diff --git a/components/com_fabrik/views/list/view.tags.php b/components/com_fabrik/views/list/view.tags.php
index 1618d016a00..df8e0be8fe9 100644
--- a/components/com_fabrik/views/list/view.tags.php
+++ b/components/com_fabrik/views/list/view.tags.php
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ public function display($tpl = null)
 					$data = $elementModel->allTagsJSON($elId);
 					foreach($data as $d)
 					{
-						if (stristr($d->text, $input->get('like')))
+						if (stristr($d->text, $input->get('like','','STRING')))
 						{
 							$tagdata[] = $d; 
 						}