Template:Search box

This template creates a simple search box for all a page's subpages, like archives.

• 1 Usage
• 2 Parameters
• 3 Examples
• 4 Templates for searching Wikipedia
  • 4.1 Search links
  • 4.2 Search boxes
  • 4.3 Page title searches
  • 4.4 Other Wikipedia editor help
• 5 See also

Simple {{search box}} creates a search box. The scope is all subpages of the tagged page, excluding that page itself.

{{search box
 |root= /
 |search-break=<yes|no>
 |search-width=number
 |search-button-label=text
}}

root

The target page. |root=User talk:Example/Archives will search all subpages of User talk:Example/Archives. The default is the current page name.

noslash

By default, the target page itself is excluded, by appending a slash "/" to the "root" parameter. If you want to include it, set noslash=yes.

search-break

search-break=yes will insert a break between the search bar and search button. The default is no.

search-width

can be used to change the width of the text field, in characters. The default is 22, which fits the search bar with the default box width. Note: this is a bare number with no units.

search-button-label

can be used to change the text on the search button. The default is "Search".

style

can be used to style the box with inline CSS.

{{search box |root=Wikipedia:FAQ |search-button-label=Search the FAQ}}

Example 2 with |search-width=:

{{search box
 |root=User:Example
 |search-width=22|search-button-label=Search User:Example's pages
}}

Example 3 with |style=:

{{search box
 |root=User:Example
 |search-button-label=Search User:Example's pages
 |style=width: fit-content;
}}

Asearch link stores a query in a link that takes you to live search results for that stored search. They're found on user pages and talk pages. Use one to bring the full feature set of MediaWiki Search, or features of external search engines, to bear on users unfamiliar with their search parameters.

One type of search link is a wikilink with all the capabilities of Search (search box), and with standard wikilink syntax: [[Special:Search/query| label]]. So this search link will (1) navigate: [[Special:search/Wales]] → Special:search/Wales or (2) search: [[Special:search/~Wales | search/~Wales]] → search/~Wales if you prefix a ~ tilde character.

All other search links are made from a template that will build a URL instead of wikilink. A URL can for example can call off-site search engines to search Wikipedia.

• {{Search link}} offers all the capabilities of Searching (search box), plus extra (URL) parameters for combinations of namespaces, and where you can escape the 20-results-per page-limitation, shareable: {{search link | et al | ''label'' | ns4 | ns5 | limit = 123}} → label.
• {{Regex}} – develop an advanced regex search. {{regex | \<--.*--> | label = Articles with comments missing the ! bang character | prefix=0}} → Articles with comments missing the ! bang character
• {{Template usage}} – develop a template regex search, and pinpoint specific template-call details. {{Template usage | Convert | \{{!}}C\{{!}}F | 0 | Articles that convert Celsius to Fahrenheit}} → Articles that convert Celsius to Fahrenheit
• {{ShortSearch}} – create three search links: {{ShortSearch | system operations research}} → WP GWP G (search Wikipedia, "Google" Wikipedia, and Google search)
• {{wpsearch}} – create five search links: {{wpsearch|collaborative search}} → collaborative search – Wikipedia search | Google search | Bing search | DuckDuckGo search | Yahoo search
• {{Wikidata search link}} – creates a Wikidata search link for descriptions, entities, items, properties, etc. → https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Universe&title=Special:Search&fulltext=1

• {{Search box}} – Simple search box with choice of button below or to the right
• {{Search prefixes}} – Multiple pages' subpages are searched at once.
• {{Archive banner}} – For searching archives. It is of banner-style, like many other archive templates.
• {{Search lists}} – For searching from lists of lists.

Search boxes are made by <inputbox> tags. See mw:Extension:InputBox.

• {{Canned search}} – Link to automated search results for a given term
• {{In title}} – Search for pages whose name contains given words
• {{Look from}} – Search for pages whose name begins with a given word

For searches with exact matches, exact in upper and lower cases, or in punctuation marks, see Help:Searching § grep.

• {{Linksearch}} – Searches for external links matching a URL
• {{dabsearch|term}} – External tool to find page titles containing a (term) in parentheses; useful for Wikipedia:disambiguation study
• {{Help desk searches}} – Navbox with list of links to Google pages, specialized to search for example user pages, village pump, etc.; useful for Wikipedia:Help desk tasks
• {{Spamsearch}} – Searches user pages for common spams, e.g. "we service", "leading manufacturer", etc.

• Help:Searching
• ‹The template Cat is being considered for merging.› Category:Search templates
• MediaWiki:Extension:InputBox § General syntax - how to create your own search box using <inputbox>...</inputbox>

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