Styling input box that is between Actinic:StaticSearchField Tags

[graphicz]

Default inpuit in Search Results Bulk Area:

<Actinic:StaticSearchField>
<input class="input-border" type="text" name="SS" size="40"/>
</Actinic:StaticSearchField>

In Search and Search results layouts, if you style the input box by giving it a different class to the usual "input-border", that class is not recognised in the live site and is not present in Firebug.

<Actinic:StaticSearchField>
<input class="someplaceelse" type="text" name="SS" size="40"/>
 </Actinic:StaticSearchField>

Can anyone help to explain this?
Where do the codes for items wrapped in 'Actinic:StaticSearchField' tags reside?

Thanks

[graphicz]

Simple fix

Instead of:

<Actinic:StaticSearchField>
<input class="someplaceelse" type="text" name="SS" size="40"/>
 </Actinic:StaticSearchField>

Style: input.someplaceelse {styles in here}

<div class="someplaceelse">
<Actinic:StaticSearchField>
<input type="text" name="SS" size="40"/>
 </Actinic:StaticSearchField>
</div>

Style: div.someplaceelse {}
div.someplaceelse input {styles in here}

[peblaco]

Also add the class to the "actualtag".