that's actually not such a bad idea... but what about bing and yahoo etc... you can't fill the bar with all thing like add !g add !y add !b       

That + a 'parameter' button left to the search when focussed... upon hover / click, a dropdownbox appears... with just the list 'add !g for google' , ..... you get what i mean?

<style type="text/css">

#drop, #drop li ul {
       list-style-type: none;

!!! position: relative;
!!! z-index: 5;

}

#drop li ul {
       background: lightblue;
       padding-left: 0px;
       border: 1px solid red;
       width: 150px;

       !!! height: 20px;

}

#drop li ul {
       display: none;
}

#drop li:hover ul{
       display: block;
}

</style>


<ul id="drop">
<li>search parameters
<ul>
<li>add !g for google</li>
<li>add !y for yahoo!</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>


only problem with this version is that the dropdown moves all of the site down a bit to be able to show the dropdown stuff

but i'm sure it's possible to make it just appear on top of the stuff, not shifting the site

EDIT: the problem will only occur when the bar doesn't have a limmited height (height is never limited or height: auto) so if it isn't already limited, just limit the bar and problem solved, perfect solution thanks to darl181's idea

(well i think it's the perfect solution )

btw: the colors were just for testing puposes, they can be changed

EDIT2: the content mixed up with background stuff, for that, add -> position: relative; z-index:5;
to the #drop

EDIT3: you might wanna add a padding-left and top to the div, so that the text wouldn't be at the edge
but it's already 4:34 am here, i gotta get up in a little more than 2 hours, so i'm gonna sleep now xD

EDIT4 : that css should be in a css file... you know that
but testing on ipad is easiests like this + this allows easy copy-paste-  direct testing

Does IE count now as a browser?

Also, I guess cookie-based now with  a drop-down menu to search the search engine?

[...]
well do whatever you want...[...]

I would say admins call, i don't run omnimaga

I'm going to say leave it for now, I'm going to write up a better permanent solution.

lawl, well actually the best permanent solution would be: rewrite the whole search engine...

Quote from: stevon8ter on July 22, 2013, 01:44:01 pm

lawl, well actually the best permanent solution would be: rewrite the whole search engine...

or upgrade the site so we can use the decent default search engine like we've always had

true xd