How to Enable Solr Search Autocomplete in Drupal 9

Enabling autocomplete will only take you a few minutes.

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In this article, I’ll explain how to enable autocomplete for Solr search in Drupal 9. I will assume you’ve already configured Solr and enabled the module Search API Solr.

First, add the module Search API Autocomplete using Composer:

composer require drupal/search_api_autocomplete

Then enable it:

drush en search_api_autocomplete -y

Go to /admin/config/search/search-api:

In operations, in your index, click Autocomplete.

Select the checkbox of your search view:

And that’s it. From now on, when you add a search box to a page it will use auto-complete when you start typing.

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