Use external components

This is for:

Developer

Usually, all Atomic components are children of the atomic-search-interface component, as in the following markup.

<atomic-search-interface>
  <atomic-search-box></atomic-search-box>
  <atomic-result-list>
    <!-- ... -->
  </atomic-result-list>
</atomic-search-interface>

In more complex implementations, this is not always possible. You may want the search box or facets to be in a different part of the DOM, for example. We provide the atomic-external component to handle such scenarios.

<atomic-external>
  <atomic-search-box></atomic-search-box>
</atomic-external>
 
<!-- ... -->
 
<atomic-search-interface>
  <atomic-result-list>
    <!-- ... -->
  </atomic-result-list>
</atomic-search-interface>

The atomic-external component acts as a proxy for the atomic-search-interface component.

If there are multiple search interfaces in a page, use the selector property, which takes a CSS selector as an argument, to specify which search interface to link to.

<atomic-external selector="#interface-2">
  <atomic-search-box></atomic-search-box>
</atomic-external>
 
<!-- ... -->
 
<atomic-search-interface id="interface-1">
  <atomic-result-list>
    <!-- ... -->
  </atomic-result-list>
</atomic-search-interface>
 
<!-- ... -->
 
<atomic-search-interface id="interface-2">
  <atomic-result-list>
    <!-- ... -->
  </atomic-result-list>
</atomic-search-interface>

You can find a complete example in the Atomic project repository.