Results Box displays "Nothing matches your search" even before executing a search

Question

I am configuring a results box for only a portion of my SharePoint 2013 site. Initially I came across the problem that the results box would display results even before any searches were executed. I've fixed that, but now the results box is displaying Nothing here matches your search even before a user searches for anything. Is there a way to disable this or change to a different text? My users will be confused if they see that message without even searching for anything.

Answer 1

I think that this might push you in the right direction. Please find below links and let me know if this fixes issue.

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nicolasu/archive/2013/07/04/sp2013-removing-the-quot-nothing-here-matches-your-search-quot-for-good.aspx

Not sure if you were using a web part but here's another one that might help with the issue.

• https://prasadpathak.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/sharepoint-2013-remove-nothing-here-matches-your-search-from-search-results-web-part/

Answer 2

In most cases I want the error/warning and sometimes i don't so i simply include some simple css on the page where i don't want it. Not generally a good practice but sometimes it suffices.

#NoResult { 
  display: none; 
}