# Search - am I missing something?

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/search-am-i-missing-something/34741>\
**Category:** Developer help\
**Created:** [December 11, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/search-am-i-missing-something/34741 "2022-12-11T23:01:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cathy\_Sarisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/cathy_sarisky/32/25750_2.png) [@Cathy\_Sarisky](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Cathy_Sarisky)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/search-am-i-missing-something/34741/1 "2022-12-11T23:01:44Z")

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I thought it’d be straightforward to add a search box to ghost. Am I missing a tag that’ll cause that to happen? The {{search}} helper and data-search only cause a search button to show up so that the search box can appear. Is there a way to call the native search from a search form built into the page?

I looked at [Ghost Theme Development: Adding search to a theme](https://ghost.org/docs/themes/search/) - didn’t help.