Template:Search box

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This template creates a simple search box for a page's all subpages, like archives.

Simple {{search box}} creates a search box. The scope is all subpages of the tagged page, excluding that page itself.

{{search box
 |root= /
 |search-break=<yes|no>
 |search-width=number
 |search-button-label=text
}}

root: The target page. |root=User talk:Example/Archives will search all subpages of User talk:Example/Archives. The default is the current page name.
noslash: By default, the target page itself is excluded, by appending a slash "/" to the "root" parameter. If you want to include it, set noslash=yes.
search-break: search-break=yes will insert a break between the search bar and search button. The default is no.

search-width: can be used to change the width of the text field, in characters. The default is 22, which fits the search bar with the default box width. Note: this is a bare number with no units.
search-button-label: can be used to change the text on the search button. The default is "Search".

{{search box |root=Wikipedia:FAQ |search-button-label=Search the FAQ}}

produces:

Example 2:

{{search box
 |root=User:84User
 |search-break=no
 |search-width=22
 |search-button-label=Search 84user's pages
}}

produces:

{{Search link}}: Make a link for Wikipedia's search page. Example: {{search link|tosa diary|pages with the phrase "tosa diary"}} creates pages with the phrase "tosa diary".
{{shortSearch}}, {{wpsearch}}: Create links also to google.

{{search box}}: Simple search box with choice of button below or to the right.
{{search prefixes}}: Multiple pages' subpages are searched at once.
{{search archives}} and {{archive banner}}: For searching archives. The latter, {{archive banner}} is of banner-style, like many other archive templates.

Search boxes are made by <inputbox> tags. See mw:Extension:InputBox.

For searches with exact matches, exact in upper and lower cases, or in punctuation marks, see Help:Searching#grep.

{{linksearch}}: Search for external links matching for a URL.
{{search deletion discussions}}: Search box for all kinds of deletion discussions.
{{dabsearch}}: Find page titles containing (any word), including the parentheses. Useful for Wikipedia:disambiguation study.
{{Help desk searches}}: List of links to google pages, specialized to search for example user pages, village pump, etc. Useful for the Wikipedia:help desk task.
{{spamsearch}}: Searches user pages for common spams, e.g. "we service", "leading manufacturer" etc.

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