Remove search box from header in twentyeleven

Are you using a Child Theme?
You could add display: none; to the <div> containing your search fields.

Is it necessary to copy search field from twenty elven to child theme?

No, that is not necessary. Use the Child Theme’s style.css file for this alteration.

Style.css is not working in my site. How can I be sure that I am using childtheme?

Yo aasbd,

You certainly are using a style.css file in your theme and if you look on line 632, you’ll see:

#branding #s {
	float: right;
	-webkit-transition-duration: 400ms;
	-webkit-transition-property: width, background;
	-webkit-transition-timing-function: ease;
	-moz-transition-duration: 400ms;
	-moz-transition-property: width, background;
	-moz-transition-timing-function: ease;
	-o-transition-duration: 400ms;
	-o-transition-property: width, background;
	-o-transition-timing-function: ease;
	width: 72px;
}

To hide the search field, you could simply change the above to read:

#branding #s {
	display:none;
}

I hope that helps.

Eric

Thanks a lot. How completely I can delete it? Because I want to take site title into one line. How can I do it?

All,

I saw this thread as I was researching this very topic today and wanted to contribute the technique I used.

I’m using WP 3.5.2 using the twentyeleven theme, and no, I didn’t child theme it, as the changes I have made were minimal. I know it’s good practice to do this (and I have on all the other WP blogs I have installed) but I chose not to on this one.

At any rate, for WP 3.5.2 using twentyeleven:

[removed – do not advise people to modify theme files – these kinds of changes need to be made in a child theme]

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

wordman

NO – modifying theme files is NEVER a good idea especially in a default theme.

A Child Theme must be used for modifications.