The appearance of search engine output can be controlled in a variety of ways. The simplest is to use parameters in the search URL, for example to control whether the size or date of a matched page is shown. By using a style sheet you can get control over the fonts, colors, and spacing of the text in the search output. Each component of the output is surrounded by CSS classes. Documentation for using CSS is in the Search Guide.
The next version of the search engine contains a few new classes to control the search output:
Blossom_DocBlock: A div that surrounds all of the output for each document matched by a query. Use this to control block-level behavior such as shading, hovering, and selecting.
Blossom_DocType: If a document is not HTML, then an indicator of the document type is added to the title. This class controls the style of the indicator.
Blossom_MoreButtons: Links for the "next" and "previous" pages of search results are displayed when the "more" option is used. This style controls the format of the link text.
Blossom_SearchForm: A div containing the search-again forms.
You can access the new version of the search engine by using "nquery" in place of "query" in your search URL. Use nquery just for testing, as it changes regularly as we test new search engine features. The changes will migrate to the production search engine, "query", in early November.
Update. These features went live on 11/9/2020.
