Popup search results

Perhaps the trickiest part of integrating Blossom Search with a website is making the search results page blend in with the style of the site. Blossom has many options for formatting the results page, including head/tail files, template files, style sheets, and XML. Blossom is now testing its second-generation search-results overlay or popup window.

The primary benefit of putting the search results in a popup window is that its layout is independent of the page from which the search is performed and thus there is no need to insert the results into a page template. The popup is created in Javascript and styled in CSS. You can find all of the code needed on the Blossom website. Instructions for using the code are in the Search Guide section titled Using a Modal Popup.