# Search widget on search page seems to load something

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-widget-on-search-page-seems-to-load-something/42242>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [2016年四月8日 14:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-widget-on-search-page-seems-to-load-something/42242 "2016-04-08T14:30:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![kayssun](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/kayssun/32/121620_2.png) [@kayssun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kayssun)\
**Post date:** [2016年四月8日 14:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-widget-on-search-page-seems-to-load-something/42242/1 "2016-04-08T14:30:16Z")

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Hi

This is just a minor issue, but I got someone asking me about this, so:

If I search for something via the widget and press return, I get to the search result page. When I now click on the search widget again, it shows the search term and a spinner but I’d guess I does not actually load anything.

Also, when I change the search term in the full-page-search text field, the search term in the widget stays the same. Not sure if this is actually a problem. It looked a bit confusing.

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2016年四月9日 02:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-widget-on-search-page-seems-to-load-something/42242/2 "2016-04-09T02:53:33Z")

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Probably little tweaks for you to look at @sam

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**Author:** ![kayssun](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/kayssun/32/121620_2.png) [@kayssun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kayssun)\
**Post date:** [2016年八月2日 11:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-widget-on-search-page-seems-to-load-something/42242/3 "2016-08-02T11:25:29Z")

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Hi

Is there any progress on this? Can I provide help in any way?

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2016年八月8日 23:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-widget-on-search-page-seems-to-load-something/42242/4 "2016-08-08T23:16:42Z")

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@eviltrout will be doing some work on search this week and can take a peek.

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**Author:** ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\
**Post date:** [2016年八月9日 20:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-widget-on-search-page-seems-to-load-something/42242/5 "2016-08-09T20:12:17Z")

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Here’s a fix for the loading issue:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/8321bdab4eae9be002b273d8478938f988b850d1](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/8321bdab4eae9be002b273d8478938f988b850d1)

I’m not sure having the widget be bound to the field in the full page search is intuitive, so I left that behaviour for now.

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**Author:** ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\
**Post date:** [2016年八月9日 20:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-widget-on-search-page-seems-to-load-something/42242/6 "2016-08-09T20:12:24Z")

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