diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/search_autocomplete.js b/app/assets/javascripts/search_autocomplete.js
index 6445a8018c2a4c4fb3cdd661d5fa21851070cab1..9c59108f2ab85e5ff2ee11bb9f40ca59983563d8 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/search_autocomplete.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/search_autocomplete.js
@@ -368,39 +368,38 @@
   })();
 
   $(function() {
-    if ($('.js-search-project-options').length) {
-      var projectOptionsDataEl = $('.js-search-project-options');
+    var $projectOptionsDataEl = $('.js-search-project-options');
+    var $groupOptionsDataEl = $('.js-search-group-options');
+    var $dashboardOptionsDataEl = $('.js-search-dashboard-options');
 
+    if ($projectOptionsDataEl.length) {
       gl.projectOptions = gl.projectOptions || {};
 
-      var projectPath = projectOptionsDataEl.data('project-path');
+      var projectPath = $projectOptionsDataEl.data('project-path');
 
       gl.projectOptions[projectPath] = {
-        name: projectOptionsDataEl.data('name'),
-        issuesPath: projectOptionsDataEl.data('issues-path'),
-        mrPath: projectOptionsDataEl.data('mr-path')
+        name: $projectOptionsDataEl.data('name'),
+        issuesPath: $projectOptionsDataEl.data('issues-path'),
+        mrPath: $projectOptionsDataEl.data('mr-path')
       };
     }
- 
-    if ($('.js-search-group-options').length) {
-      var groupOptionsDataEl = $('.js-search-group-options');
-   
+
+    if ($groupOptionsDataEl.length) {
       gl.groupOptions = gl.groupOptions || {};
        
-      var groupPath = groupOptionsDataEl.data('group-path');
+      var groupPath = $groupOptionsDataEl.data('group-path');
    
       gl.groupOptions[groupPath] = {
-        name: groupOptionsDataEl.data('name'),
-        issuesPath: groupOptionsDataEl.data('issues-path'),
-        mrPath: groupOptionsDataEl.data('mr-path')
+        name: $groupOptionsDataEl.data('name'),
+        issuesPath: $groupOptionsDataEl.data('issues-path'),
+        mrPath: $groupOptionsDataEl.data('mr-path')
       };
     }
    
-    if ($('.js-search-dashboard-options').length) {
-      var dashboardOptionsDataEl = $('.js-search-dashboard-options');
+    if ($dashboardOptionsDataEl.length) {
       gl.dashboardOptions = {
-        issuesPath: dashboardOptionsDataEl.data('issues-path'),
-        mrPath: dashboardOptionsDataEl.data('mr-path')
+        issuesPath: $dashboardOptionsDataEl.data('issues-path'),
+        mrPath: $dashboardOptionsDataEl.data('mr-path')
       };
     }
   });
diff --git a/app/views/layouts/_search.html.haml b/app/views/layouts/_search.html.haml
index ff4aac0092d6a715a8b101a37050ac410602ccd0..d7386105b7d7cc570994f26317811250c6fd5d89 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/_search.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/layouts/_search.html.haml
@@ -3,10 +3,9 @@
 - if controller.controller_path =~ /^projects/ && @project.persisted?
   - label = 'This project'
 - if @group && @group.persisted? && @group.path
-  - group_data_attrs = { group_path: "#{j(@group.path)}", name: "#{j(@group.name)}", issues_path: "#{issues_group_path(j(@group.path))}", mr_path: "#{merge_requests_group_path(j(@group.path))}" }
+  - group_data_attrs = { group_path: j(@group.path), name: @group.name, issues_path: issues_group_path(j(@group.path)), mr_path: merge_requests_group_path(j(@group.path)) }
 - if @project && @project.persisted?
-  - project_data_attrs = { project_path: "#{j(@project.path)}", name: "#{j(@project.name)}", issues_path: "#{namespace_project_issues_path(@project.namespace, @project)}", mr_path: "#{namespace_project_merge_requests_path(@project.namespace, @project)}" }
-
+  - project_data_attrs = { project_path: j(@project.path), name: j(@project.name), issues_path: namespace_project_issues_path(@project.namespace, @project), mr_path: namespace_project_merge_requests_path(@project.namespace, @project) }
 .search.search-form{class: "#{'has-location-badge' if label.present?}"}
   = form_tag search_path, method: :get, class: 'navbar-form' do |f|
     .search-input-container
@@ -14,7 +13,7 @@
         .location-badge= label
       .search-input-wrap
         .dropdown{ data: { url: search_autocomplete_path } }
-          = search_field_tag "search", nil, placeholder: 'Search', class: "search-input dropdown-menu-toggle js-search-dashboard-options", spellcheck: false, tabindex: "1", autocomplete: 'off', data: { toggle: 'dropdown', issues_path: "#{issues_dashboard_url}", mr_path: "#{merge_requests_dashboard_url}" }
+          = search_field_tag 'search', nil, placeholder: 'Search', class: 'search-input dropdown-menu-toggle js-search-dashboard-options', spellcheck: false, tabindex: '1', autocomplete: 'off', data: { toggle: 'dropdown', issues_path: issues_dashboard_url, mr_path: merge_requests_dashboard_url }
           .dropdown-menu.dropdown-select
             = dropdown_content do
               %ul