Quarto Book: Highlighting of search results disappears nearly immediately

[meierluk]

Bug description

When using the search bar in the Quarto book template, correct results are being shown. However, when clicking on a result, leading to the corresponding chapter, the highlighting of the text disappears nearly immediately.

Steps to reproduce

Go to https://meierluk.github.io/quarto-test/, search e.g. for "Knuth" and click on the corresponding result.

Alternatively, I can also simply open https://meierluk.github.io/quarto-test/references.html?q=Knuth.

The behavior might be caused by this.

The source is based on the template and is available at https://github.com/meierluk/quarto-test/tree/main/source.

Expected behavior

The highlighting should not go away.

Actual behavior

The highlighting disappears.

Your environment

• IDE RStudio 2024.04.1 Build 748
• OS: Windows 11

Quarto check output

Quarto 1.4.554
[>] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.1.11: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.69.5: OK
      Deno version 1.37.2: OK
[>] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[>] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.4.554
      Path: C:\Users\meierluk\AppData\Local\Programs\Quarto\bin
      CodePage: 1252

[>] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: v2024.04
      Chromium: (not installed)

[>] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: TinyTex
      Path: C:\Users\meierluk\AppData\Roaming\TinyTeX\bin\windows\
      Version: 2024

[>] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[>] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.10.0
      Path: C:/Users/meierluk/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python310/python.exe
      Jupyter: 4.9.2
      Kernels: julia-1.9, python3

(\) Checking Jupyter engine render....Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\meierluk\AppData\Local\Programs\Quarto\share\jupyter\jupyter.py", line 21, in <module>
    from notebook import notebook_execute, RestartKernel
  File "C:\Users\meierluk\AppData\Local\Programs\Quarto\share\jupyter\notebook.py", line 14, in <module>
    from yaml import safe_load
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'yaml'
[>] Checking Jupyter engine render....OK

[jtbayly]

In my pull request, I simply removed the code that clears the highlights on search terms. I don't understand why just because somebody scrolls we would want the highlight on the search term to disappear. Obviously it was an intentional design decision, but so was highlighting the search terms, which currently doesn't happen.

[mcanouil]

For reference (look in thread):

• Auto-focus Algolia search box on page load when there's a query parameter #13123

[cderv]

Fixed by PR #13442 which removes scroll-based highlight clearing entirely. Search highlights now persist until navigation or query change.

Playwright test coverage for the expected behavior is coming in PR #14049.