Hi! I was trying to insert an icon next to the search header to try and learn how to inset items into Discourse for a start. However, this didn’t work. <script> node = document.getElementsByClassName('search-page-heading'); node.insertAdjacentElements('beforebegin', '<svg class="PixlzThemeSearchI…

Hello, You don’t need to add custom css to svg if you want to appear it before title because we put it in the h2 tags so it will use h2 styles. But you have to modify the search title section. If I am correct this screenshot you share above is from your theme DarkPixlz’s Modern Theme ? I checked th…

Hello, If I understand correctly you would like to add search icon here on search page :arrow_down_small: [Screenshot 2022-08-03 at 9.16.37] [Screenshot 2022-08-03 at 10.22.31] I think for this you need to override the Discourse template. Here is how to do it: Overriding Discourse templates but…

Alright, that almost worked! I modified the search banner, and it does this [image] Never knew it would be that cmplex, but thanks! Thought it would be a simple 3 line JS script

Yeah I think that is because your custom css. You probably have to customize this area. :slightly_smiling_face:

Sorry for the late reply but this is the CSS for it. svg.PixlzThemeSearchIcon { position: relative; display: table-row; height: 50px !important; width: 50px; top: 227px; left: 220px; fill: #e0e0e0; } Is anything wrong with it?

Thanks, that worked :slight_smile:

Making a search icon with a theme

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darkpixlz (Pyx ) August 3, 2022, 3:39pm 3

Alright, that almost worked!

I modified the search banner, and it does this

Never knew it would be that cmplex, but thanks! Thought it would be a simple 3 line JS script

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