Search Box Default Value

I use this snippet:

<form id="searchform" method="get" action="search.php">
<input value="Search" name="s" id="s" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Search') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Search';}" type="text">
</form>

If you want to change the text, make sure you edit it in all 3 places

this is what i have now

$form = '<form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" action="' . home_url( '/' ) . '" >
	<div><label class="screen-reader-text" for="s">' . __('Search for:') . '</label>
	<input type="text" value="' . get_search_query() .  ' " name="s" id="s" class="textbox" />
	<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="'. esc_attr__('') .'" class="searchsubmit" />
	</div>
	</form>';

I’m getting an error https://d.pr/a4nX

actually, this is what i have

<form id="searchform" method="get" action="search.php">
<input class="textbox" value="Search" name="s" id="s" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Search') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Search';}" type="text">
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="" class="searchsubmit" />
</form>

but it doesn’t seem to work

https://pastebin.com/jDDXbg2U doesnt work, and the sidebar doesnt load

<form id="searchform" method="get" action="search.php">
<input class="textbox" value="Search" name="s" id="s" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Search') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Search';}" type="text">
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="" class="searchsubmit" />
</form>

On its own that should work (though the ‘Go’ button will have no text).

If you’re still using the whole $form = … thing, then you’ll need to escape out all the apostrophes between $form = ' and the closing '; by putting a \ immediately before each one.

Nice one gwynf, this is working a treat.