Backend and Infrastructure

Add Autocomplete to Search for Drupal 8, 9, and 10

Autocomplete provides a brief and quick list of results to the user while typing. While this functionality isn’t available out of the box, it’s easy to add using an additional contributed module, Search API Autocomplete.

In this tutorial, we'll:

  • Describe how to add autocomplete functionality to an existing index

By the end of this tutorial you should be able to add an autocomplete feature to the search query text field.