# Error In Docs Regarding number\_of\_fragments **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 19, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-docs-regarding-number-of-fragments/4256 "2011-04-19T17:20:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![timscott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timscott/32/3220_2.png) [@timscott](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/timscott)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-docs-regarding-number-of-fragments/4256/1 "2011-04-19T17:20:27Z")
FYI... I saw this in the docs: "If the number\_of\_fragments value is set to 0 then no fragments are produced, instead the whole content of the field is returned, and of course it is highlighted." This did not work for me. It returned no highlights. Through trial and error, I discovered that setting number\_of\_fragments to -1 does exhibit this behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas_vlcek1/32/819_2.png) [@Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Vlcek1)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-docs-regarding-number-of-fragments/4256/2 "2011-04-19T18:53:34Z")
Hi, interesting, do you think you can provide recreation script for this? I am using value 0 and it works as expected, also I can see that there are some tests in ES using value 0 as well. Regards, Lukas On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Tim Scott [tscott@lunaversesoftware.com](mailto:tscott@lunaversesoftware.com)wrote: > FYI... > > I saw this in the docs: > > "If the number\_of\_fragments value is set to 0 then no fragments are > produced, instead the whole content of the field is returned, and of > course it is highlighted." > > This did not work for me. It returned no highlights. Through trial > and error, I discovered that setting number\_of\_fragments to -1 does > exhibit this behavior. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-docs-regarding-number-of-fragments/4256/3 "2017-07-06T04:08:03Z")