How to Add a Apple Style Search Box to Your Blogger/Website? (CSS3)

If you ever visited Apple.com website, the you will find a beautiful search box there. We always wanted to make this type of search box available for our blogger friends. Today’s tutorial is on creating Apple-inspired search box or search field using CSS3 alone. 
The search field expands slowly when focused/clicked. This animation effect achieved purely using CSS3 transition property. This beautiful search box credit is goes to Mr.Rethnaraj Rambabu. 


Here is the code for the search-box.

<form method="get" action="/search" id="search">
  <input name="q" type="text" size="40" placeholder="Search..." />
</form>

#search {
}
#search input[type="text"] {
    background: url(search-white.png) no-repeat 10px 6px #444;
    border: 0 none;
    font: bold 12px Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif;
    color: #d7d7d7;
    width:150px;
    padding: 6px 15px 6px 35px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 20px;
    -moz-border-radius: 20px;
    border-radius: 20px;
    text-shadow: 0 2px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1), 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) inset;
    -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1), 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) inset;
    box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1), 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) inset;
    -webkit-transition: all 0.7s ease 0s;
    -moz-transition: all 0.7s ease 0s;
    -o-transition: all 0.7s ease 0s;
    transition: all 0.7s ease 0s;
    }
#search input[type="text"]:focus {
    background: url(search-dark.png) no-repeat 10px 6px #fcfcfc;
    color: #6a6f75;
    width: 200px;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1), 0 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9) inset;
    -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1), 0 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9) inset;
    box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1), 0 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9) inset;
    text-shadow: 0 2px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
    }

You can also use this style for your Google Custome Search Box. Do the following changes to your GCS Code to make it look like the Above CSS3 Search Box.......

<form  id="search" method="get" id="searchbox_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:YYYYYYYYYYY"action="URL of the Page where Result has to be Shown">

<input value="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:YYYYYYYYYYY" name="cx" type="hidden"/>

<input value="FORID:11" name="cof" type="hidden"/>

<input  id="q" name="q" size="70" type="text"  placeholder="Search..." />

</form>

This is a little differently done, see the button code has been deleted and in-place a method="get" tag has been introduced.

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