Making the Site Searchable
User Guide → Making the Site SearchableMarkBind comes with an in-built site search facility with the option to use third-party search services as well.
All markdown and html headings of levels 1-3 are captured in the search index by default. You can change this setting using the headingIndexLevel property of the site.json.
If you do not wish to use MarkBind's searchbar (e.g. you have an external service provider), it may be helpful to include the option enableSearch: false in your site.json. This stops MarkBind from indexing search headings and speeds up building.
You can add a search bar component to your website to allow users to search the site.
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You can also specify additional keywords to be indexed under a heading by tagging the words with the keyword class. Those keywords will be linked to the heading immediately above it. If you want to index a keyword without rendering it in the page, add d-none as a class.
Example
#### Developer Testing
<span class="keyword d-none">regress</span>
<span class="keyword d-none">regression testing</span>
This is good for catching <span class="keyword">regressions</span>.
Developer Testing
This is good for catching regressions.
You can also set additional keywords to be indexed for an entire page using the keywords attribute inside the <frontmatter> of that page.
Example
<frontmatter>
keywords: regress, regression testing, regressions
</frontmatter>
...
<span class="keyword d-none">regress</span>
You can specify headings which are to be included or excluded from the index built by MarkBind's built-in search feature using the .always-index or .no-index classes.
If you wish to index a specific heading outside the specified headingIndexLevel, you may add the .always-index attribute to the heading. Similarly, if you wish for a specific heading inside the specified headingIndexLevel not to be indexed, you may add the .no-index attribute to the heading.
Example
###### Heading outside heading index level that will be indexed {.always-index}
# Heading inside heading index level that will not be indexed {.no-index}
Equivalently,
<h6 class="always-index"> Heading outside heading index level that will be indexed </h6>
<h1 class="no-index"> Heading inside heading index level that will not be indexed </h1>
MarkBind sites can use Algolia Doc Search services easily via the Algolia plugin. Unlike the built-in search, Algolia provides full-text search. See the panel below for more info.