title: What is the CSS secret of the Google search box?
body: <p>I am studying the css methods Google uses to create their ui. I realized that the css code on their home page contains no reference to their search box; it seems like just a naked input tag, with not a border, background image or any of the conventions normally used to stylize a border. And yet it can display not only a hue and a kind of gradient, but it is slightly round and also reacts to the cursor focus.</p>
  
  <p>So, your guess is as good as mine. Please use your Firebug to check it out and help me get to the bottom of this riddle.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.google.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.google.com/</a></p>
  
  <p>EDIT: Just to be clear, I'm not trying to make an aesthetic judgment. Although I think minimalism of Google's homepage is fantastic, I am really interested to find out the techniques they used to stylize the borders around their search box -- without using any css whatsoever.</p>