Forum:Moving search bar

I'd like to move customize the skin in use on my wiki, Our Brant. I like Wikipedia's accessibility findings, which have found that users find it easiest to locate the search bar at the upper right side of the screen in the editing toolbar. I'd like to do the same on my wiki. How can I customize the skin that way? Mistydemeo 19:23, June 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * I suspect you'd have to use w:c:ourbrant:Special:Contact to make a search box appear on all pages in the upper-right. You can an extra one manually, see Help:Searching and use CSS  to make it always appear int he same place on the upper right. You can hide the current left sidebar search with the following CSS in MediaWiki:Monaco.css:

 display: none; }
 * 1) search_box {
 * I hope that helps. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 8:52 AM PST 1 Jul 2010
 * Thanks, Fandyllic. I'll contact them at Special:Contact to see if they can help me out; if not, I'll try adding it to pages manually, but that would be less convenient. Misty De Meo 17:29, July 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Wikia staff directed me back here; they said they had no way to help me. I'm looking at what you were suggesting again, but I'm having a bit of trouble. I created a template for a search bar that should be placed in the upper right; I gave it the CSS class "searchtemplate", then added a CSS class for that in Monaco.css with the CSS you gave me, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything. I also tried placing the CSS style directly into the inputbox tag, but that didn't seem to work either. What am I doing wrong? The template is at w:c:ourbrant:template:Searchtemplate. Thanks! Misty De Meo 14:37, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * When I get more time I'll take a look. It isn't that Wikia can't help you, they just choose not to. It is similar to how they mucked up the Answers skin and pretended like it wasn't their fault. I will say they what you're asking for is pretty radical and they would probably resist helping you in order to maintain consistency and not have a bunch of one-off Wikia floating around. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 10:48 AM PST 5 Jul 2010