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fix(search): preserve word boundaries between block elements - #3861

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🔗 Linked issue

Resolves #3860

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📚 Description

The MDC parser drops newline-only text nodes between block siblings (@nuxtjs/mdc compiler), and extractTextFromAst joined children with ''. As a result, text from sibling block elements nested inside a top-level node was concatenated without whitespace:

Setting NameDescriptionapi_keyYour API authentication keytimeout_msRequest timeout…

Words at the start of a table cell (Description, api_key, Your, Request…) were therefore not matched by useSearchCollection / queryCollectionSearchSections. The same happened for list items, paragraphs in blockquotes and loose list items, nested MDC components/slots and raw <br>.

Fix: extractTextFromAst now inserts a single space when crossing a block-level boundary (tables, lists, p, pre, blockquote, headings, div, section, br, hr), and only when neither side already has whitespace.

  • Inline text is preserved exactly: foo**bar**baz, punctuation after inline code/links/emphasis, and CJK text are unchanged. A naive join(' ') would break these.
  • Nested blocks (e.g. table > tbody > tr > td > p) never produce repeated whitespace.
  • Existing whitespace (e.g. hard-break newlines, code blocks) is not modified.
  • Unknown/custom component tags are treated as inline; block content inside them is still separated through their inner blocks.

Tests

  • generateSearchSections: tables (hast and minimark bodies), lists (nested/loose), blockquotes, nested MDC components and slots, <br>/<hr>, nested block boundaries, ignored tags, plus inline-preservation cases for content and heading titles.
  • searchCollection: end-to-end test parsing the issue's markdown with the MDC parser, indexing it into a real SQLite FTS5 table, and querying the first word of table cells.

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The MDC parser drops newline-only text nodes between block siblings, so
extractTextFromAst concatenated table cells, list items, blockquote
paragraphs and nested component content without whitespace, making words
at the start of those blocks unsearchable in the FTS index.

Insert a single space when crossing a block boundary, only when neither
side already provides whitespace, so inline text is preserved exactly.

Fixes nuxt#3860
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Text extraction now restores spaces between text separated by block elements. Unit tests cover boundaries across tables, lists, paragraphs, and nested content. An in-memory SQLite integration test checks that searches for table terms return the table’s section.

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Search text may be altered on pages using inline elements missing from the allowlist. This is a narrow issue, so the change is otherwise low risk to merge.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving word boundaries between block elements in search extraction.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the bug, the fix, affected content types, and the associated tests. It is fully related to the changeset.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue [#3860] requires searchable word boundaries in Markdown table content. The PR updates extractTextFromAst to insert separators across non-inline structural boundaries. Tests cover table cells a…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The production change stays in the shared search extraction path for issue [#3860]. Tests for lists, blockquotes, nested components, slots, raw br and hr, ignored blocks, and inline text validate …
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- Line 195: Add common structural block tags such as article and figure to
BLOCK_TAGS so adjacent elements create text boundaries; add a regression test
confirming a search for “second” finds the second article when both are inside a
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- Around line 223-224: Update the ignored-tag check in the search traversal to
record whether the ignored node is a block before returning; determine its block
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- Around line 195-198: Add `img` and `ruby` to the `INLINE_TAGS` set used by
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LGTM, Thanks 👍

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farnabaz merged commit 05a3074 into nuxt:main Oct 1, 2026
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useSearchCollection ignore markdown table cell content

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