Search Box/Bar

Briar2345 · Post by **Briar2345** » December 27th, 2017, 7:25 am

Good Afternoon,

Clear the (separate) search box or at least stop it from selecting whatever is in there ?

Now that the useful addon Clear Inputs no longer works ...

I managed to stop the URL bar from becoming selected, but still have to find a way to clear it and do the same for the search bar.

Regards

Briar

Reflective · Post by **Reflective** » December 27th, 2017, 9:04 am

Try this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... clearurls/

Frank Lion · Post by **Frank Lion** » December 27th, 2017, 9:20 am

For the searchbar, I just do Ctrl + K and start typing the new search term and it overwrites anything already there. To clear it, you could do Ctrl + K, then Delete.

Btw addressbar (urlbar) is Ctrl + L

nohamelin · Post by **nohamelin** » February 5th, 2018, 3:06 pm

I have a button to clean the respective textbox in the searchbar and the findbar added by a private add-on. As it's implemented via CSS+XBL, it can be added via userChrome.css in Fx57 and later. So:

1) In your userChrome.css goes the next lines:

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.searchbar-textbox > .search-go-container {
    -moz-binding: url('general.xbl#clear-searchbar');
}
.findbar-textbox > .textbox-input-box {
    -moz-binding: url('general.xbl#clear-findbar');
}
#clear-searchbar-button {
    padding: 3px 2px 3px 0;
}

The padding values need be ajusted to make the icon to look good.

2) And the next code need be pasted in a new text file called general.xbl and placed in the same folder next to userChrome.css:

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<?xml version="1.0"  encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<bindings xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/xbl"
          xmlns:xbl="http://www.mozilla.org/xbl"
          xmlns:xul="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul">

    <binding id="clear" extends="xul:hbox">
        <resources>
            <stylesheet src="chrome://global/skin/textbox.css"/>
        </resources>

        <implementation>
            <property name="textbox">
                <getter><![CDATA[
                    var node = this;
                    while (node.localName != "textbox") node = node.parentNode;
                    return node;
                    ]]>
                </getter>
            </property>

            <method name="reset">
                <body><![CDATA[
                    this.textbox.reset();
                    this.textbox.focus();
                    ]]>
                </body>
            </method>
        </implementation>
    </binding>

    <binding id="clear-searchbar" extends="#clear">
        <content>
            <xul:image id="clear-searchbar-button"
                       class="lsak-clear-button textbox-search-clear"
                       tooltiptext="Clear Field"
                       onclick="document.getBindingParent(this).reset();"/>
            <children/>
        </content>
    </binding>

    <binding id="clear-findbar" extends="#clear">
        <content>
            <children/>
            <xul:image id="clear-findbar-button"
                       class="lsak-clear-button textbox-search-clear"
                       tooltiptext="Clear Field"
                       onclick="document.getBindingParent(this).clear();"/>
        </content>

        <implementation>
            <method name="clear">
                <body><![CDATA[
                    this.reset();
                    this.textbox.findbar._find(this.value);
                    ]]>
                </body>
            </method>
        </implementation>
    </binding>
</bindings>

I haven't updated the XBL code since... Fx 30~40?, but it seems to work in current Nightly, mostly: there is some minor quirks with the searchbar. I don't have the time now to fix it, but I will give to it a revision when I myself move to ESR 60. Maybe I can restore the button in the address bar too.

Also be aware that it will not work anymore around Firefox 61(?), as the XBL technology is being removed from Firefox.

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