How can I embed the search field in a custom page?

Question

I have created a new page (via Admin -> pages -> Add page) and would like to embed the search field into this page similar to how StacOverflow has done it here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/how-to-ask

Is it possible to embed the search tool into and html field using the admin -> pages UI or will I have to go through the php files and build this out?

Answer 1

Input static HTML form in your page.

<div class="qa-search">

<form method="get" action="http://url_of_your_site/search">

<input type="text" name="q" value="" class="qa-search-field"/>

<input type="submit" value="Search" class="qa-search-button"/>

</form>

</div>

Comments

Great, thanks! It's been too long since I've worked in html. I appreciate the crash-course!