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thank you it works on vbulletin 4.2.0.
i haven't got google adsense code but i made it from google webmaster tools. thanks.

how to manage height in google.php ?
I see large space below.

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Originally Posted by sivaganeshk (Post 2367973)

how to manage height in google.php ?
I see large space below.

This is an excellent question. I have the same problem. The page below is super long with no content. Also, I wish the Google search ads were just down the side. Not or the top and down the side.

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Originally Posted by dougdirac (Post 2368007)

This is an excellent question. I have the same problem. The page below is super long with no content. Also, I wish the Google search ads were just down the side. Not or the top and down the side.

You must use advanced search features and get the code. But with google search v1 code you cannot create a template, for v2 you cannot config for the search links to open in the same windows.

Please

Does anyone know why my box goes lower than the others?

My input.box height is 17 px when other I see is 23 px
I don?t find where I can change this (google ads or VB)

Please help.
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Installed and working fine!

Installed and working great.

One question is the fixed width, can this be changed to liquid?

Installed but ever search is showing 404 Google image error on-site...

Edit: didn't see the solution a few posts above, will try that.

Edit: Still getting the error, followed by blank space.

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400. That’s an error.

Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request. That’s all we know.

i believe it is better to go to google custom search service and make your own customized search tool and then grab the html code and place it anywhere you like on your vb...

as easy as that :)

Cheers

Recently found that the results page that is generated does not use the additional.css, so certain elements of my theme were broken.

How can I make sure the additional.css is loaded with this?

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add to the header and it should load up while page loading

I delete the events, as it negatively affects the speed of loading pages.

Удаляю этот мод, так как он отрицательно влияет на скорость загрузки страниц.

I should add that the site specified by the author mobilephonetalk contains unwanted software and locks the browser Google Chrome.

Добавлю, что сайт указанный автором mobilephonetalk содержит нежелательное ПО и блокируется браузером Google Chrome.

I would have liked to keep the VBForum search box as well as this, but when I have them both, one bumps the other into the lower navigation bar.
4.2.3
Any suggestions?

It probably has to do with editing the "globalsearch" class (width; 180px; ), but I sure can't figure out how to find it:(

Code:

<div id="navbar" class="navbar">

        <ul id="navtabs" class="navtabs floatcontainer<vb:if condition="$show['member'] AND $notifications_total"> notify</vb:if>">

                {vb:raw template_hook.navtab_start}

                {vb:raw navigation}

                {vb:raw template_hook.navtab_end}

        </ul>

        <vb:if condition="$vboptions['enablesearches']">

           <div id="globalsearch" class="globalsearch">

<!-- BEGIN GOOGLE CUSTOM SEARCH -->

<form action="http://www.teambuick.com/forums/google.php" id="cse-search-box">

    <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="partner-pub-5874277334279308:1253965069" />

    <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:9" />

    <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1" />

            <span class="textboxcontainer"><span><input type="text" value="Search Reference" name="q" class="textbox" /></span></span>

            <span class="buttoncontainer"><span><input type="image" class="searchbutton" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/search.png" name="sa" onclick="document.getElementById('navbar_search').submit;" />  </span></span>

        </form>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box&amp;lang=en"></script> 

<!-- END GOOGLE CUSTOM SEARCH -->        

        <form action="search.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=process" method="post" id="navbar_search" class="navbar_search">

                                <vb:comment><input type="hidden" name="s" value="{vb:raw session.sessionurl}" /></vb:comment>

                                <input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="{vb:raw bbuserinfo.securitytoken}" />

                                <input type="hidden" name="do" value="process" />

                                <span class="textboxcontainer"><span><input type="text" value="Search Forums" name="query" class="textbox" tabindex="99"/></span></span>

                                <span class="buttoncontainer"><span><input type="image" class="searchbutton" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/search<vb:if condition="$stylevar['textdirection'] == 'rtl'">_rtl</vb:if>.<vb:if condition="is_browser('ie') AND !is_browser('ie', 7)">gif<vb:else />png</vb:if>" name="submit" onclick="document.getElementById('navbar_search').submit;" tabindex="100"/></span></span>

                        </form>

Look in your "vbulletin-chrome.css" template for that class selector. :)

Thanks for your help! I found it and played with it, but it must not be what I need:(

In case you or someone else can point me in the right direction, I would like the two searches to line up side by side in the navbar.

I have attached an image how one search box is displacing the second one to the line below it:

What I do is place Google code in navbar (choose your position), leaving vBulletin's search completely intact. In this way I have two search engines with Google one preferred (GCS input form is 100% wide).

Alan,

That sounds like what I am trying to do. I am just having difficulty figuring out how. When I place it in the navbar, it displaces the VB search as shown in the image.

I tried placing it in the navbar_tabs template, but it displaced the last tab to the lower level.

I have seen it done on other sites, but I am not figuring it out. And I have been searching all over. All I find is the same replace default search.

Thanks

I tend to use this. It works much better.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=266520

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Originally Posted by rcull (Post 2583782)

Alan,

That sounds like what I am trying to do. I am just having difficulty figuring out how. When I place it in the navbar, it displaces the VB search as shown in the image.

Sorry, I wasn't completely clear what I did on my site.

I placed code in navbar template, so it isn't in navbar per se, but it is visible in every page. You can see it here: https://slobodni.net

This way I still have completely working vB search and Google Custom Search available everywhere. I didn't want to change or modify vB search. And also I wanted to "force" users to use GCS as much as it is possible.

Anyone intalled it on a https site?

I don't want the 'you enter in a insecure page' warning just for the search button

Google is almost completely on https. You can remove http before all links in your code, this will call https links (or, if you prefer, specify https links directly)

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Originally Posted by Alan_SP (Post 2586056)

Google is almost completely on https. You can remove http before all links in your code, this will call https links (or, if you prefer, specify https links directly)

I'll try to remove http, changing to https was not working (the search yields a blank page) Tnaks for your reply

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Originally Posted by Delfi_r (Post 2586101)

I'll try to remove http, changing to https was not working (the search yields a blank page) Tnaks for your reply

Do first what other friends say to you. If you do not have luck, read here
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=324908

I had problem after changing to https, before all was ok.
What ever I asked here I could not manage to find why it does not work for me.

So with the above thread you will see how I manage at least to make it work.
Hope it will help a bit to put you in the right path. :)

NO! I just installed this code then I have updated to https and it is not working!:(

Updating to http to https does not solve the problems. I do not want to run it as Stratis' solve fixes it. I want only the original search box in the upper right. It would be nice if this mod would be updated for https as virtually all forums will now need the update.

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