I am working on a search bar for my site. It is positioned correctly on the site, it's styled and everything works just fine, I added a placeholder and positioned/styled it inside the search bar as I liked it to fit the rest of my site. If I click inside the search bar and write anything, the written letters appear in the default position of the placeholder (middle of the search bar), but I want them to be positioned differently (more to the left and lower), like the placeholder. The placeholder looks good but the typed-in text doesn't.
The HTML looks like this:
<input id="searchbar" type="text" placeholder="Suche..." />
The search bar is styled as following:
#searchbar {
grid-area: search;
font-size: max(var(--ändern), 20px);
font-family: var(--schriftart);
background-color: var(--hintergrundfarbe);
color: var(--schriftfarbe);
border: solid 1px;
border-radius: 0.75vw;
border-color: var(--hintergrundfarbe);
text-align: center;
width: 15vw;
height: max(2.5vw, calc(150px / 4));
margin-left: 1.25vw;
margin-top: 0.5vw;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
input:focus {
outline: none;
}
The placeholder is styled as following:
#searchbar::placeholder {
color: var(--schriftfarbe);
filter: opacity(0.5);
position: absolute;
left: 20px;
top: auto;
bottom: auto;
}
I tried to use
#searchbar:focus {
position: relative;
left: 20px;
top: auto;
bottom: auto;
}
but it shifts the whole search bar, not only the the typed-in content. I also tried
text-indent: 40px;
but doesn't seem to change anything either. I would be happy for anyone trying to help me :)
By the looks it might be your font-family. Try a different font like Arial for tests.
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;