Configuring how content is indexed
You can control how your site is indexed by using various data-pagefind-* tags in your templates.
#Limiting what content is indexed
By default, Pagefind indexes all content inside your <body> element, with some exceptions — elements such as <nav>, <script>, and <form> will be skipped automatically.
To refine indexing further, you can tag your main content area with data-pagefind-body:
<body>
<main data-pagefind-body>
<h1>Condimentum Nullam</h1>
<p>Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies.</p>
</main>
<aside>
This content will not be indexed.
</aside>
</body>
If
data-pagefind-bodyis found anywhere on your site, any pages without this attribute will be removed from your index. This means that if you tag your blog post layout withdata-pagefind-body, other pages like your homepage will no longer appear in search results. This is usually what you want — if not, just adddata-pagefind-bodythere as well.
Note that metadata and filters that are set outside of this element will still be used. If this is not what you want, see the root selector configuration option.
#Removing individual elements from the index
If you have a component that you don’t want to include in your search index, you can tag it with data-pagefind-ignore:
<main data-pagefind-body>
<h1>Condimentum Nullam</h1>
<aside data-pagefind-ignore>
This content will not be indexed.
</aside>
<p>Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies.</p>
</main>
The data-pagefind-ignore attribute can optionally take a value of index or all. Omitting a value implies index, which will exclude the element and all children from the search index, but will still process filters and metadata within the element, and will still try to detect a default title or image found within this element.
Specifying all will exclude the element and its children from all processing.
<aside data-pagefind-ignore>
<h1>This might still be detected as the page title</h1>
<p data-pagefind-meta="a">This metadata will still appear in search results.</p>
</aside>
<aside data-pagefind-ignore="all">
<h1>This cannot be detected as the page title</h1>
<p data-pagefind-meta="b">This metadata will not be processed.</p>
</aside>
To remove elements without changing your templating, see the exclude selectors CLI option.
#Indexing attributes
Attributes of HTML elements can be added to the main search index with the data-pagefind-index-attrs attribute:
<h1>Condimentum Nullam</h1>
<img src="/hero.png"
title="Image Title"
alt="Image Alt"
data-pagefind-index-attrs="title,alt" />
<p>Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies.</p>
This will be indexed as: Condimentum Nullam. Image Title. Image Alt. Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies.