cecil / theme-flexsearch

1.2.0 2026-10-20 02:18 UTC

Requires

• cecil/theme-installer: ^1.4||^2.0

MIT

• theme
• search
• cecil
• FlexSearch

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-10-20 02:19 UTC

README

The FlexSearch component theme for Cecil adds a client side full-text search to a website, powered by FlexSearch: a search index generated at build time and a DocSearch-like modal.

Demo

Features

• No service: the index is a static JSON file, generated at build time (one per language)
• DocSearch-like modal: Ctrl/⌘ + K shortcut, keyboard navigation, fullscreen on mobile (with an icon-only trigger)
• Results grouped by section, each section being ranked and limited on its own
• Split pages: one record per <h2>/<h3> heading, linked to its anchor
• Highlighting of the matched terms, and fuzzy matching when nothing matches strictly
• Recent searches: the last selected results, stored in the browser
• Lazy loading: the library and the index are loaded on first use
• Customizable styles (CSS custom properties) with light and dark modes
• Translatable (English and French included)

Installation

composer require cecil/theme-flexsearch

Or download the latest archive and uncompress its contents in themes/flexsearch.

Usage

Add flexsearch in the theme section of the config.yml:

theme:
  - flexsearch

Add the stylesheet in the HTML <head> of the main template:

{{ html(asset('flexsearch/flexsearch.css')) }}

Tip

The stylesheet can also be bundled with your own: asset(['css/styles.css', 'flexsearch/flexsearch.css']).

Add the search box (trigger button and modal) where the button should be displayed, for example in the header:

{{ include('partials/flexsearch.html.twig') }}

The trigger button and the modal can also be included separately:

{# in the header #}
{{ include('partials/flexsearch/trigger.html.twig') }}
{# before </body> #}
{{ include('partials/flexsearch/dialog.html.twig') }}

The trigger variable overrides the flexsearch.trigger option for one button, for example a large search box on the home page:

{{ include('partials/flexsearch/trigger.html.twig', {trigger: 'full'}) }}

Any element with a data-flexsearch-open attribute opens the modal:

<a href="#" data-flexsearch-open>Search</a>

Configuration

The indexed sections are listed under flexsearch.sections, in the order of the result groups. By default, every root section of the website is indexed.

flexsearch:
  sections:
    docs:
      limit: 5 # maximum number of results in the group
    blog:
      title: Posts # title of the group
      limit: 3
      split: false # one record per post, not one per heading
      date: true # show the date of the post in the search results

Section options:

Option	Default	Description
title	title of the section page	title of the group of results
limit	5	maximum number of results displayed in the group
split	true	one record per <h2>/<h3> heading, or a single record per page
date	false	add the page date to its records (displayed instead of the breadcrumb)
length	1000	maximum length of the indexed text of an unsplit page

Search options (default values):

flexsearch:
  enabled: true # display the search box
  version: '0.8.212' # FlexSearch library version, loaded from jsDelivr
  library: '' # URL of the FlexSearch library (overrides `version`)
  trigger: auto # trigger button: auto (icon only on mobile), icon (always icon only) or full (always with label)
  hotkey: k # Ctrl/⌘ + hotkey opens the search box (false to disable)
  credit: true # display the "Search by FlexSearch" credit
  tokenize: forward # strict, forward, reverse or full
  encoder: Normalize # FlexSearch.Charset: Exact, Default, Normalize, LatinBalance, LatinAdvanced, LatinExtra, LatinSoundex…
  fields: # indexed fields and their resolution (weight, from 1 to 9; 0 to not index the field)
    title: 9
    page: 7
    description: 5
    content: 3
  suggest: true # fall back to fuzzy matching when nothing matches strictly
  min_length: 1 # minimum length of the query to start searching
  delay: 120 # delay (ms) after typing before searching
  boundary: 160 # maximum length of a highlighted snippet
  snippet: 180 # maximum length of a non highlighted snippet
  recent: 5 # maximum number of recent searches (selected results) stored in the browser (0 to disable)

Note

The FlexSearch library is downloaded from jsDelivr at build time, and published with the website.

Recent searches are the last selected results, stored in the browser's localStorage (one list per language) and displayed in a "Recent" group while the query is empty.

Index

The index is published at /flexsearch.json (and /<language>/flexsearch.json for other languages). For each section:

• the root page of the section is skipped, pages of its sub-sections are included
• split pages are cut on their <h2> and <h3> headings, and their introduction is indexed under the page title
• anchors are read from the id attribute of the headings
• pages excluded from lists (exclude: true) are not indexed

Styles

Colors and sizes are defined as CSS custom properties, with light and dark defaults. The dark mode follows the system preference, unless the root element has a data-theme attribute (as set by Cecil's theme selector) or a dark/light class.

Override them in your own stylesheet:

:root {
  --flexsearch-accent: #163c56;
  --flexsearch-selected-bg: #f2d07f;
}
:root.dark {
  --flexsearch-accent: #f2d07f;
}

Property	Usage
--flexsearch-color	text
--flexsearch-bg	modal background
--flexsearch-heading-color	input and results titles
--flexsearch-muted	status, breadcrumb, snippet, footer
--flexsearch-subtle	icons and placeholder
--flexsearch-border	trigger button and modal borders
--flexsearch-divider	separators inside the modal
--flexsearch-surface	keys and group titles background
--flexsearch-surface-color	keys and group titles text
--flexsearch-surface-border	keys border
--flexsearch-accent	hover border, group title border
--flexsearch-mark-color	highlighted terms
--flexsearch-selected-bg	selected result background
--flexsearch-selected-color	selected result text
--flexsearch-backdrop	modal backdrop
--flexsearch-radius	modal border radius
--flexsearch-width	modal maximum width
--flexsearch-trigger-width	trigger button width

All elements have a flexsearch-* class, so the styles can also be fully replaced.

Internationalization

The theme is translated in English and French. Extract the strings to translate in another language with:

cecil util:translations:extract --locale=<locale> --save --theme=flexsearch

License

FlexSearch component theme is a free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license.

FlexSearch © Thomas Wilkerling, released under the Apache 2.0 license.