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header.phtml includes the code

Can anyone help explain this please?

The reason I ask is that I want to move the search box above the top navigation while keeping the breadcrumbs where they are. Moving

Do you really want to delete the search box at the top of every page?

No. I want to move it independantly of the breadcrumbs.

You should check layout xml where that “topBar” template is define . If you will see below code
<block type="core/template" name="top.search" as="topSearch" template="catalogsearch/form.mini.phtml"/>
Remove that block part which refer to “catalogsearch/form.mini.phtml” search box, and define where you want or you can go with default.

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('topSearch');?>

<block type="core/template" name="top.search" as="topSearch" template="catalogsearch/form.mini.phtml"/> You place this in xml where You want to display the search.

explanation: php echo $this->getChildHtml(’topSearch’); call for topSearch child.
as we have defined it using <block type="core/template" name="top.search" as="topSearch" template="catalogsearch/form.mini.phtml"/>
so it will consider this block code and map it with form/mini.phtml

Satish

This can be acheived by making 2 changes as follows:

First edit catalogsearch.xml by changing “top.bar” to “header”.

Them add the following to the header div within header.phtml.

I’m trying the same except I’m trying to get the search bar in the horizontal top navigation bar.

I’ve changed:

and moved:

No success. Am I missing something?