Manual:Enabling autocomplete in search box

Autocomplete or Search suggestions is a feature that displays a drop-down list of suggestions below the search box while text is being typed. On the MediaWiki platform, this feature is provided by making queries to the Opensearch API.

The built-in autocomplete feature


MediaWiki version 1.20+:

Enabled by default. Can be disabled the same as in 1.19. has been removed.

MediaWiki version 1.13 to 1.19:


 * is set true by default.


 * If you are using any version above 1.19 and also using Vector as your skin, you can also set  instead of.

To disable the autocomplete feature either disable all of, or disable only the search suggestions by hiding preference  and setting the default to.

MediaWiki version 1.8 to 1.12:

MediaWiki versions 1.6 and 1.7: