How are these set up? I have one for my new site layout but as i've never used a html one Im a bit unsure,

Here is the search coding:

<div class="searchform">
<form action="index.html" method="get">
<fieldset>
<input name="field" class="field" value=" Enter search word ..." />
<input type="submit" name="button" class="button" value="Search" />
</fieldset>
</form>

and in the css under search form there seems to be nothing that would control it as its all img tags etc, would this form actually work?

No, because there's nothing to handle the query string you'll generate. You'll want to build a search page (say: search.php) in a server-side language like PHP. It can then search your site based on the logic you write.

How and what is the easiest way to do a search page?

I've not used search forms before so its all new to me lol

This might be the easiest:

http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

google search page is for google searchs...

i think what he wants is a search for his website content. I am guessing you will need to store your infos inside a database and than work with a search script that search inside this database what ever information you typed inside your html form.

Look at the link he provided.


It can be used to search just your site as long as it is indexed.

it is actually impossible to have a HTML pure search form, you must have a PHP config,(handler) or a SQL database.

ill try it and see what it gives, i never saw any sites using this system, and i personally use to use google search from my sites but never knew it was for "inside" site search. can be good, anything that google provides is actually pretty good.

I think for mySQL it's like this:

$query="SELECT title, content, link FROM table_name WHERE title IS LIKE $wut_they_searched_for"

but i could be wrong.