Help Center - Change default placeholder text in your Search Box

The Placeholder option was a snap!  Just searched for the placeholder on the home page and change the text after the placeholder =' to anything you want...'}}

{{search submit=false instant=true class='search search-full' placeholder='Search Box – I’m wicked smart, please ask me anything...'}}

How can I use dynamic content as placeholder in search bar?

I know this is not valid, I want to do something like this. so that I can show dynamic content in search bar.

{{search placeholder={{dc 'search_text'}} submit=false instant=settings.instant_search class='search search-full'}}

Here, search_text is the name of key I added in the dynamic content section of zendesk support.

Hey @...

I would expect the Dynamic Content to work correctly in that instance but if it doesn't render, you can also use the locale helper to have conditional messages in your template

ex:

{{#is help_center.locale '$locale'}} {{search submit=false instant=true class='search search-full' placeholder='What are you searching for?'}}{{/is}}

{{#is help_center.locale '$locale2'}} {{search submit=false instant=true class='search search-full' placeholder='Another search string'}}{{/is}}

where the $locale is the ISO language code of your HC (ex: 'en-us', 'fr', 'nl', 'de')

Hi, thank you for the reply. your approach is working. But in that way I have to put strings in the template code. However I wanted to show dynamic content value that I have added in the Dynamic Content section in Zendesk support admin.

I was able to do it like below. It is kind of hack, but served my purpose.

in the home_page.hbs

{{search placeholder='Search' submit=false instant=settings.instant_search class='search search-full home-page-search'}}

at the bottom of the file I have added...

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.0.js"></script>
<script>
  const searchPlaceHolder = "{{dc 'search'}}";
  $(".home-page-search > input#query")[0].placeholder = searchPlaceHolder;
</script>

here 'search' is the key of the dynamic content I have added in support admin

Hi Ivy Gilbert! Both of these options are still valid, so could you share what you have added to your home page template and a screenshot of the search bar placeholder so that we can see what's going on in your situation?

Hello,

We're using the Copenhagen theme, and I'm not finding either spot to change the Search Box placeholder text.

Home: {{search submit=false instant=true class='search search-full'}}
JS: $(document).ready(function() {

Has the location or code changed for this?

How do you change the search bar text on pages other than the home page as circled below?