# Can I turn off kibana search highlight? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 31, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-turn-off-kibana-search-highlight/23018 "2015-03-31T17:36:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lincoln\_Xiong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Lincoln\_Xiong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lincoln_Xiong)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-turn-off-kibana-search-highlight/23018/1 "2015-03-31T17:36:27Z")
The search highlight is somehow very useful. But is there a setting or a configuration that allow me to turn the search highlight off? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a585ed41-01e7-45d9-953e-dc634b2cd0d0%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a585ed41-01e7-45d9-953e-dc634b2cd0d0%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![tgdesrochers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tgdesrochers/32/51322_2.png) [@tgdesrochers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tgdesrochers)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-turn-off-kibana-search-highlight/23018/2 "2016-02-15T13:54:59Z")
I'd like to know if you've ever found out how to do this. I found a button in the settings tab but it does not disable highlighting as the description suggests. Disabling highlights would be great especially for those searches used to build dashboards. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-turn-off-kibana-search-highlight/23018/3 "2017-07-05T23:16:26Z")