Since upgrade to Confluence 8.5 LiveSearch placeholder stopped working.

[Pascal Lisot]

Hi all concerning the LiveSearch Macro

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We noticed that the placeholder text is no more displayed since we upgraded from 7.19 to 8.5

Is this a know issue?

Thanks in advance for your help on this.

With kind regards,

Pascal

[Jörn Donneau]

Hello, we have the exact same answer, also reproducable in 8.6.2. I raised a support issue with Atlassian.

Cheers

[Pascal Lisot]

Hi @Jörn Donneau 

We also warned Atlassian but no answer so far.
There's no trace in the log files whatsoever.

In the mean time we used a temporary (quick and dirty) JavaScript at page level to add the missing placeholder attribute.

Keep me posted if you have some news.
Have a nice day,

Cheers

[Matthias Jupe]

Hi @Pascal Lisot

Is it possible to share your preliminary (quick and dirty) JavaScript snippet?

For everyone else, this looks like the official bug issue from Atlassian:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-91576

Greetings,
Matthias

[Pascal Lisot]

Hi @Matthias Jupe 

Firstly you need to Copy the JavaScript path from the html inspect properties of you input. 

You'll get something like this: 

#main-content > div > div:nth-child(2) > div > div > div > form > fieldset > div > input

Then you need to add at page level an html macro where you can add your JavaScript to set the missing placeholder attribute. 

<script>
// added by lisotpa to bypass placeholder issue in confluence 8.5
document.querySelector("

#main-content > div > div:nth-child(2) > div > div > div > form > fieldset > div > input

").setAttribute('placeholder', 'Search by keywords');
</script>

Hope this will help.
Cheers,

Pascal

[Ekran]

Hello, we are having the same problem with the livesearch macro. After upgrading from 7.19.12 to 8.5.x. I have gone through the atlassian-confluence.log file, but I can't find anything that indicates that anything is wrong. The live search macro is set up restricted to @self, restrict labels: none, size: large, placeholder text: "This is a test" Content type: page, additional information: "Space name"

I have tested the page/space using the Brave browser and Firefox, both fail. Operating system: Red hat Enterprise Linux 9.

[Pascal Lisot]

Hi @Ekran ,

Any fix so far?

Thx,

Cheers

[Bert van Dijk _TMC_nl_]

Hi @Pascal Lisot ,

The question is hard to answer. Would it be possible to share the atlassian-confluence.log from your Confluence home-dir?

If you have an active license, you also can contact support.atlassian.com with this.

[Pascal Lisot]

Hi Bert,

Thanks for your advice we will check our log and contact Atlassian support Team.

Cheers,

Pascal