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iftomkins
Maven
11 years ago

Search appearing as "Go" on iPhone: How to change the search input type to type="search"

In testing our mobile V1 community, we noticed that when the user is focused on the search input, the iphone keyboard says "Go". It should say "Search". In order for it to say search, the input must ...
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    PaoloT
    11 years ago

    Hi iftomkins 

     

    thanks for sharing the StackOverflow article. How I see - it there are two options:

     

    1. Attempt the customization of the search field. Rather than using the OOTB component - you may try to create a custom component using the required input type 
    2. Raise an Idea in our ideation board - this should give it some visibility to product management. It sounds like it could be a quick win, however I am not really in a position to see the full picture around what is required to change this in terms of effort and testing within the platform etc... Best to put it out there, and get it reviewed by our product managers!

    Thanks,

     

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PaoloT
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
11 years ago

Hi iftomkins 

 

I don't think jQuery allows you to change the type attribute of an input field. However - you may try and set the "placeholer" attribute to determine which watermark text appears within the search input field. I have not tested it as I don't have an iPhone :smileyhappy:

 

Let us know if that works,