Narrowing Your Search

This section describes features on the docs.sun.com Web site that enable you to restrict the scope of your search.

Search Book Titles Only

The docs.sun.com site provides a book title-related option that enables you to narrow your search. Before requesting a search, you can select Search Book Titles Only by clicking the check box after the Go button. If you select Search Book Titles Only, the site searches only the titles of books for the word or phrase that you type.

Search Using the Within Pull-Down Menu

Within titles, subject categories, or product categories, you can limit searching to the books that belong to a particular subject or product. As you climb up and down a tree structure on the docs.sun.com site, you can use the Within pull-down menu to narrow or expand the scope of your search by selecting a subcategory from a list of collections, subjects, or products. As you browse through categories and subcategories, those categories and subcategories are added to the list of options in the Within list. You can select any of the categories or subcategories in the Within list to modify the scope of your search.

To determine the scope of your search, choose one of the following options from the Within pull-down menu:

• Select the All Books option to search in all the books on the docs.sun.com Web site. This option is available for any search.

• Select a subject or product category, or subcategory, to search in the subject or product tree you are browsing at the time of the search. Expand your search by selecting any of the parent categories you browsed to arrive at the current category. This option is available when viewing a subject or product category, a browsing feature, or a book.

• Select the This Collection option to search only in the books in the collection that you are viewing at the time of the search. This option is available when viewing a collection or any book that is published as part of a collection.

• Select the This Book option to search only the book that you are viewing at the time of the search. This option is available only when viewing XML-based or HTML-based books.