Quote Originally Posted by stevesh View Post
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