Question about the new AdSense for Search

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Question about the new AdSense for Search

Can I change the colors?

mayest

6:03 pm on Jun 26, 2008 (gmt 0)

I finally decided to set up the new AdSense for Search code yesterday. Unfortunately, I can't use the code because there seems to be no flexibility regarding colors. As far as I can tell, I get three choices for the background surrounding the search box: white, gray, and black. It is horrifically ugly on my site.

Looking at the code, I can clearly see that they have hard-coded the colors with inline CSS. Am I allowed to change the code to the colors that I want? I know better than to mess with the code for normal AdSense ads, but is the search box code different?

macavity

6:27 pm on Jun 26, 2008 (gmt 0)

You can change it. I asked them yesterday.

mayest

5:01 am on Jun 27, 2008 (gmt 0)

Thanks, that's good to know. Is there anything officially written down anywhere?

BeeDeeDubbleU

9:23 am on Jun 28, 2008 (gmt 0)

See [google.com...]

mayest

7:25 pm on Jun 28, 2008 (gmt 0)

Thanks for that link, but that's exactly where I've been looking. The only custom colors that I can see are for the results page.

I did figure out a way around the problem. If you choose the very first option (the one with Google Custom Search inside the search box) then you get a transparent background. That works perfectly. For me, that is better than setting up custom colors.