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:

To disable 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: