search_form
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Renders a form with a text input as a search form. The first argument must be the query flag that is used to send the search query with as URL parameter.
Also accepts the following arguments:
url: The URL to show the search results on (Optional, default: current url)form_class: The html class for the search form tag. (Optional)Every other key-value argument will be used as html tags for the input.
The following generates a GET request for the search page '/search'.
When submitted, the search form makes a GET request to the following url: '/search?q=<search query>'.
Input:
{% search_form "q", url: "/search" %}
Output:
<form action="/search" class="">
<input type="text" name="q" value="">
</form>💡 You can also easily create your own form, as long as the page your action points to has asearch_resultstag and uses the query object parameter to populate the search string.