diff --git a/js/src/common/Translator.ts b/js/src/common/Translator.ts
index 79d54deb5..92f1714a6 100644
--- a/js/src/common/Translator.ts
+++ b/js/src/common/Translator.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import extract from './utils/extract';
 import username from './helpers/username';
+import extractText from "./utils/extractText";
 
 type Translations = { [key: string]: string };
 
@@ -33,6 +34,10 @@ export default class Translator {
         return id;
     }
 
+    transText(id: string, parameters = null) {
+      return extractText(this.trans(id, parameters));
+    }
+
     apply(translation: string, input: any) {
         if ('user' in input) {
             const user = extract(input, 'user');
diff --git a/js/src/forum/components/Search.tsx b/js/src/forum/components/Search.tsx
index 837162219..b0d621651 100644
--- a/js/src/forum/components/Search.tsx
+++ b/js/src/forum/components/Search.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import Component from '../../common/Component';
 import LoadingIndicator from '../../common/components/LoadingIndicator';
 import ItemList from '../../common/utils/ItemList';
-import extractText from '../../common/utils/extractText';
 import KeyboardNavigatable from '../utils/KeyboardNavigatable';
 import icon from '../../common/helpers/icon';
 import DiscussionsSearchSource from './DiscussionsSearchSource';
@@ -85,7 +84,7 @@ export default class Search extends Component {
         <div className="Search-input">
           <input className="FormControl"
                  type="search"
-                 placeholder={extractText(app.translator.trans('core.forum.header.search_placeholder'))}
+                 placeholder={app.translator.transText('core.forum.header.search_placeholder')}
                  value={this.value()}
                  oninput={m.withAttr('value', this.value)}
                  onfocus={() => this.hasFocus = true}