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feat: activate search input from keyboard
miketheman Jun 25, 2026
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Merge branch 'master' into keyboard-search
miketheman Jun 26, 2026
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Merge branch 'master' into keyboard-search
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18 changes: 18 additions & 0 deletions gcp/website/frontend3/src/search.js
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Expand Up @@ -58,9 +58,27 @@ export class ExpandableSearch {
handleDocumentKeydown(e) {
if (e.key === 'Escape' && this.isSearchActive()) {
this.closeSearch();
return;
}

// Press "/" to jump to the search box, unless already typing in a field.
if (e.key === '/' && !e.ctrlKey && !e.metaKey && !e.altKey &&
!this.isTypingContext(e.target)) {
e.preventDefault();
this.openSearch();
}
}

isTypingContext(target) {
if (!target) return false;
if (target.isContentEditable) return true;
// Native form fields, and Material web text fields whose focus retargets to
// the custom element host (e.g. md-filled-text-field, md-textfield-with-*).
const tag = target.tagName ? target.tagName.toLowerCase() : '';
return tag === 'input' || tag === 'textarea' || tag === 'select' ||
tag.includes('textfield') || tag.includes('text-field');
}

initializeSearch() {
const searchContainer = document.querySelector('.search-container-nav');
if (!searchContainer) {
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