Embedding google search box within Confluence pages

Tim Milner

Hi, I am unable to find an appropriate response to this question in the forums or online. Are we able to embed a standard google search box within our Confluence pages? So that entering our search term into this box within a Confluence page would take us to the results page on google.

Is this something that can be done?

Thanks,

Tim

Dennis Kromhout van der Meer

Basically there are two ways of doing this:

Globally:

You can insert a google search box at the bottom (or wherever else you like) by injecting html via javascript. Browse to Administration > Look and Feel > Custom HTML > "At end of the BODY" > Edit, paste the following:

<script type="text/javascript">
AJS.$('#main').append('<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search">\
<input type="text" name="q" maxlength="255" />\
<input type="submit" value="Google Search" />\
</form>');
</script>

Per Page:

If you don't want a search box on every page, it's also possible to create you own macro which you can do at Administration > Configuration > User Macros and using the following (rendered) html:

<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search">
<input type="text" name="q" maxlength="255" />
<input type="submit" value="Google Search" />
</form>

Good luck!