That's tricky - there are any number of valid reasons why old features of the default template are now unsupported. And I can think of at least one reason why a button for a search feature is a good thing (accessibility). The current default template is
very good - it's, fast, light-weight, responsive, beautiful, and easy to modify - the old template was none of those things. Compare how your old template looks when you resize the browser windows to 300x400 to the current default (how it looks on a mobile phone).
You don't
need to know HTML and CSS to use DokuWiki - but it should be a basic requirement
if you want to customise DokuWiki appearance beyond the core customisation capabilities. It's beyond the scope of this forum to teach it - there are many good resources if you wish to learn it (i.e.
Mozilla.org,
W3C.org)
userstyle.css is a file
you create. It lives in
$DokuWiki conf. Ideally you'd use it to apply new rules rather that over-ride existing ones (though it's not uncommon to do so).
To "hide" the search button create
$DokuWiki/conf/userstyle.css and add the following as content, then refresh your browser:-
/* Hide search button */
/* this is not good for accessibility (better to move it off-screen) */
input[type="submit"], input[type="button"], input[type="reset"], input.button, a.button, button, .qq-upload-button {
display: none;
}
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Note: I haven't tested it to see what, if any, undesirable side-effects it has. If it breaks your theme you get to keep the pieces :)