diff --git a/htroot/yacy/ui/css/yacyui-portalsearch.css b/htroot/yacy/ui/css/yacyui-portalsearch.css
index 14bd965ae..c5426d7d0 100644
--- a/htroot/yacy/ui/css/yacyui-portalsearch.css
+++ b/htroot/yacy/ui/css/yacyui-portalsearch.css
@@ -4,6 +4,17 @@
 .ui-dialog .ui-dialog-buttonpane button {
 	font-size: 14px;
 }
+#ysearch .fancy {
+	background-image: url(/yacy/ui/img-2/magnify.png);
+	background-repeat: no-repeat;
+	background-position: 2px 1px;
+	padding-left: 20px;
+	border-width: small;
+	border-color: #239AFF;
+	border-style: solid;
+	-moz-border-radius: 5px; 
+	-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
+}
 #ypopup * {
 	margin: 0;
     padding: 0;
diff --git a/htroot/yacy/ui/js/yacyui-portalsearch.js b/htroot/yacy/ui/js/yacyui-portalsearch.js
index 1057e7072..29f5fb52f 100644
--- a/htroot/yacy/ui/js/yacyui-portalsearch.js
+++ b/htroot/yacy/ui/js/yacyui-portalsearch.js
@@ -78,8 +78,12 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
 	});	
 	$('#ysearch').keyup(function() {
 		startRecord = 0;
-		if(!submit) yacysearch(false);
-		else submit = false;		
+		if ($("#yquery").getValue() == '') {
+			$("#ypopup").dialog('close');
+		} else {		 
+			if(!submit) yacysearch(false);
+			else submit = false;
+		}		
 		return false;		
 	});
 	$('#ysearch').submit(function() {
diff --git a/htroot/yacy/ui/yacyui-portaltest.html b/htroot/yacy/ui/yacyui-portaltest.html
index ead108f33..375ec4062 100644
--- a/htroot/yacy/ui/yacyui-portaltest.html
+++ b/htroot/yacy/ui/yacyui-portaltest.html
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@
 				};
 				$.getScript(yconf.url+'/yacy/ui/js/yacyui-portalsearch.js', function(){});
 			});
-		</script> 			
+		</script>			
 		<h3>YaCy Portal Search:</h3>
 		<div id="yacy">
 			<form id="ysearch" method="get" accept-charset="UTF-8" action="http://localhost:8080/yacysearch.html">
-				<input name="search" id="yquery" type="text" size="15" maxlength="80" value=""/>
+				<input name="search" id="yquery" class="fancy" type="text" size="15" maxlength="80" value=""/>
 				<input type="hidden" name="verify" value="true" />
 				<input type="hidden" name="maximumRecords" value="10" />
 				<input type="hidden" name="resource" value="local" />
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 &lt;/script&gt;
 &lt;div id="yacy"&gt;
 	&lt;form id="ysearch" method="get" accept-charset="UTF-8" action="http://localhost:8080/yacysearch.html"&gt;
-		&lt;input name="query" id="yquery" type="text" size="15" maxlength="80" value=""/&gt;
+		&lt;input name="query" id="yquery" class="fancy" type="text" size="15" maxlength="80" value=""/&gt;
 		&lt;input type="hidden" name="verify" value="true" /&gt;
 		&lt;input type="hidden" name="maximumRecords" value="10" /&gt;
 		&lt;input type="hidden" name="resource" value="local" /&gt;
@@ -93,4 +93,3 @@ your own custom theme. <br/>Themes are installed into: DATA/HTDOCS/yacy/ui/css/t
 </p>			
 	</body>	
 </html>
-