How to adjust the Caret (blinking cursor) size inside searchbar with css

Question

I tried to google it, and surprisingly found no result related... I wonder how can I use css to adjust the blinking cursor inside the search box with CSS? I adjusted the size of the search box, but seem the blinking cursor's size is still original small text size.

Answer 1

You cannot change the width of the caret (at least for now); But you can change the caret color for majority of modern browsers

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/caret-color

input {
 caret-color: red;
 caret-color: #ff0000;
 caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);
 caret-color: hsl(0, 97%, 50%);
}

Answer 2

Searching for Caret instead of Cursor will give you more results.

Appearently, it is not possible in a textarea, but is possible in other elements through Javascript:

Take a look at:

How to control cursor/caret size with CSS

How to modify the caret with css

and

Styling text input caret

Answer 3

There is no way to styling the caret currently, but if you use another DOM element to display the input control value then you can. Take a look at How to use this square cursor in a HTML input field?

Answer 4

If caps is ok in your context, one easy hack is to use the css attribute font-variant: small-caps; to get the caret larger than the text.

Another approach is to create your own caret using an input field replacement, someone spent time and achieved something working, but the author recommend to keep using the standard caret.