d64d6f53f31908c3570247a94023297d44ce3ee4
hiram
  Thu Sep 5 14:47:32 2024 -0700
add prompt text to input box and correctly do not place + in front of - refs #32596

diff --git src/hg/htdocs/assemblySearch.html src/hg/htdocs/assemblySearch.html
index 88244d5..3394cb3 100755
--- src/hg/htdocs/assemblySearch.html
+++ src/hg/htdocs/assemblySearch.html
@@ -1,30 +1,30 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML>
 <!--#set var="TITLE" value="Genome Assembly Search" -->
 <!--#set var="ROOT" value="" -->
 
 <!--#include virtual='$ROOT/inc/gbPageStartHardcoded.html' -->
 
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<!--#echo var='ROOT' -->/style/assemblySearch.css">
 
     <h1>Genome assembly search and request</h1>
 <hr>
     <form id="searchForm">
         <div class="formDiv"> <!-- the entire form element -->
         <div>	<!-- container div for search box and submit/clear buttons -->
         <label for="searchBox">Enter search term(s) to find assembly:</label>
-        <input type="text" id="searchBox" name="searchBox" required>
+        <input type="text" id="searchBox" placeholder="e.g.: white rhino* -southern" name="searchBox" required>
         <div class="submitContainer">
            <button id="submitSearch" type="submit">Search</button>
            <div id="loadingSpinner" class="spinner"></div>
         </div>
         <button type="button" id="clearSearch">Clear</button>&nbsp;-
         <button type="button" id="advancedSearchButton">Show advanced search options</button>
            <!-- mouse over this text to see pop-up help message -->
            <span class="searchTip">Advanced search help
       <span class="searchTiptext"> <!-- hidden span for pop-up help message -->
 <ol id="searchTipList" class="noBullets">
 <li> + (plus) sign before <b>+word</b> to force included in result</li>
 <li> - (minus) sign before <b>-word</b> to exclude word from result</li>
 <li> * (asterisk) character at end of <b>word*</b> to make the word be a prefix search</li>
 <li> enclose "words in quotes" to form a phrase for the search</li>
 <li> all searches are case insensitive</li>