search_form

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'.

{% search_form "q", url: "/search" %}

When submitted, the search form makes a GET request to the following url: '/search?q=<search query>'.

HTML output:

<form action="/search" class="">
  <input type="text" name="q" value="">
</form>

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