# Complete suggestions highlighting

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/complete-suggestions-highlighting/354728>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-app-search\
**Created:** [March 5, 2024, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/complete-suggestions-highlighting/354728 "2024-03-05T11:13:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Riad\_BENRABEH](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/riad_benrabeh/32/123326_2.png) [@Riad\_BENRABEH](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Riad_BENRABEH)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/complete-suggestions-highlighting/354728/1 "2024-03-05T11:13:08Z")

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Hello community ! I'm seeking assistance on implementing highlighting within suggestion results in Elasticsearch. Currently, I'm utilizing the completion suggester field to generate suggestions.

Context:

When utilizing the completion suggester in Elasticsearch, it doesn't directly support highlighting similar to regular search queries.

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**Author:** ![rtwolfe94022](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rtwolfe94022/32/132253_2.png) [@rtwolfe94022](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rtwolfe94022)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 4:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/complete-suggestions-highlighting/354728/2 "2024-03-20T04:33:35Z")

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[Best Guess]

To implement highlighting in suggestion results from the Elasticsearch completion suggester, you need a workaround because the suggester itself doesn't support highlighting. First, query the suggester to get suggestions, then use those suggestions to perform a regular search query with highlighting enabled on a text field containing the same data. Finally, combine the suggestion and highlighting results for the final output.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 4:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/complete-suggestions-highlighting/354728/3 "2024-04-17T04:34:16Z")

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