Search bar usage with mkdocs

[nhan000]

Describe the bug

On Obsidian Mkdocs Publisher, search can't look for note title or content. Only search for Headings works.

How to reproduce ?

Use Snippets and tools - Obsidian Mkdocs Publisher as an example.

Search for title of the note "Snippets and tools" doesn't return the page

Search for content of the page "Automatically convert the" also doesn't return the page

Search for headings work

Also, what's the difference between the results that have and don't have this icon next to it?

Configuration

N/A

Relevant log output

No response

OS

Windows

Anything else?

No response

[Mara-Li]

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This bug is not a bug ?

• The text highlight when searching
• The mkdocs search one word independently.
• To search a complete part in the contents, you need to use "

To ask for the icons and relative of the usage of the searching plugins, please use the Material Mkdocs discussion

[nhan000]

Thanks for your reply. I probably just don't understand how the search work then. Even after adding " it didn't return any results. Even on the demo site – squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material

[Mara-Li]

Yeah, the search is a little strange here. Dunno how it search for title, filename and quote.
I think two things :

• By default, material mkdocs add the filename/title frontmatter in the document’s heading 1.
• But, the material search only search in CONTENTS, aka the other heading, maybe frontmatter title and file’s contents.

So searching a filename (and not the heading) using quote won’t work.

Edit : there is already an issue for this behavior on material mkdocs squidfunk/mkdocs-material#304