# A busca limitada à categoria também deve pesquisar nas subcategorias?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-search-limited-to-category-also-search-subcategories/41100>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Março 15, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-search-limited-to-category-also-search-subcategories/41100 "2016-03-15T18:12:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [Fevereiro 7, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-search-limited-to-category-also-search-subcategories/41100/3 "2017-02-07T22:00:20Z")

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This is now supported as per this change by @sam

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/df8f365d999e113615c51efee4cfa3115c267783](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/df8f365d999e113615c51efee4cfa3115c267783)

So:

To search #howto and all sub categories use

> something #howto

OR

> something category:howto

To restrict it so you only search the category #howto without children use:

> something #=howto

OR

> something category:=howto

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We still need to decide what to do about the “search this category” checkbox.

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