[Companion] search text box size

[Brian]

Brian Erst wrote:

>I tried mucking around with the CSS in order to make the search box a
>little shorter (giving it more of the IE toolbar feel), but didn't have
>a lot of luck.
>
>No matter what I did inside the CSS, the search box simply would not
>budge. Not completely sure why - I looked at the CSS for Firefox and
>didn't see a lot of "!important" flags, so I should have been able to
>override the margins or height, but no such luck.
>  
>
I think you need to look at the anonymous content brought in by the 
menulist binding. The input field itself is only 13px high, so it should 
be possible to shrink the box. Just make sure you leave enough space for 
descenders in the text.

>For whatever reason, this one's a lot harder than the fix for
>horizontal orientation on buttons. I'll try to look into it a little
>further soon, but I just became a dad for the third time last week, and
>my time is a little thin right now.
>  
>

Congratulations!