---
title: Conditional Facets
description: Search UI has the ability to conditionally show facets based on the filters selected. This is useful for showing facets that are only relevant to certain...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/search-ui/guides-conditional-facets
products:
  - Search UI
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Conditional Facets
Search UI has the ability to conditionally show facets based on the filters selected. This is useful for showing facets that are only relevant to certain filters.
To use, add a `conditionalFacets` property to the configuration object. This property is a map of facet field names and a function to determine whether or not the facet should be shown.
```js
{
  conditionalFacets: {
    'category': ({ filters }) => {
      return filters.some(filter => filter.field === 'category' && filter.value === 'books');
    }
  }
}
```


## Examples


### Filter Not Selected Example

Returns true if the filter is not selected.
Example below is do not show the category facet if a category filter has been applied.
```javascript
  function FilterNotSelected(fieldName: string, value?: string) {
    return ({ filters }) => {
      return !filters.some(
        (f) => f.field === fieldName && (!value || f.values.includes(value))
      );
    };
  }

// configuration

  conditionalFacets: {
    'category': FilterNotSelected('category')
  }
```

Can also be scoped to a particular value of a filter.
```javascript
  conditionalFacets: {
    'category': FilterNotSelected('category', 'books')
  }
```


### Filter Is Selected

Returns true if the filter is selected.
Example below is show the shoe size facet if the shoes category filter has been applied.
```javascript
function FilterIsSelected(fieldName: string, value?: string) {
  return ({ filters }) => {
    return filters.some(
      (f) => f.field === fieldName && (!value || f.values.includes(value))
    );
  };
}

  conditionalFacets: {
    'shoe_size': FilterIsSelected('category', 'Shoes')
  }
```