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Hi all,

I am still a beginner, so I apologize in advance if I am wasting anyone's time. I tried to do as much research as I could to solve the issues I am having before turning here. So I will start from the beginning. I am on the drupal 6.12 and I am up-to-date on all my theme's and plug-ins. I am using the Acqua Slate theme, which is ahttp://drupal.org/node/add/project-issue/safarisearch great theme by the way, very flexible. I have attempted to use the custom search box module, it seems to have no effect on it. So in my research I found the safari search box. It had no effect on it either. So I manually put the code it the template. It works, but with a few issues. I expected it to because it is not how it was meant to be applied.
1. It seems to be different sizes in different browsers, and some of theme do not show the "x" button. (ask if you need more details for what browser does what)
2. The text inside is the same as what appears on the button "Search" I am trying to have the text inside to say something different. I have been playing around with the .module and .js files to try and get them to show me some results, I am getting close, but no success yet.

Here are some links that I found helpful:
http://ahsangill.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/drupal-6-custom-search-box/
http://agaric.com/note/how-theme-drupal-form

Can anyone tell me how to get this module working on this theme? I guess it is just not compatible with some themes.

Site in development [ Tidewater Management ]

Thanks in advance.