGE_SEARCH,HEADER_SEARCH_BUTTON);
$content .= '<br /><a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_ADVANCED_SEARCH) . '">' . BOX_SEARCH_ADVANCED_SEARCH . '</a>';
} else {
$content .= zen_draw_input_field('keyword', '', 'size="18" maxlength="100" style="width: ' . ($column_width-100) . 'px" value="' . HEADER_SEARCH_DEFAULT_TEXT . '" onfocus="if (this.value == \'' . HEADER_SEARCH_DEFAULT_TEXT . '\') this.value = \'\';" onblur="if (this.value == \'\') this.value = \'' . HEADER_SEARCH_DEFAULT_TEXT . '\';"') . '<br /><input type="submit" value="' . HEADER_SEARCH_BUTTON . '" style="width: 50px" />';

That width is calculated by subtracting 100px from the sidebox column width. If you make the '100' larger, the box should be smaller.

[Mitman]

Unless your template designer has done something wacky, that width is calculated in includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_search.php. Find this:

if (strtolower(IMAGE_USE_CSS_BUTTONS) == 'yes') {
$content .= zen_draw_input_field('keyword', '', 'size="18" maxlength="100" style="width: ' . ($column_width-100) . 'px"') . '<br />' . zen_image_submit (BUTTON_IMAGE_SEARCH,HEADER_SEARCH_BUTTON);
$content .= '<br /><a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_ADVANCED_SEARCH) . '">' . BOX_SEARCH_ADVANCED_SEARCH . '</a>';
} else {
$content .= zen_draw_input_field('keyword', '', 'size="18" maxlength="100" style="width: ' . ($column_width-100) . 'px" value="' . HEADER_SEARCH_DEFAULT_TEXT . '" onfocus="if (this.value == \'' . HEADER_SEARCH_DEFAULT_TEXT . '\') this.value = \'\';" onblur="if (this.value == \'\') this.value = \'' . HEADER_SEARCH_DEFAULT_TEXT . '\';"') . '<br /><input type="submit" value="' . HEADER_SEARCH_BUTTON . '" style="width: 50px" />';

That width is calculated by subtracting 100px from the sidebox column width. If you make the '100' larger, the box should be smaller.

Wow that's why I couldn't find it, didn't realise it was a subtracted figure, the setting was on 30 so I've changed it to 60 and its worked a treat, thank you very much