search: support searching for (sub)titles

CHANGES

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Features added
 * #10755: linkcheck: Check the source URL of raw directives that use the ``url``
   option.
 * #10781: Allow :rst:role:`ref` role to be used with definitions and fields.
+* #10717: HTML Search: support searching for (sub)title.s
 
 Bugs fixed
 ----------

sphinx/search/__init__.py

@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ class WordCollector(nodes.NodeVisitor):
     def __init__(self, document: nodes.document, lang: SearchLanguage) -> None:
         super().__init__(document)
         self.found_words: List[str] = []
+        self.found_titles: List[Tuple[str, str]] = []
         self.found_title_words: List[str] = []
         self.lang = lang
 
@@ -213,7 +214,10 @@ def dispatch_visit(self, node: Node) -> None:
         elif isinstance(node, nodes.Text):
             self.found_words.extend(self.lang.split(node.astext()))
         elif isinstance(node, nodes.title):
-            self.found_title_words.extend(self.lang.split(node.astext()))
+            title = node.astext()
+            ids = node.parent['ids']
+            self.found_titles.append((title, ids[0] if ids else None))
+            self.found_title_words.extend(self.lang.split(title))
         elif isinstance(node, Element) and self.is_meta_keywords(node):
             keywords = node['content']
             keywords = [keyword.strip() for keyword in keywords.split(',')]
@@ -237,6 +241,7 @@ def __init__(self, env: BuildEnvironment, lang: str, options: Dict, scoring: str
         self._mapping: Dict[str, Set[str]] = {}     # stemmed word -> set(docname)
         # stemmed words in titles -> set(docname)
         self._title_mapping: Dict[str, Set[str]] = {}
+        self._all_titles: Dict[str, List[Tuple[str, str]]] = {}  # docname -> all titles
         self._stem_cache: Dict[str, str] = {}       # word -> stemmed word
         self._objtypes: Dict[Tuple[str, str], int] = {}     # objtype -> index
         # objtype index -> (domain, type, objname (localized))
@@ -281,6 +286,11 @@ def load(self, stream: IO, format: Any) -> None:
         index2fn = frozen['docnames']
         self._filenames = dict(zip(index2fn, frozen['filenames']))
         self._titles = dict(zip(index2fn, frozen['titles']))
+        self._all_titles = {}
+
+        for title, doc_tuples in frozen['alltitles'].items():
+            for doc, titleid in doc_tuples:
+                self._all_titles.setdefault(index2fn[doc], []).append((title, titleid))
 
         def load_terms(mapping: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Set[str]]:
             rv = {}
@@ -364,23 +374,33 @@ def freeze(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         objects = self.get_objects(fn2index)  # populates _objtypes
         objtypes = {v: k[0] + ':' + k[1] for (k, v) in self._objtypes.items()}
         objnames = self._objnames
+
+        alltitles: Dict[str, List[Tuple[int, str]]] = {}
+        for docname, titlelist in self._all_titles.items():
+            for title, titleid in titlelist:
+                alltitles.setdefault(title.lower(), []).append((fn2index[docname],  titleid))
+
         return dict(docnames=docnames, filenames=filenames, titles=titles, terms=terms,
                     objects=objects, objtypes=objtypes, objnames=objnames,
-                    titleterms=title_terms, envversion=self.env.version)
+                    titleterms=title_terms, envversion=self.env.version,
+                    alltitles=alltitles)
 
     def label(self) -> str:
         return "%s (code: %s)" % (self.lang.language_name, self.lang.lang)
 
     def prune(self, docnames: Iterable[str]) -> None:
         """Remove data for all docnames not in the list."""
         new_titles = {}
+        new_alltitles = {}
         new_filenames = {}
         for docname in docnames:
             if docname in self._titles:
                 new_titles[docname] = self._titles[docname]
+                new_alltitles[docname] = self._all_titles[docname]
                 new_filenames[docname] = self._filenames[docname]
         self._titles = new_titles
         self._filenames = new_filenames
+        self._all_titles = new_alltitles
         for wordnames in self._mapping.values():
             wordnames.intersection_update(docnames)
         for wordnames in self._title_mapping.values():
@@ -403,6 +423,8 @@ def stem(word: str) -> str:
                 return self._stem_cache[word]
         _filter = self.lang.word_filter
 
+        self._all_titles[docname] = visitor.found_titles
+
         for word in visitor.found_title_words:
             stemmed_word = stem(word)
             if _filter(stemmed_word):

sphinx/themes/basic/static/searchtools.js

@@ -237,6 +237,11 @@ const Search = {
    * execute search (requires search index to be loaded)
    */
   query: (query) => {
+    const docNames = Search._index.docnames;
+    const filenames = Search._index.filenames;
+    const titles = Search._index.titles;
+    const allTitles = Search._index.alltitles;
+
     // stem the search terms and add them to the correct list
     const stemmer = new Stemmer();
     const searchTerms = new Set();
@@ -272,6 +277,21 @@ const Search = {
     let results = [];
     _removeChildren(document.getElementById("search-progress"));
 
+    const queryLower = query.toLowerCase();
+    Object.keys(allTitles).forEach((title) => {
+      if (title.includes(queryLower) && (queryLower.length >= title.length * 0.75))
+        allTitles[title].forEach((titlematch) => {
+          results.push([
+            docNames[titlematch[0]],
+            titles[titlematch[0]],
+            titlematch[1] !== null ? "#" + titlematch[1] : "",
+            null,
+            Math.round(100 * (queryLower.length / title.length)),
+            filenames[titlematch[0]],
+          ]);
+        })
+    });
+
     // lookup as object
     objectTerms.forEach((term) =>
       results.push(...Search.performObjectSearch(term, objectTerms))

tests/test_search.py

@@ -177,7 +177,8 @@ def test_IndexBuilder():
                   'non': [0, 1, 2, 3],
                   'test': [0, 1, 2, 3]},
         'titles': ('title1_1', 'title1_2', 'title2_1', 'title2_2'),
-        'titleterms': {'section_titl': [0, 1, 2, 3]}
+        'titleterms': {'section_titl': [0, 1, 2, 3]},
+        'alltitles': {'section_title': [(0, 'section-title'), (1, 'section-title'), (2, 'section-title'), (3, 'section-title')]}
     }
     assert index._objtypes == {('dummy1', 'objtype1'): 0, ('dummy2', 'objtype1'): 1}
     assert index._objnames == {0: ('dummy1', 'objtype1', 'objtype1'),
@@ -234,7 +235,8 @@ def test_IndexBuilder():
                   'non': [0, 1],
                   'test': [0, 1]},
         'titles': ('title1_2', 'title2_2'),
-        'titleterms': {'section_titl': [0, 1]}
+        'titleterms': {'section_titl': [0, 1]},
+        'alltitles': {'section_title': [(0, 'section-title'), (1, 'section-title')]}
     }
     assert index._objtypes == {('dummy1', 'objtype1'): 0, ('dummy2', 'objtype1'): 1}
     assert index._objnames == {0: ('dummy1', 'objtype1', 'objtype1'),