Simple-Jekyll-Search | JavaScript library to add search functionality | Theme library

I am trying to incorporate a search function into my Jekyll site. I therefor decided to go with with Simple-Jekyll-Search which can be found here: Link.

This is what my search.html looks like:

I'm using Jekyll and have a custom folder called docs with this structure:

The folder is organized as nested categories, but from what I understand from this pull request I can only have one extra level if I use collections_dir like this:

I am using the Simple-Jekyll-Search library for a website I am currently building.

I want to have a feature where a user can click on a button (imagine tag or category buttons beneath the text input), and that automatically populates the search box with the corresponding tag name, and performs the search.

I have managed to achieve the first part of it by simply setting the search input's value to my desired text, and then I tried to trigger a various key events but unfortunately this doesn't seem to trigger the search. Of course, the search box works normally and results do appear when I type into it manually.

Looking at the library's source file, this seems to be the relevant part to trigger the search, but as far as I can see, I should just need to send a keyup event to the search input to trigger the search.