If you want to change the colors and layout for the searchbox you can modify the default.aspx of the site definition.
Keep in mind that changing the default.aspx of a site definition will affect all sites based on that definition.
Before changing the default.aspx I would strongly recommend that you take a backup of the file, or better yet create you own custom site definition.
See this presentation of Patrick Tisseghem delivered at Teched 2005 for creating custom site definitions.
Other MSDN content on helpfull in creating site definitions can be found here and here.
Now back to default.aspx.
The layout and colors of the searchbox are specified in the OWS.CSS file located in the %Program Files%Common FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions60TEMPLATELAYOUTS1033STYLES folder.
Classes affecting the searchbox are:
.ms-searchbox
.ms-searchform
.ms-searchcorner
Since changing the css file affects all SharePoint sites, I didn't do just that.
Instead locate the following line of code in the default.aspx file:
<Link REL="stylesheet" Type="text/css" HREF="/_layouts/1033/styles/ows.css">
Anywhre in the HEAD section below that line put the following code:
<style>
.ms-searchbox {
background-color: #FFFFF;
font-family: verdana;
font-size: 8pt;
}
.ms-searchform {
background-color: #DDDDDD;
font-family: verdana;
font-size: 8pt;
}
.ms-searchcorner {
background-color: #DDDDDD;
background-image: url("");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left top;
}
</style>
This will overwrite the OWS.CSS file.
Refresh the SharePoint site and see the changes.
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