I'm hitting a roadblock while attempting to develop my first web application. I am new to web design/development and I have just recently created my first website: . I am trying to create a large search box, along with a submit button that will take the user's input and get results back through the use of an API. (I know how to do this). What I need help on is creating this large search box and saving the users input to a file, variable or something. I did something like this on an android application, but I'm struggling with HTML and CSS. It would be really cool if I could get a search box similar to the ones found here: .