Search input with an icon Bootstrap

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No clue how I can do this, since BS 4 doesn't support glyphicons. Do I set it up as a background or do I apply different positioning to a font-awesome icon?

This is my code so far:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-rwoIResjU2yc3z8GV/NPeZWAv56rSmLldC3R/AZzGRnGxQQKnKkoFVhFQhNUwEyJ" crossorigin="anonymous">

<div class="form-group col-md-4">
  <input class="form-control rounded-0 py-2" type="search" value="search" id="example-search-input">
</div>
<!-- /.form-group -->

I want to use this font-awesome icon. And I've tried adding it as a background-image too, as in:

.form-control {
  background-image: url('https://res.cloudinary.com/dt9b7pad3/image/upload/v1502810110/angle-down-dark_dkyopo.png');
  background-position: right center 5px;
}

But that doesn't do anything. The only way I can think of is to add font-awesome icon and then set the positioning to absolute, right? But I'm not sure if that's the 'clean' and correct way to do it? Do I need to take a different approach to this? Someone help! Thank you!

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6 Answers

I made another variant with dropdown menu (perhaps for advanced search etc).. Here is how it looks like:

Bootstrap 4 searh bar with dropdown menu

<div class="input-group my-4 col-6 mx-auto">
    <input class="form-control py-2 border-right-0 border" type="search" placeholder="Type something..." id="example-search-input">
    <span class="input-group-append">
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-outline-primary dropdown-toggle dropdown-toggle-split border border-left-0 border-right-0 rounded-0" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
            <span class="sr-only">Toggle Dropdown</span>
        </button>
        <button class="btn btn-outline-primary rounded-right" type="button">
            <i class="fas fa-search"></i>
        </button>
        <div class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-right">
            <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Action</a>
            <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Another action</a>
            <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Something else here</a>
            <div role="separator" class="dropdown-divider"></div>
            <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Separated link</a>
        </div>
    </span>
</div>

Note: It appears green in the screenshot because my site main theme is green.

user_1936340

Here's a fairly simple way to achieve it by enclosing both the magnifying glass icon and the input field inside a div with relative positioning.

Absolute positioning is applied to the icon, which takes it out of the normal document layout flow. The icon is then positioned inside the input. Left padding is applied to the input so that the user's input appears to the right of the icon.

Note that this example places the magnifying glass icon on the left instead of the right. This is recommended when using <input type="search"> as Chrome adds an X button in the right side of the searchbox. If we placed the icon there it would overlay the X button and look fugly.

Here is the needed Bootstrap markup.

<div class="position-relative">
    <i class="fa fa-search position-absolute"></i>
    <input class="form-control" type="search">
</div>

...and a couple CSS classes for the things which I couldn't do with Bootstrap classes:

i {
    font-size: 1rem;
    color: #333;
    top: .75rem;
    left: .75rem
}

input {
    padding-left: 2.5rem;
}

You may have to fiddle with the values for top, left, and padding-left.

user_6491310

in ASPX bootstrap v4.0.0, no beta (dl 21-01-2018)

<div class="input-group">
<asp:TextBox ID="txt_Product" runat="server" CssClass="form-control" placeholder="Product"></asp:TextBox>
<div class="input-group-append">
    <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton3" runat="server" CssClass="btn btn-outline-primary">
        <i class="ICON-copyright"></i>
    </asp:LinkButton>
</div>

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