Search Page styling

[mdawaffe]

THe search page needs some love.

[fel64]

I am proposing some love: attached are screenshots of the default search form in kakumei ('simplesearchform.gif') and of a more advanced search form ('normalsearchform.gif'). Also patch files for bb-includes/classes.php, rearranging some of the things so the styling works correctly and changing the HTML. Perhaps this can be moved into a template file for much less awkwardness? And a patch for bb-templates/kakumei/style.css, with some search page styling.

I'd accept the ticket if that was appropriate ... ? Not sure of the trac-etiquette.

[fel64]

Didn't realise that changes to form() also affect the admin page. The admin CSS needs the same modifications as the kakumei CSS.

[fel64]

Any chance of some feedback on this?

[sambauers]

There is no indication of whether the form elements work in an "AND" or an "OR" mode. i.e. does it search for the tag "woot" by the author "fel64" or does it search for the tag "woot" or the author "fel64"...?

[fel64]

Replying to sambauers:

There is no indication of whether the form elements work in an "AND" or an "OR" mode. i.e. does it search for the tag "woot" by the author "fel64" or does it search for the tag "woot" or the author "fel64"...?

What does it actually do? I'd hope it defaults to AND searching, because OR searching (I find) is very annoying and very rarely helpful. I'd leave that out, but if you think it's important I could always add a little message at the bottom or somesuch ... ?

I've also realised in the meantime that it's pretty easy to make this design work without rearranging the order of the HTML, which makes for significantly nicer markup in my opinion. I'll do that if this will be used.

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Milestone 1.0-beta deleted

[sambauers]

This needs to be re-worked for current trunk.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Moving to 1.1 milestone as part of trac triage.