# Disabling search button?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-search-button/123127
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 16, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-search-button/123127 "2019-07-16T19:47:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@prjhelp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/prjhelp)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-search-button/123127/1 "2019-07-16T19:47:11Z")
How would I go about completely removing the search button and not having the icon appear in the top bar.
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### Author:  [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-search-button/123127/2 "2019-07-16T19:49:30Z")
You would have to remove the button using CSS as there isn’t a setting for it, but search is probably the most helpful component of a busy forum. Do you have a specific use case for disabling it?
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### Author:  [@prjhelp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/prjhelp)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-search-button/123127/3 "2019-07-16T20:19:34Z")
I’m trying to keep the number of users/threads limited, and I just don’t think the search bar is necessary.
Right now I’m trying to add `a[id="search-button"] { display:none; }` to the CSS of the light theme, but that doesn’t seem to work.
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### Author:  [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2019, 8:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-search-button/123127/4 "2019-07-16T20:21:31Z")
The rule needs to be more specific:
```plaintext
.d-header-icons .icon#search-button {
display: none;
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2019, 8:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-search-button/123127/5 "2019-08-15T20:21:37Z")
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