Header search bar

Technical Q&A
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Topic summary

A Shopify store owner using the Dawn theme wants to replace the header’s search icon with a fully visible, customizable search bar in the center of the header. They’ve struggled for days with code editing, including unsuccessful attempts using ChatGPT.

Technical Discussion:

  • Two developers offered assistance, explaining that the search functionality involves the header-search file and predictive search sections
  • A basic HTML search form was provided as a starting point, but lacks the theme’s predictive search feature
  • The main challenge: extracting the search bar from its modal popup (triggered by clicking the icon) and rendering it directly in the header

Key Technical Points:

  • Implementing this requires editing multiple files and CSS knowledge
  • The predictive search functionality needs the complete code from Dawn’s predictive search liquid file
  • Customization requires understanding how the header-search file, modal code, and CSS styling interconnect

Resolution:

  • The store owner acknowledged limited coding experience (only following tutorials)
  • One developer (suyash1) offered to implement the changes directly via collaborator access
  • Collaborator code was shared (5360), request sent, and the conversation moved to direct messages
Summarized with AI on October 23. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
1

Im really struggling with costumizing my header on my shopify dawn theme, i want to have a serach bar instead of the search icon in the center of my header and i also want to be able to fully costumize it. ive been trying for days and cant figure it out at all

2

Hi @Pokewars ,

Yes its possible. If you’d like me to handle it, please share the collaborator code so I can edit the theme accordingly.

Thank you

3

@Pokewars - you can put search bar section to render at middle of header instead of icon, if you are not familiar with the coding then I can do it for you

4

here is my code 6465
thank you

5

i tried using chat gpt for help with the code editing but it doesnt really work most of the time. ive been trying to figure out what specifically i have to render in my header for the search bar and also where im supposed to edit the code to costumize the design of the search bar

6

@Pokewars
please go to your header file and check if you have a section predictive search, you can move this line of cod at the place you want

7

i think this is the part that renders the search icon with the search bar and predictive search inside it but
so do i have to edit whatever happens inside header-search or how does it work
{% render ‘header-search’, input_id: ‘Search-In-Modal’ %}

8

@Pokewars this is the very simple search code, add this at the place you want and check,

<form action="{{ routes.search_url }}">
  <input type="text"
    placeholder="Search"
    name="q"
    value="{{ search.terms | escape }}"
  />
  <input type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>
9

cool that gave me a very simple one yes, how do i make it look how i want and also make the predictive search function work? ive been mainly using chat gpt to syle things thats pretty much the only thing i trust it to do.

10

@Pokewars if you want predictive then you will need to use the one given by theme, it will need all the code from that predictive search liquid file.. for the look you will need to use css

11

ok but if i need that code is there a way to make it so the search bar that comes with dawn is directly rendered in there instead of all the having to click the icon then the search bar pops up? do i need to remove that part from the header-search file? or can i just render the search bar without changing header-search. im really struggling to understand how this all connects together.

12

it is possible, it will need multiple code editing, are you familiar with coding and css?

13

not really, ive only been followng tutorials whenever i do code editing

14

can you share your website link?

15

Min butikk
like this? i kind of had to make a new one because i completely messed up the whole code on my first one so i want to make the header complete before i do anything else

16

When you click on button, modal search opens up, you need to get that code out of modal to put at place you want

17

and that happens in header-search right? and i just paste it in wherever i want it in the header? and if i want to costumise it to how i want how do i do that because i still dont really understand where the shape and style of the search bar is coming from

18

If you can give me Collab code then I can send request and do it for you in the morning, will it be ok?

19

yes thank you
code: 5360

20

I sent you the request, please check