Choose "medium" or "large" depending on your sidebar width.
To add a search function to the sidebar in Confluence, follow these steps:
For teams that need more advanced functionality—such as searching across multiple specific spaces or filtering by labels directly from the sidebar—the Atlassian Marketplace offers several robust options. confluence add search to sidebar
If you are looking for an actual embedded physically inside the sidebar, you are hitting the limits of Confluence Cloud's native settings. Confluence Cloud does not currently allow you to inject HTML forms into the sidebar natively due to security sandboxing.
After enabling, users will see:
Eliminates the need to move the mouse to the top header for every query.
This app allows you to completely overhaul the Confluence UI, making it easy to drag and drop search modules into sidebars. Choose "medium" or "large" depending on your sidebar width
So, how do you bring the search functionality down into the sidebar where it belongs?