I've been trying to do this a bunch of different ways. I'm using foundation 6 and although I have been unable to locate the responsible css value it seems that the top-bar class is preventing me from using foundations columns correctly.
The nav is almost how I want it, I just want a the searchbox to autosize itself, without pushing the elements on the right side down.
heres a codepen which includes a bunch of other stuff i tried: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/MKPPzm (not sure why the "Logo" isnt aligned right but it works on my machine) Below is the HTML
<header class="top-bar">
<div class="row">
<!-- LEFT- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
<div class="top-bar-title">Logo</div>
<div class="top-bar-left">
<div class="row">
<div class="large-12 columns">
<div class="row collapse">
<div class="small-10 columns">
<input class="topSearch" type="search" placeholder="Search">
</div>
<div class="small-2 columns">
<button href="#" class="button searchButton"><a class="fa fa-caret-down searchCaret"></a></button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- RIGHT- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
<div class="top-bar-right">
<!-- LINKS- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
<ul class="menu navLinks">
<li class="linkHome"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li class="linkEvents"><a href="#">Events</a></li>
<li class="linkProfile"><a href="#">Profile</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</header>
This is what I ended up doing, which worked for the most part although I'm having some problems with the top-bar-right links moving faster than the form is resized when the window is resized, and this causes them to collide sooner than i would like.
<div class="top-bar-left">
<div class="input-group">
<input class="input-group-field topSearch" type="search" placeholder="Search">
<div class="input-group-button">
<button href="#" class="button searchButton" type="button" data-toggle="searchDrop"><a class="fa fa-caret-down searchCaret"></a></button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
and the CSS:
.top-bar .input-group-field { width: 100%; }
.top-bar-left { width: 45%; }
edit: fix for the "moving faster" is to use width: calc(100% - [size of rest of container])