Turn on full-text search

Turn on the header search button#

1. Open your docs site while signed in.
2. Open Float Widget → Design → Header tab.
3. Turn on Search button.
4. Click Save.

The button appears in the top bar of every page.

Turn on sidebar search#

1. Open your docs site while signed in.
2. Open Float Widget → Design → Left Sidebar tab.
3. Turn on Search in sidebar.
4. Click Save.

The box appears above the navigation tree in the left panel.

Choose where the search box belongs#

Both placements can run at the same time. Enabling one is usually enough.

If your header already carries several links, use sidebar search instead of adding another control to the top bar.

What Docsbook search indexes#

Docsbook full-text search covers every markdown file the site publishes, and the index is rebuilt when your repository changes on GitHub. There is nothing to reindex by hand.

Search matches:

• Page titles
• Headings
• Body text
• Code blocks, ranked below prose

Keyword search runs against that index and never calls an AI model, so it does not draw on your project balance. Semantic search — matching by meaning rather than by keyword — does call a model, and is billed against the balance like any other AI usage.

Next steps#

• See what readers searched for — the queries that returned nothing tell you which page to write next.
• Content options — the other controls in the same Design panel.