Enhanced Search Functionality for Reference Pages

Summary

Implemented a unified search functionality across reference pages, providing consistent behavior and styling for improved content discoverability.

Why Care

This enhancement improves content discoverability across the reference section by providing users with a consistent and intuitive search experience. The implementation ensures that users can quickly find relevant vocabulary terms and concepts across all reference pages.

Implementation

Changes Made

  • Enhanced SearchInput component with improved selector logic
    • File: src/components/reference/SearchInput.astro
    • Updated search selector to handle both attribute-only and value-based data-searchable elements
    • Added support for title and description-specific element searching
  • Modified reference pages for consistency
    • Files:
      text 
      src/pages/more-about/
├── vocabulary.astro
├── concepts.astro
└── index.astro
    • Updated data-searchable attributes to use explicit "true" value
    • Maintained consistent search behavior across all reference pages

Technical Details

  • Search Implementation:
    typescript 
    // SearchInput.astro
const items = document.querySelectorAll('[data-searchable]:not([data-searchable="false"])');
    This selector matches both presence-only and value-based data-searchable attributes while explicitly excluding false values.

Integration Points

  • SearchInput component is now used in:
    • Reference pages (vocabulary, concepts, index)
  • Component styling matches the site's dark theme
  • Search behavior is consistent across all implementations

Documentation

  • SearchInput Integration:
    • Use data-searchable="true" on elements that should be searchable
    • Search looks for content in elements with data-title and data-description attributes
    • Falls back to full text content if specific elements aren't found