Invalid website.search Value

A website.search option has a value of the wrong type or outside its allowed values. The default is used instead.

Q-5-39 — Invalid website.search Value

A website.search option has a value of the wrong type or outside its allowed values. The default is used instead.

What this means

Each website.search option takes a specific kind of value. When a value does not fit, Quarto warns and renders with that option’s default, so a configuration mistake never breaks the render.

# _quarto.yml
website:
  search:
    location: footer      # Q-5-39: must be `navbar` or `sidebar`
    limit: -3             # Q-5-39: must be a positive integer

Expected values:

Option	Accepts
location	navbar or sidebar
type	overlay or textbox
limit	a positive integer
collapse-after	a positive integer, or false
copy-button, merge-navbar-crumbs	true or false
keyboard-shortcut	a key, or a list of keys
show-item-context	tree, parent, root, true, or false
federate	a list of site URLs or maps with a url
federate[].weight	a positive number
algolia	a map of Algolia settings

A federate entry without a url is reported with this code and skipped.

How to fix it

Change the value to one of the accepted forms listed above.