# Search not displaying on mobile
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-not-displaying-on-mobile/257775
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** pr-welcome, algolia-search
**Created:** [March 1, 2023, 10:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-not-displaying-on-mobile/257775 "2023-03-01T10:21:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Dickens](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Dickens)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2023, 10:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-not-displaying-on-mobile/257775/1 "2023-03-01T10:21:26Z")
Hi, I have installed the plugin and connected with Algolia and everything is working fine on desktop
But on mobile the search input does not show, I can see it in devtools and can get it to show with extra css but the functionality does not work
I would also like to be able to place the search input somewhere else on the page is this possible?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2023, 6:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-not-displaying-on-mobile/257775/5 "2023-03-11T06:13:27Z")
I’ve made some enquiries, and currently the Algolia search option is desktop-only.
However, it should now be possible to use the normal search as an alternative on mobile when #algolia-search is enabled on your site. 👍
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-algolia/pull/84](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-algolia/pull/84)
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Dickens](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Dickens)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2023, 9:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-not-displaying-on-mobile/257775/6 "2023-03-13T09:21:32Z")
Thanks @JammyDodger I have looked into this and couldn’t see any reason why algolia shouldn’t work on mobile. Alogolia was being hidden by css so I added new custom css for it in common.scss and with a bit of tweaking to the drop down display have it working on mobile too.
Going to the effort of having algolia as the search engine it’s a bit odd to find that it doesn’t work on mobile.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2023, 9:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-not-displaying-on-mobile/257775/7 "2023-03-13T09:41:02Z")
That’s good news. 🙂 Let me check if I garbled my question and see if this is something we can tweak for everyone. 👍
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@Andrew_Dickens I’ve just checked back, and if you’re interested we’d love it if you could add your changes as a PR to the plugin so everyone could benefit. 🙂 👍
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-not-displaying-on-mobile/257775/8 "2023-03-20T01:08:40Z")
Note… on desktop you can still reach “advanced search” in Discourse which captures a few use cases missing from algolia (like user search and faceted search).
If it is amended so we ship with a mobile friendly CSS and outlet for algolia we need to ensure you still can reach the advanced Discourse search.