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Customizing LibGuides

This guide assists you in making custom changes to LibGuides

Create forms

Here is a search form with two tabs:
 


Let's walk through all the pieces of this code. 

First, we start with a div that will contain our search box. <div> tags hold pieces of HTML and keep them all together, just like a bin for holding books. 

<div>
Then, we have a list. <ul> tags create lists. Inside ul tags are list items which use the <li> tag.   
<ul>
    <li class="active"><a data-toggle="tab" href="#jstor">JSTOR</a></li>
    <li><a data-toggle="tab" href="#googlescholar">Google Scholar</a></li>
</ul>

<div>

For each of our tabs, we have another div. Inside this div are all the pieces of a form, including the form action, method, target, etc.   

<div class="tab-pane fade in active" id="jstor">
<form action="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?" method="get" role="form" target="_blank"><input class="form-control" id="Query" name="Query" placeholder="Find scholarly articles" required="" type="text" value="" /> <input class="btn btn-info btn-sm btn-submit" type="submit" value="Search JSTOR" />&nbsp;</form>
</div>

<div class="tab-pane fade" id="googlescholar">
<form action="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?" method="get" target="_blank"><input class="form-control" id="q" name="q" placeholder="Find scholarly articles, case law, and patents" required="" type="text" /> <input class="btn btn-info btn-sm btn-submit" type="submit" value="Search Google Scholar" />&nbsp;</form>
</div>

Finally, we close out our original two div tags. 

</div>
</div>