Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wiki/@comment-3032314-20130803053354/@comment-4018164-20130803063839

Fist of all, to style the search bar in the way that you wanted, add the following code to your MediaWiki:Wikia.css (it may take a couple of minutes until the styling is applied): If you don't want the magnifying glass, add as well: This uses CSS, which only affects styling of the search bar, and does not cause issues when using it.

The magnifying glass is part of a collection of images, which also contains a black version for it, and the difference is the postition of the background. If you want to use a black search bar, add this code as well to your MediaWiki:Wikia.css:

Also, if you also want to style the search form in the search results page, add this code as well: