# Docs search form triggers full page reload on every keystroke

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/docs-search-form-triggers-full-page-reload-on-every-keystroke/283717
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** docs
**Created:** [October 27, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docs-search-form-triggers-full-page-reload-on-every-keystroke/283717 "2023-10-27T19:16:49Z")
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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docs-search-form-triggers-full-page-reload-on-every-keystroke/283717/1 "2023-10-27T19:16:50Z")

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With the latest Chrome browser on Ubuntu, entering three characters into the docs search form triggers a full page reload:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/8/6/78668a1192d3370c868eb33a7c02d57a03f433cf.png)

After the initial three characters have been entered, every subsequent keystroke in the search form triggers a full page reload.

I like the idea of the docs search results being dynamically loaded, but ideally only the docs topic list results would get reloaded, not the full page.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2023, 5:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docs-search-form-triggers-full-page-reload-on-every-keystroke/283717/2 "2023-10-31T05:55:26Z")

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This certainly feels like a regression of sorts… it is not even working right. Will ping some people internally.

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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2023, 2:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docs-search-form-triggers-full-page-reload-on-every-keystroke/283717/5 "2023-12-04T14:16:13Z")

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I’ve made this PR which updates the plugin to match the search behaviour in the rest of Discourse:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-docs/pull/159](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-docs/pull/159)

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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docs-search-form-triggers-full-page-reload-on-every-keystroke/283717/7 "2023-12-09T08:00:57Z")

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