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  • At my site: Animalcarebasics.com

    I cannot delete the search bar at the top for nothing. I used the inspect element in chrome and found this to be where it is originating from:

    <aside class=”widget-area header-widget-area”>

    But cannot find that anywhere. Have tried to delete it for six hours now. My website is running on a child theme through Genesis. Thoughts, please?

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  • It looks as if that is a widget area.
    Have you gone to “Appearance” -> “Widgets” admin screen.. and made sure you don’t have a search widget in that header widget area?

    Thread Starter zatteberry

    (@zatteberry)

    I checked my widget screens and I do have a widget area called “header” but it is empty.

    I do notice if I put something in that widget area that it appears right under the search bar which is very weird.

    Moderator Jose Castaneda

    (@jcastaneda)

    THEME COFFEE MONKEY

    It most likely means that the theme is using a search form somewhere in the template files. Have you tried contacting the theme’s developer for help about it?

    You could try hiding it with a little custom css:

    .site-header .search-form {
        display: none;
    }

    Thread Starter zatteberry

    (@zatteberry)

    Where would be the ideal place to put that at?

    Moderator Jose Castaneda

    (@jcastaneda)

    THEME COFFEE MONKEY

    Ideally in a custom CSS plugin; if you don’t already have one.

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