Thread: Google site search box not publishing as expected in IE8

Hi,

I have a Google site search option on my site and for some reason it looks different, than in Firefox, Chrome and Opera. In IE8 the Google search button is placed below the search text box, while it appears next to it in all the other above browsers. This changes the look of my header and I would like it to publish the same in IE8. See http://www.lightthefireministries.org.za/test.php

The script used is a follows:

<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search">
<div style="border:1px solid black;padding:4px;width:20em;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr><td>
<input type="text" name="q" size="25"
maxlength="255" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Google Search" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" style="font-size:75%">
<input type="checkbox" name="sitesearch"
value="lightthefireministries.org.za" checked /> only search Light the Fire Ministries site<br />
</td></tr></table>
</div>
</form>

How do I get IE8 to be the same as Firefox, Chrome and Opera?

Try stretching the box you placed the html code in horizontally. It might be not wide enough for IE8 & might be returning on it self. (Save & then re-publish)

Originally Posted by Collectors-info

Try stretching the box you placed the html code in horizontally. It might be not wide enough for IE8 & might be returning on it self. (Save & then re-publish)

Hi Chris,

Thank you. This was the perfect solution. I changed the width in the search box html code as follows:

<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search">
<div style="border:1px solid black;padding:4px;width:21em;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr><td>
<input type="text" name="q" size="25"
maxlength="255" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Google Search" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" style="font-size:75%">
<input type="checkbox" name="sitesearch"
value="lightthefireministries.org.za" checked /> only search Light the Fire Ministries site<br />
</td></tr></table>
</div>
</form>

Re-published it and viola perfection! It now publishes the same in IE8 as the other browsers.

Thanks.

For some reason IE has a different spacing on the letters to other browsers & it adds up over a whole line. Good luck!