API Reference / Angular InstantSearch Widgets / ais-range-slider
Apr. 24, 2019

ais-range-slider

You are reading the documentation for Angular InstantSearch v3, which is in beta. You can find the v2 documentation here.

Widget signature
<ais-range-slider
  attribute="string"

  // Optional parameters
  [min]="number"
  [max]="number"
  [precision]="number"
  [pips]="boolean"
  [tooltips]="boolean"
></ais-range-slider>

About this widget

The ais-range-slider allows a user to select a numeric range using a third party slider (noUiSlider in that case).

Requirements

The attribute provided to the widget must be present in “attributes for faceting” on the Algolia dashboard or configured as attributesForFaceting via setSettings. The values inside the attribute must be numbers, not strings.

You need to import the external CSS by yourself to make the range slider work. The CSS file is available at:

  • https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/noUiSlider/10.1.0/nouislider.min.css (CDN)
  • node_modules/nouislider/distribute/nouislider.min.css (local)

Examples

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<ais-range-slider attribute="price"></ais-range-slider>

Props

attribute
type: string
Required

The name of the attribute in the record.

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<ais-range-slider attribute="price"></ais-range-slider>
min
type: number
Optional

The minimum value for the range. When not provided, the minimum value is automatically computed by Algolia from the data in the index.

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<ais-range-slider
  // ...
  [min]="10"
></ais-range-slider>
max
type: number
Optional

The maximum value for the range. When not provided, the maximum value is automatically computed by Algolia from the data in the index.

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<ais-range-slider
  // ...
  [max]="500"
></ais-range-slider>
precision
type: number
default: 2
Optional

The number of digits after the decimal point to use.

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<ais-range-slider
  // ...
  [precision]="0"
></ais-range-slider>
pips
type: boolean
default: true
Optional

Show slider pips or not.

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<ais-range-slider
  // ...
  [pips]="false"
></ais-range-slider>
tooltips
type: boolean
default: true
Optional

Show slider tooltips or not.

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<ais-range-slider
  // ...
  [tooltips]="false"
></ais-range-slider>

Customize the UI - connectRange

If you want to create your own UI of the ais-range-slider widget, you can combine the connectRange connector with the BaseWidget class.

This connector is also used to build other widgets: RangeInput

1. Extend the BaseWidget class

First of all, you will need to write some boilerplate code in order to initialize correctly the BaseWidget class. This happens in the constructor() of your class extending the BaseWidget class.

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import { Component, Inject, forwardRef } from '@angular/core';
import { BaseWidget, NgAisInstantSearch } from 'angular-instantsearch';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-range-slider',
  template: '<p>It works!</p>'
})
export class RangeSlider extends BaseWidget {
  constructor(
    @Inject(forwardRef(() => NgAisInstantSearch))
    public instantSearchParent
  ) {
    super('RangeSlider');
  }
}

There are a couple of things happening in this boilerplate:

  • we create a RangeSlider class extending BaseWidget
  • we reference the <ais-instantsearch> parent component instance on the RangeSlider widget class
  • we set app-range-slider as a selector, so we can use our component as <app-range-slider></app-range-slider>

2. Connect your custom widget

The BaseWidget class has a method called createWidget() which takes two arguments: the connector to use and an object of options (instance options) for this connector. We call this method at ngOnInit. This component now implements OnInit.

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import { Component, Inject, forwardRef } from '@angular/core';
import { BaseWidget, NgAisInstantSearch } from 'angular-instantsearch';
import { connectRange } from 'instantsearch.js/es/connectors';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-range-slider',
  template: '<p>It works!</p>'
})
export class RangeSlider extends BaseWidget {
  public state: {
    // render options
  };
  constructor(
    @Inject(forwardRef(() => NgAisInstantSearch))
    public instantSearchParent
  ) {
    super('RangeSlider');
  }
  ngOnInit() {
    this.createWidget(connectRange, {
      // instance options
      attribute: 'price',
    });
    super.ngOnInit();
  }
}

3. Render from the state

Your component instance has access to a this.state property which holds the rendering options of the widget.

public state: {
  start: number[];
  range: object;
  refine: Function;
  widgetParams: object;
}
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<div *ngIf="state.range">
  <input
    type="range"
    #input
    [min]="state.range.min"
    [max]="state.range.max"
    (change)="state.refine([state.range.min, input.value])"
  />
  {{input.value}}
</div>

Rendering options

start
type: number[]

The current value for the refinement, with start[0] as the minimum value and start[1] as the maximum value.

range
type: object

The current available value for the range.

refine
type: function

Sets a range to filter the results on. Both values are optional, and default to the higher and lower bounds. You can use undefined to remove a previously set bound or to set an infinite bound.

widgetParams
type: object

All original widget options forwarded to the render function.

Instance options

attribute
type: string
Required

The name of the attribute in the record.

min
type: number
Optional

The minimum value for the input. When not provided, the minimum value is automatically computed by Algolia from the data in the index.

max
type: number
Optional

The maximum value for the input. When not provided, the maximum value is automatically computed by Algolia from the data in the index.

precision
type: number
default: 0
Optional

The number of digits after the decimal point to use.

Full example

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import { Component, Inject, forwardRef } from '@angular/core';
import { BaseWidget, NgAisInstantSearch } from 'angular-instantsearch';
import { connectRange } from 'instantsearch.js/es/connectors';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-range-slider',
  template: `
<div *ngIf="state.range">
  <input
    type="range"
    #input
    [min]="state.range.min"
    [max]="state.range.max"
    (change)="state.refine([state.range.min, input.value])"
  />
  {{input.value}}
</div>
`
})
export class RangeSlider extends BaseWidget {
  public state: {
     start: number[];
     range: object;
     refine: Function;
     widgetParams: object;
  };
  constructor(
    @Inject(forwardRef(() => NgAisInstantSearch))
    public instantSearchParent
  ) {
    super('RangeSlider');
  }
  ngOnInit() {
    this.createWidget(connectRange, {
      // instance options
      attribute: 'price',
    });
    super.ngOnInit();
  }
}

HTML output

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<div class="ais-RangeSlider">
  <div class="rheostat rheostat-horizontal" style="position: relative;">
    <div class="rheostat-background"></div>
    <div class="rheostat-handle rehostat-handle--lower" aria-valuemax="5000" aria-valuemin="1" aria-valuenow="750" aria-disabled="false" data-handle-key="0" role="slider" tabindex="0" style="left: 15%; position: absolute;">
      <div class="rheostat-tooltip">$750</div>
    </div>
    <div class="rheostat-handle rheostat-handle--upper" aria-valuemax="5000" aria-valuemin="750" aria-valuenow="5000" aria-disabled="false" data-handle-key="1" role="slider" tabindex="0" style="left: 100%; position: absolute;">
      <div class="rheostat-tooltip">$5,000</div>
    </div>
    <div class="rheostat-progress" style="left: 15%; width: 85%;"></div>
    <div class="rheostat-marker rheostat-marker--large" style="left: 0%; position: absolute; margin-left: 0px;">
      <div class="rheostat-value">1</div>
    </div>
    <div class="rheostat-marker" style="left: 2.94118%; position: absolute; margin-left: 0px;"></div>
    <!-- ... -->
    <div class="rheostat-marker" style="left: 97.0588%; position: absolute; margin-left: 0px;"></div>
    <div class="rheostat-marker rheostat-marker--large" style="left: 100%; position: absolute; margin-left: -1px;">
      <div class="rheostat-value">5,000</div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

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