1610483 - Searching specific sections/APIs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: API, enhancement)

Description

[Victor Zamanian]

What problem would this feature solve?

I'd like to quickly narrow down a search to specific sections of the MDN site, like only all CSS properties, or only all JavaScript APIs (separately). This would help narrow down and make searching more exact, which today tends to be a little too loose when it matches results to my query, in my opinion.

Who has this problem?

I suppose all people would like to search more efficiently (whether knowingly or not).

How do you know that the users identified above have this problem?

If they are like me, and use the site like me, I assume they also have this issue.

How are the users identified above solving this problem now?

Sifting through search results.

Do you have any suggestions for solving the problem? Please explain in detail.

Being able to select a section or topic within the documentation, like "JavaScript" or "CSS" or similar topics.

Is there anything else we should know?

You're the best.

Comment 1

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

You can, on the Wiki E.g. https://wiki.developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=string&topic=css
It's "topic", not "section" but it's almost the same.

Unfortunately, due to lack of time, we don't have that functionality on the read-only part of the site. E.g https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=string
There, it's using the default topics that are visible when you don't specify "topics" on the Wiki. E.g. https://wiki.developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=string (see checked checkboxes on the right)

You might want to subscribe to: https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/5754

Comment 2

[Victor Zamanian]

(In reply to Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe] from comment #1)

Unfortunately, due to lack of time, we don't have that functionality on the read-only part of the site. E.g https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=string

Understandable. But I remember this used to be a feature on the site as far as I remember? Was it removed for some reason?

You might want to subscribe to: https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/5754

Thanks! I'll sub to that. :-)

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.