How to change the text that is displayed in the Search Box Web Part in SharePoint Server 2013
Open SharePoint
Settings
Master pages and page layouts
Display Templates
Search
Open: Control_SearchBox.html
Search: prompt
Replace the value for the promt variable with the text that you want to display. Enclose the text in quotation marks.
Save the file.
In the Search Center, you can now see the new text.
Open SharePoint
Settings
Master pages and page layouts
Display Templates
Search
Open: Control_SearchBox.html
Search: prompt
Replace the value for the promt variable with the text that you want to display. Enclose the text in quotation marks.
Save the file.
In the Search Center, you can now see the new text.
