Formatting request for search.php (and probably others)

[pscs]

While trying to change the layout of the search results page (for 7.1) using CSS I noticed that you have search.php adding lots of <br/> tags to...

[sligobiz]

Hi is it possible to have the search results displayed with an image and text description side by side. (V6)

[benklocek]

Is there any way to add css classes for the categories that a result is from?
Ex:

<div class="result_block categoryx categoryz categor

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