Search component

About

The vf-search component is a form component that can be used for for the front-end to search your site.

Usage

Responsive Search

This is the default search component that can be used to search your site. When the viewport size is below 600px the vf-button replaces the text with an icon so that it can allow the input to use more space.

Mini Search

This is very much a work-in-progress prototype and not to be used.

Search Container

To be used when searching pages, this container should sit below the vf-hero (and related vf-navigation where applicable). The code example shows that the vf-form is wrapped in a vf-container (this sectioning component has not been created, yet, but the base CSS is available as part of vf-search).

Results

This shows how auto-suggest or autocomplete results should be displayed. There is no native HTML functionality for this and you will need to provide the JavaScript that is relevant to your project for it to work.

note: Version 2.0.0 of the vf-search has no maximum width and will fill the space of it's parent. Because of this it is recommended to make sure the component is not too wide by wrapping it in the embl-grid with the --centered-content variant. If you wish to use ths vf-search with vf-grid you will need to make use the vf-search component also has an appropraite .vf-u-grid__col--span class.

You can enable autofocus on the search element, but should only do so if most users intend to search on the page.

Install

This repository is distributed with npm. After installing npm and yarn, you can install with this command.

$ yarn add --dev @visual-framework/vf-search

Sass/CSS

The style files included are written in Sass. If you're using a VF-core project, you can import it like this:

@import "@visual-framework/vf-search/index.scss";

Make sure you import Sass requirements along with the modules. You can use a project boilerplate or the vf-sass-starter

Help

• Read the Visual Framework troubleshooting
• Open a ticket
• Chat on Slack