Search Box Not Always Rendering

[Agrajag]

I started noticing in GTMetrix that sometimes the home page would show with the search box not doing the right thing. It would show up as the default box with a Search button next to it.

I’m now getting e-mails from readers asking why our search box is so bad and when when write back, they clarify that they too are seeing the non-Ajax’ed search box. I can replicate this by simply logging off my own site.

What am I doing wrong? We do have caching on the site for images (maxCDN) and the site, CloudFlare, as well as W3TC.

[Agrajag]

We tried the following in CSS to fix it and, so far it seems to impact it:

display: none on the search-form class.

Would that sound like it ties into the issue we’re seeing?

Thanks.

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi!

I can see the old search form HTML code in the header. You either remove it from the code, or use that custom CSS code of display: none – both solutions will work.
That seems like is/was causing the issue.

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