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+The default searchform.tmpl looks rather bare and unintuitive with just an input field.
+
+The patch below adds a label for the field to improve usability:
+
+ --- templates/searchform.tmpl.orig Fri Jun 15 15:02:34 2007
+ +++ templates/searchform.tmpl Fri Jun 15 15:02:41 2007
+ @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+ <form method="get" action="<TMPL_VAR SEARCHACTION>" id="searchform">
+ <div>
+ +<label for="phrase">Search:</label>
+ <input type="text" name="phrase" value="" size="16" />
+ <input type="hidden" name="enc" value="UTF-8" />
+ <input type="hidden" name="do" value="hyperestraier" />
+
+> I don't do this by default because putting in the label feels to me make
+> the action bar too wide. YMMV. What I'd really like to do is make the
+> _content_ of the search field say "search". You see that on some other
+> sites, but so far the only way I've seen to do it is by inserting a
+> nasty lump of javascript. --[[Joey]]
+
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