3

In the "normal" (full site) view of the Stack Exchange websites, the search field is pre-populated from the current context. E.g. the search field on https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet is pre-populated with "user:22656", and the search field on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%2b%2b is pre-populated with "[c++]".

In the "mobile" view (for browsers on mobile devices), the search field is not pre-populated anymore:

enter image description here

(You can easily verify that by clicking on the "mobile" link at the bottom of any page.)

I am quite sure that in previous versions of the "mobile" view, the search field was pre-populated in the same way as it is in the "full site" view.

Is there a particular reason for this change? Could that feature be added again? I found it very convenient, e.g. when searching for an answer of a particular user.

Improve this question
0

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
3
+50

Whoops. We were trying to still populate the search box, but we were looking in the wrong place for the search terms.

Will be fixed in the next build.

Improve this answer

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .