Use DIV to wrap form control
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> div { margin: 2em; } </style> </head> <body class="required"> <form method="get" action="/"> <div> <label for="q">Search</label> <input type="search" placeholder="keywords" autosave="com.domain.search" results="7" name="q" /> </div> </form> </body> </html>