diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9372c61a..fcfac0f0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # Unreleased: pdoc next
 
  - Fix some search misses by disabling the word stemmer.
+ - Fix a bug where the search bar on the index page did not work if only a single module was documented.
 
 # 2021-12-28: pdoc 8.1.0
 
diff --git a/pdoc/templates/default/index.html.jinja2 b/pdoc/templates/default/index.html.jinja2
index 2cbafabe..c2759bd0 100644
--- a/pdoc/templates/default/index.html.jinja2
+++ b/pdoc/templates/default/index.html.jinja2
@@ -53,3 +53,8 @@
 {% endblock %}
 {% block module_info %}{% endblock %}
 {% block module_contents %}{% endblock %}
+{% block search_js %}
+    {% if search %}
+        {% include "search.html.jinja2" %}
+    {% endif %}
+{% endblock %}