View source for Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources/Search

This page shows how to set up a search box that searches individual sources in Perennial sources. It currently searches exclusively for subpages of Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources/all. 

The default search uses exact word match for title words, so {{kbd|Daily}} finds 'Daily Mail', 'China Daily' and many others, but {{kbd|Dail}} finds no results. Adding trailing asterisk ({{thinspace}}<big>*</big>{{thinspace}}) causes full text match, so that {{kbd|Dail*}} finds all of the ones from 'Daily', but also finds 'Breitbart News', because the table row has the word 'Daily' in it.

'''Note:''' The input box, documented at [[mw:Extension:InputBox]], appears to draw its dropdown suggestions only from mainspace, even though the search is carried out exclusively in project space, under the prefix given above. This might be a bug; for now, please ignore dropdown suggestions. The [[HTML form]] element &lt;input> takes the attribute {{para|autcomplete|off}} to disable the dropdown, but the mw extension does not appear to support it.

As of 20 September, the input box below searches only perennial sources '''starting with letters B, C, or D''' (including some with leading ''The'', as in "The Conversation"). 

<templatestyles src="Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources/styles.css" />
<onlyinclude>
<div class="search">
  <div class="search-top">Search for perennial sources:</div>
  <div class="search-sub">ignore suggestions below, and use the search button instead</div>
  <div class="search-box" id="search-box">
    <inputbox>
     type=fulltext
     break=yes
     arialabel=search perennial sources
     searchbuttonlabel=Search
     namespaces=Wikipedia
     prefix=Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources/all/
     placeholder=Try: Daily, or Cent*  (don't omit the asterisk; and ignore suggestions)
    </inputbox>
  </div>
  <div class="search-foot">(This mock-up searches for sources starting with 'B', 'C', or 'D'.)
  </div>
</div>
</onlyinclude>