Is "SEARCH" hardcoded into the search form?

Author Message Marc Posted: 8/17/2015 Quote message  Hi. I am frustrated by the word "Search" appearing inside the search field in all of my artisteer 4 generated themes for wordpress. After tedious and frustrating research, I found this in researchform.php <form class="art-search" method="get" name="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/"> <input name="s" type="text" value="<?php echo esc_attr(get_search_query()); ?>" /> <input class="art-search-button" type="submit" value="<?php echo __('Search', THEME_NS); ?>" /> </form> Does this mean that the SEARCH string, as it is in english, is hardcoded here?   Marc Posted: 8/17/2015 Quote message  The word "Search" appears in white on black, which is ugly on my theme. How can I change this please?