How to add a search box with icon to the navbar in Bootstrap 3?

its_me picture its_me · Sep 4, 2013 · Viewed 509.1k times · Source

I am using the new Twitter Bootstrap 3, and am trying to place a search box like this (below) in the top navbar:

Navbar Search

In Bootstrap 2, it could've ben done like this:

<form class="form-search" method="get" id="s" action="/">
    <div class="input-append">
        <input type="text" class="input-medium search-query" name="s" placeholder="Search" value="">
        <button type="submit" class="add-on"><i class="icon-search"></i></button>
    </div>
</form>

But I am not sure how to produce the same in Bootstrap 3 as so much has changed.

The default HTML for the navbar search box form in Bootstrap 3 is:

<form class="navbar-form navbar-left" role="search">
    <div class="form-group">
        <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search">
    </div>
    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
</form>

How do I modify it to achieve what I need?

Answer

Phil Nicholas picture Phil Nicholas · Sep 4, 2013

I'm running BS3 on a dev site and the following produces the effect/layout you're requesting. Of course you'll need the glyphicons set up in BS3.

<div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-static-top" role="navigation">

    <div class="navbar-header">
        <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-ex1-collapse">
        <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        </button>
        <a class="navbar-brand" rel="home" href="/" title="Aahan Krish's Blog - Homepage">ITSMEEE</a>
    </div>

    <div class="collapse navbar-collapse navbar-ex1-collapse">

        <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
            <li><a href="/topic/notes/">/notes</a></li>
            <li><a href="/topic/dev/">/dev</a></li>
            <li><a href="/topic/good-reads/">/good-reads</a></li>
            <li><a href="/topic/art/">/art</a></li>
            <li><a href="/topic/bookmarks/">/bookmarks</a></li>
            <li><a href="/all-topics/">/all</a></li>
        </ul>

        <div class="col-sm-3 col-md-3 pull-right">
        <form class="navbar-form" role="search">
        <div class="input-group">
            <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search" name="srch-term" id="srch-term">
            <div class="input-group-btn">
                <button class="btn btn-default" type="submit"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-search"></i></button>
            </div>
        </div>
        </form>
        </div>

    </div>
</div>

UPDATE: See JSFiddle