Can I change the words "Search Confluence" in the Confluence search field?
Asked by Dan Moran:

Can I change the words "Search Confluence" in the Confluence search field?


Answers:
author: Dan Moran
body: Sandro has answered this question in my unintentional similar posting:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/20506/change-the-default-text-in-the-search-box>.


author: Remo Siegwart
body: We did that in Confluence 4 with some JavaScript in **Browse =\> Confluence Admin =\> Look and Feel =\> Custom HTML**:

```
&lt;script&gt;AJS.toInit(function ($) {    AJS.applySearchPlaceholders = function (scope) {        var CUSTOM_PLACEHOLDER = "YOUR PLACEHOLDER";        $searchBox = $("#quick-search-query");		$searchBox.attr("placeholder", CUSTOM_PLACEHOLDER);		$searchBox.closest("form").find("input[type='submit']").val(CUSTOM_PLACEHOLDER);        $searchBox.data("quicksearch", {            placeholder: $searchBox.attr("placeholder") || $searchBox.closest("form").find("input[type='submit']").val(),            placeholded: true        });        if (!$.browser.safari) {            $searchBox.val($searchBox.data("quicksearch").placeholder);            $searchBox.addClass("placeholded");            $searchBox.focus(function () {                var $this = $(this);                if ($this.data("quicksearch").placeholded) {                    $this.data("quicksearch").placeholded = false;                    $this.val("");                    $this.removeClass("placeholded");                }            });            $searchBox.blur(function () {                var $this = $(this);                if ($this.data("quicksearch").placeholder &amp;&amp; (/^\s*$/).test($this.val())) {                    $this.val($this.data("quicksearch").placeholder);                    $this.data("quicksearch").placeholded = true;                    $this.addClass("placeholded");                }            });        } else {            $searchBox.type = "search";            $searchBox.attr("results", 10);            $searchBox.attr("placeholder", $searchBox.data("quicksearch").placeholder);            $searchBox.val("");        }    };    AJS.applySearchPlaceholders();});&lt;/script&gt;
```

Dont't forget to replace **"YOUR PLACEHOLDER"** with the text you want to display.

**PS: Please stop asking the same question [over](/questions/20506/change-the-default-text-in-the-search-box) and [over](/questions/20519/can-the-default-text-in-the-confluence-search-box-search-confluence-be-changed) again.**


author: HuseinA
body: For Doc Theme specificially, you can change this by modifying the following in confluence-install/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/confluence/setup/atlassian-bundled-plugins.zip/doctheme-x.x.x.jar/doctheme/**i18n.properties**:

```
doctheme.global.search.name = Search Confluence
```

For more details on how to edit files within JAR archives, please refer to [this page](http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/y4EuBg).

For other themes that inherits from the default one, you can modify this particular line using [this method](http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/cQQD):

```
quick.search.submit=Search
```


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: This should Be straightforward with a bit of JavaScript, or you could create a partial language pack to do the same job.