RandyMoser

Ok, Paul2009's article about this issue helped me understand why this is happening. For future generations, the work around appears... to work:
 

I had tried various forms of this when I first hit this snag, but this one actually works.

Site URL: https://www.harborcarenh.org/

Hi folks,

Longtime fan, first-time caller here. I inherited responsibilities for a Squarespace website and am much more familiar with Joomla, WordPress and Drupal, but I've found this forum a huge help.

The native Squarespace search engine on this website doesn't work well. I suspect this is due to the architecture of the website -- with LONG index pages containing many other pages, the end result being that the core is somehow confused -- but I thought a workaround would be to install a Google Programmable Search on the site. I've always found that using Google products improves search results, but that may be voodoo.

Unfortunately, I can add the code for this search bar to inside pages (and they load fine), but whenever I bring those pages to the primary navigation or footer position, the system loads a page without the search. Again, this is a guess, but I believe this is an AJAX loading issue conflicting with the Google script. This is what the Google code looks like:

<script async src="https://cse.google.com/cse.js?cx=93d5adf5b23ee11a5"></script>
<div class="gcse-search"></div>

Has anyone experienced this issue? Or can anyone suggest why the Squarespace search engine is fairly inept?

Thanks,

Randy