how do we remove the text "Search this site" from the search box

Posted by cborgia on November 23, 2007 at 7:06pm

In my search block on the home page the search box is preceded with the text "Search this site", what is the preferred way to remove that text? thanks -chris

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I switched it off via css,

Posted by NecroHill on January 24, 2008 at 2:58pm

I switched it off via css, just added 'display: none;' for label for the search block

(Thanks for the ideas)

Posted by JohnnyMoney on September 11, 2008 at 3:09pm

(Thanks for the ideas) Adding this to my main css file works for me:

#edit-search-block-form-1-wrapper label
{
display: none;
}

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Also for the theme search box

Posted by Grum on August 4, 2009 at 2:19pm

That works fine thanks.

For completeness, there is also the search box you can enable in the theme configuration, so I added this as well:

#edit-search-theme-form-1-wrapper label
{
display: none;
}

remove the text label "search this site" from the search box

Posted by dabirmoghaddam on March 3, 2008 at 10:55am

Go through these steps to remove the label from the search box:

1. Go to the "modules/search/" directory.
2. Open the file "search.module" with your preferred text editor.
3. Search for the phrase "search this site".
4. Comment the containing line out. (put "//" at the beginning of the line).
5. Save the file and refresh your browser.

You should not modify core or contributed modules

Posted by alexis on September 29, 2008 at 2:52pm

The right way to do it would be overriding the theme function:

overriding theme output.

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Thanks

Posted by JohnGu on March 14, 2009 at 3:09pm

Thanks very much. This is a good idea.

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no good idea

Posted by vronkdaut on March 17, 2009 at 10:14am

I don't think, it is a good idea to comment out lines in a core module!
That's what all the system of overrides in drupal is good for - to not to have to make changes in existing contributions, but keep the individual customization cleanly separated.
What happens to your "fix", with the next update?

Here IMHO "better" ideas how to handle this:
http://drupal.org/node/224183

this is the correct way ..

Posted by adamlee on May 11, 2011 at 7:56pm

this is the correct way .. thanks

"Correct" way to do it

Posted by aethynyc on January 7, 2011 at 10:33pm

Just follow this guide, its MUCH easier than than the other drupal guides.

It tells you exactly what to do. Basically just copy a file from your core search modules folder into ur theme folder and then copy this guys code into the template.php page

http://drupal.org/node/45295