---
title: "Autosuggest"
manual: "Apache Solr for TYPO3"
version: "12.1"
source: "Frontend/Autosuggest.rst"
modified: "2026-09-16T15:14:12+00:00"
---

# Autosuggest

A user of the search typically want to find the results a fast as possible. To support the user and avoid to much typing
solr can create a drop down list of common suggested search terms right after the search input box.

This feature can be easily configured with the following TypoScript setting:

```typoscript
plugin.tx_solr {
    suggest = 1
    suggest {
        numberOfSuggestions = 10
        suggestField = spell
    }
}
```

Beside the server related part EXT:solr ships the jQuery autocomplete implementation to show the suggest results.

The suggest implementation uses the devbridge/jQuery-Autocomplete library([https://github.com/devbridge/jQuery-Autocomplete](https://github.com/devbridge/jQuery-Autocomplete)) to render the autocomplete.

If you want to configure an the autosuggest by example, you can include the TypoScript example template **"(Example) Suggest/autocomplete with jquery"**.

When everything is configured the frontend will show you a drop down of suggestions when you are typing in the search field:

![](../Images/Frontend/Autosuggest/autosuggest.png)

Beside search term suggestions the autocomplete an also show you the top search results for the user input.

This feature can be enabled with:

```typoscript
plugin.tx_solr.suggest.showTopResults = 1
```

If you want to change the number of proposed top results you can also configure them:

```typoscript
plugin.tx_solr.suggest.numberOfTopResults = 5
```