Google CSE layout settings

Posted At : July 13, 2007 6:53 AM | Posted By : Mark Lynch
Related Categories: General
I've just added a Google CSE search to a government/education site and ran into problems due to the forced width of the google search results box.

After a bit of googling (how many times can I use google in one post?) I found this at google groups: Modify width of search results

The solution in there was correct to set the FORID to 11 - which allows a minimum width of 500px.

I searched for documentation on what the different options for FORID are and what it even meant and eventually found this: Configure Google Search Module.

In summary it controls the position of the advertisement space.

FORID: 9 - Ads on Right Side
FORID: 10 - Ads Top and Right
FORID: 11 - Ads Top and Bottom
However, the site I was working on was a government site and so had ads turned off - however the code still reserves the space on the RHS for the ads. When switching to FORID:11 there is no space resevered on the side and the top and bottom spaces collapse which leaves a much narrower window - minimum width 500px as opposed to ~740px

Cheers, Mark

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