Search tab in Nav Bar

You COULD write a “page” with a searchform I guess, but perhaps there are more fancy ways of doing that.

Yeah I thought about that, but I wanted to have the convenience of having a search tab directly in the nav bar. Rather than clicking to a page specifically set aside for the searchform.

Anyone know how to do this?

But what do you mean with “tab” then? A “tab” (I think) goes to a (in your case) page. Isn’t your question if you can put a search form in the header?

Right, sorry, thats what I meant. I want a search form in my nav bar.

How do I do that?

That’s possible, but not easy. This is from my header.php:

<div class="search">
<?php  include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>
</div>

Which means that thre is also a searchform.php:

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">
<input type="text" size="20" name="s" id="s" value="<?php _e('Search') ?>..."  onblur="if(this.value=='') this.value='<?php _e('Search') ?>...';" onfocus="if(this.value=='<?php _e('Search') ?>...') this.value='';"/>
</form>

And of course you need to makeup, so this is from my style.css:

}

.search {
	float:right;
	padding:1.5em 5% 0 0;
}
.search form {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
}
.search input {
	display:inline;
	width:218px;
	border:1px solid #69b;
	margin:0;
	padding:0.2em 5px;
	background:#38b;
	color:#ddd;
	font-size:1.1em;
}

Just to get you going ??

thank you gangleri!!!

I will try to get it to work.

Much appreciated ??

If I wanted to put up google search instead, how would I go about doing that? setting it up in the nav bar I mean