API Reference / Angular InstantSearch / ais-clear-refinements
Signature
<ais-clear-refinements
  // Optional parameters
  [includedAttributes]="string[]"
  [excludedAttributes]="string[]"
  [autoHideContainer]="boolean"
></ais-clear-refinements>

About this widget # A

The ais-clear-refinements widget displays a button that lets the user clean every refinement applied to the search.

Examples # A

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<ais-clear-refinements></ais-clear-refinements>

Props # A

excludedAttributes #
type: string[]
default: ["query"]
Optional

The attributes to exclude from the refinements to clear. In the example below, the attribute brand is excluded from the refinements to clear.

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<ais-clear-refinements
  [excludedAttributes]="['brand']"
></ais-clear-refinements>
includedAttributes #
type: string[]
default: []
Optional

The attributes to include in the refinements to clear (all by default). In the example below, only the query and categories attributes are included in the refinements to clear.

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<ais-clear-refinements
  [includedAttributes]=['query', 'categories']
></ais-clear-refinements>
autoHideContainer #
type: boolean
default: false
Optional

Hides the widget if there’s no refinements to display

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<ais-clear-refinements
  [autoHideContainer]="true"
></ais-clear-refinements>

HTML output# A

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<div class="ais-ClearRefinements">
  <button class="ais-ClearRefinements-button">
    Clear refinements
  </button>
</div>

Customize the UI with connectClearRefinements# A

If you want to create your own UI of the ais-clear-refinements widget, you can combine the connectClearRefinements connector with the TypedBaseWidget class.

1. Extend the TypedBaseWidget class#

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

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

@Component({
  selector: 'app-clear-refinements',
  template: '<p>It works!</p>'
})
export class ClearRefinements extends TypedBaseWidget {
  constructor(
    @Inject(forwardRef(() => NgAisIndex))
    @Optional()
    public parentIndex: NgAisIndex,
    @Inject(forwardRef(() => NgAisInstantSearch))
    public instantSearchInstance: NgAisInstantSearch
  ) {
    super('ClearRefinements');
  }
}

There are a couple of things happening in this boilerplate:

  • create a ClearRefinements class extending TypedBaseWidget
  • reference the <ais-instantsearch> parent component instance on the ClearRefinements widget class
  • set app-clear-refinements as a selector, so we can use our component as <app-clear-refinements></app-clear-refinements>

2. Connect your custom widget#

The TypedBaseWidget 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, Optional } from '@angular/core';
import { TypedBaseWidget, NgAisInstantSearch, NgAisIndex } from 'angular-instantsearch';

import connectClearRefinements, {
  ClearRefinementsWidgetDescription,
  ClearRefinementsConnectorParams
} from 'instantsearch.js/es/connectors/clear-refinements/connectClearRefinements';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-clear-refinements',
  template: '<p>It works!</p>'
})
export class ClearRefinements extends TypedBaseWidget<ClearRefinementsWidgetDescription, ClearRefinementsConnectorParams> {
  public state: ClearRefinementsWidgetDescription['renderState']; // Rendering options
  constructor(
    @Inject(forwardRef(() => NgAisIndex))
    @Optional()
    public parentIndex: NgAisIndex,
    @Inject(forwardRef(() => NgAisInstantSearch))
    public instantSearchInstance: NgAisInstantSearch
  ) {
    super('ClearRefinements');
  }
  ngOnInit() {
    this.createWidget(connectClearRefinements, {
      // instance options
    });
    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: ClearRefinementsWidgetDescription['renderState'];
// {
//   hasRefinements: boolean;
//   refine: Function;
//   createURL: Function;
//   widgetParams: object;
// }
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<button (click)="state.refine()"> Clear all </button>

Rendering options #

hasRefinements #
type: boolean

Whether there are currently applied refinements.

refine #
type: function

Clears all the currently refined values and triggers a new search.

createURL #
type: function

Generates a URL for the next state.

widgetParams #
type: object

All original widget options forwarded to the render function.

Instance options #

includedAttributes #
type: string[]
default: []
Optional

The attributes to include in the refinements to clear (all by default). Can’t be used with excludedAttributes. In the example below, only the categories attribute is included in the refinements to clear.

excludedAttributes #
type: string[]
default: ["query"]
Optional

The attributes to exclude from the refinements to clear. Can’t be used with includedAttributes. In the example below, the attribute brand is excluded from the refinements to clear.

transformItems #
type: function
default: items => items
Optional

Receives the items to clear, and is called before clearing them. Should return a new array with the same shape as the original array. Useful for filtering items.

In addition, the full results data is available, which includes all regular response parameters, as well as parameters from the helper (for example disjunctiveFacetsRefinements).

Full example#

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

import connectClearRefinements, {
  ClearRefinementsWidgetDescription,
  ClearRefinementsConnectorParams
} from 'instantsearch.js/es/connectors/clear-refinements/connectClearRefinements';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-clear-refinements',
  template: `
<button (click)="state.refine()"> Clear all </button>
`
})
export class ClearRefinements extends TypedBaseWidget<ClearRefinementsWidgetDescription, ClearRefinementsConnectorParams> {
  public state: ClearRefinementsWidgetDescription['renderState']; // Rendering options
  constructor(
    @Inject(forwardRef(() => NgAisIndex))
    @Optional()
    public parentIndex: NgAisIndex,
    @Inject(forwardRef(() => NgAisInstantSearch))
    public instantSearchInstance: NgAisInstantSearch
  ) {
    super('ClearRefinements');
  }
  ngOnInit() {
    this.createWidget(connectClearRefinements, {
      // instance options
    });
    super.ngOnInit();
  }
}
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