How to add a search box with icon to the navbar in Bootstrap 3?

I’m running BS3 on a dev site and the following produces the effect/layout you’re requesting. Of course you’ll need the glyphicons set up in BS3.

<div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-static-top" role="navigation">

    <div class="navbar-header">
        <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-ex1-collapse">
        <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        </button>
        <a class="navbar-brand" rel="home" href="https://stackoverflow.com/" title="Aahan Krish's Blog - Homepage">ITSMEEE</a>
    </div>

    <div class="collapse navbar-collapse navbar-ex1-collapse">

        <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
            <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/topic/notes/">/notes</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/topic/dev/">/dev</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/topic/good-reads/">/good-reads</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/topic/art/">/art</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/topic/bookmarks/">/bookmarks</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/all-topics/">/all</a></li>
        </ul>

        <div class="col-sm-3 col-md-3 pull-right">
        <form class="navbar-form" role="search">
        <div class="input-group">
            <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search" name="srch-term" id="srch-term">
            <div class="input-group-btn">
                <button class="btn btn-default" type="submit"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-search"></i></button>
            </div>
        </div>
        </form>
        </div>

    </div>
</div>

UPDATE: See JSFiddle

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