Add Instant Search (autocomplete search) results to your Help Center

You can display links to suggested articles while the user is entering their search term by enabling Instant Search. The user can select matched articles directly from the Search box without going to the search result page first.

Note: Instant Search is available by default in standard themes and themes that were customized after the release Instant Search on July 5th, 2016.

Applicable templates

• Whichever template contains your Search expression (most often it's the Header or Home page template)

Applicable expression

• {{search}}

Recipe

• Add instant=true to the Search expression.

  {{search instant=true}}

Example

<div class="search-box">
  <h1 class="help-center-name">{{help_center.name}}</h1>
  {{search instant=true}}
</div>