# Allow searching across multiple categories

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-searching-across-multiple-categories/98045>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** completed\
**Created:** [September 25, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-searching-across-multiple-categories/98045 "2018-09-25T21:27:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_Hunger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michael_hunger/32/109715_2.png) [@Michael\_Hunger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Michael_Hunger)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-searching-across-multiple-categories/98045/1 "2018-09-25T21:27:09Z")

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I’m trying to do a search across multiple categories like:

`category:10,11,12` but it seems to use only the first one.

Am I missing some syntax? I presumed the same as for tags?

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