how to override the HTML of the search results page? i am trying to override the search-results page with no luck. All of the answers that i have found in google are about overriding the results template. since i am using a subtheme i want to override the whole HTML output of the page. I want to change the header, the footer etc..

Instead results page is using the page.tpl.php. So far i found this How to theme the page template for search results with no success.
Any correct way i can succeed this ?

Also i am trying to force the search to search only in specific content types and languages! Any suggestions?
Hope this will help you,

In Drupal 7, you can also achieve this

Using theme_search_results OR theme_search_result to override search results page.


theme_search_results : invoked for the search result page.

OR 
theme_search_result : invoked to render a single result

Both these theme functions used in a template file (search-results.tpl.php and search-result.tpl.php).

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