WordPress: Removing ‘Search For’ text from Search Box

While I was customizing my WordPress theme I decided that the “Search for” text before the Search Box was unneccessary. This is how to take it out using CSS. This way, if you have to upgrade your WordPress version in the future you won’t have to modify the general-template.php file again to comment out the text.

1. First, FTP to the appropriate location holding your theme’s stylesheet.
   
2. Modify the style sheet with the appropriate code:

        label.screen-reader-text {
         display:none;
         }

   If the CSS above doesn’t work, the class id may be different for some reason… Use Firebug or IE Developer tools to find out the class id:

Here is a link to the forum post that helped me find out how to modify the text:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/269054

Here is the end result:

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