GMail toggle searchbar search box area.

Use this GreaseMonkey script to reclaim the hefty area that the GMail's searchbar and Logo area take up.

This script hides that whole searchbar area by default, and provides a 'Toggle Search' line in the header to show/hide the searchbar area.

This script works for plain GMail as well as Google Apps hosted corporate Gmail too.

Another nice feature is that, that when showing the search-box, the focus is automatically given to the search box, so you can simply start typing your search query.

As the header in source code also notes, this script has been adapted from the fine script at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43528

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• GMail
• Search
• Searchbar
• Bar
• hide
• toggle

[BKISHANN]

Hey man! did u try @require to include jquery in ur greasemonkey script??

[gurjeet79]

@BKISHANN Yes, I started with @requiring a hosted version of jQuery, but was facing some issues with that (can't remember what, probably related to my porting effort for Google Chrome), so I decided to inline the script instead. I think this is better for the performance too since it will not affect the GMail load times either.

[pokey302]

I tried it. It never added that extra button. Its installed and enabled but no button.