{"id":940,"date":"2020-04-13T10:38:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T10:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/13\/remove-search-from-header-in-magento-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T13:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:04:12","slug":"remove-search-from-header-in-magento-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/remove-search-from-header-in-magento-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Remove Search From Header In Magento 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main idea was to not distract the users on the checkout page who are on the verge of conversion. Sometimes your Magento 2 store may not need the search feature and the search form in your Magento 2 theme may interfere with the user experience and be a conversion killer in such a case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I also implemented the programmatic method to <em><strong>remove search from header in Magento 2<\/strong><\/em>. Likewise you can also <a href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/remove-menu-from-header-in-magento-2\/\">remove menu from header in Magento 2<\/a> as a result to speed up your conversion process at the checkout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, if you want to temporarily remove the search box from header in Magento 2 store to restrict the orders due to stock unavailability or crisis, the below method can be useful:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Method to remove search from header in Magento 2:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Add this code into XML where you want to remove the header:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example remove from all the page then add to default.xml<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>app\/code\/[Vendor]\/[Module]\/frontend\/layout\/default.xml<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">&lt;?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n&lt;page xmlns:xsi=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2001\/XMLSchema-instance\" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=\"urn:magento:framework:View\/Layout\/etc\/page_configuration.xsd\">\n\n    &lt;body>\n        &lt;referenceContainer name=\"header.container\">\n            &lt;referenceBlock name=\"top.search\" remove=\"true\"\/>\n        &lt;\/referenceContainer>\n    &lt;\/body>\n&lt;\/page><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to remove any specific page, for example, order success page then add this code to checkout_onepage_success.xml<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>app\/code\/[Vendor]\/[Module]\/frontend\/layout\/checkout_onepage_success.xml<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">&lt;?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n&lt;page xmlns:xsi=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2001\/XMLSchema-instance\" layout=\"1column\" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=\"urn:magento:framework:View\/Layout\/etc\/page_configuration.xsd\">\n&lt;body>\n    &lt;referenceContainer name=\"header.container\">\n        &lt;referenceBlock name=\"top.search\" remove=\"true\"\/>\n    &lt;\/referenceContainer>\n&lt;\/body>\n&lt;\/page><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please share the post with fellow Magento developers via social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main idea was to not distract the users on the checkout page who are on the verge of conversion. 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