WordPress widgets offer us a lot of flexibility. By using widgets, we can easily include a variety of functions into different widget areas within our WordPress blog. However, it can sometimes be difficult to figure out how to properly style these widgets.
Here we examine how to flexibly style the native WordPress Search Widget. This is the search widget found in thesearchform.php file of the default theme.
Note – If your WordPress theme has a searchform.php file, then your theme search widget will be used.