You have to click on the search box and off first and then the effect will happen.

Leaving to the design systems team for further review. Two options that came up:

• Always showing search button
• Not allowing for search when the text box is blank

We think this is in the realm of the design systems team. Two possible options are 1) make the button disabled state when the input is empty 2) showing the button at all times

Web team discussed this with DST and we agree this is a bug and web team will fix this. Possible solutions include adding a required property to the input or adding some JavaScript that checks the value of the search. DST team will provide support for code review.

Noting that this might be addressable with the required attribute on the input element, <input required/>

Not allowing for search when the text box is blank

I routinely use the search box when it's empty to get to Special:Search trivially.

I do too.

How about just showing the search button when there's text in the search box, and not showing it when there's not.

@Izno @Lectrician1 what if this was made more obvious behaviour e.g. when focusing the search a link to special:search displayed ?

Sure

In T325904#8824884, @Jdlrobson wrote:

@Izno @Lectrician1 what if this was made more obvious behaviour e.g. when focusing the search a link to special:search displayed ?

I guess I should explain what I'm doing just a bit more. I click the search box and then hit enter usually, rather than the search button. I imagine the keyboard-exclusive users have a similar path.

I do not know if I would click on a dropdown. Not to say that it's a bad idea, but I do kind of think it's just working around a non-problem in some respects. So in that respect I guess I disagree that the current task title is in fact an issue.

@ovasileva I'd be tempted to decline this ticket since it's a mild annoyance in exchange for a feature that is apparently useful. What do you think?