Change the layout of the search results?

Question

Currently the search results page is in the 2coloums-left but I want to make it centred just to display the results, I tried editing the catalogsearch.xml of the theme file and the Settemplate tag, but no luck. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Add the change of the template to your local.xml

<catalogsearch_result_index translate="label">
    <label>Quick Search Form</label>
    <reference name="root">
        <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/1column.phtml</template></action>
    </reference>
</catalogsearch_result_index>