# Highlight not working in Query\_String for some content **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 16, 2011, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-not-working-in-query-string-for-some-content/4639 "2011-06-16T12:56:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![senthil\_prabhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@senthil\_prabhu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/senthil_prabhu)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-not-working-in-query-string-for-some-content/4639/1 "2011-06-16T12:56:43Z")
Hi all, Highlight not working for the below query (query\_string) { "query\_string" : {"query" : "\_text:"Rasheed Wallace tied a season high with 25 points and had"","default\_operator" : "OR","analyzer" : "standard","allow\_leading\_wildcard" : true,"lowercase\_expanded\_terms" : true,"enable\_position\_increments" : true,"fuzzy\_prefix\_length" : 0,"fuzzy\_min\_sim" : 0.5,"phrase\_slop" : 0,"boost" : 1.0 } } but the same query working for the phrase "Rasheed Wallace tied" { "query\_string" : {"query" : "\_text:"Rasheed Wallace tied "","default\_operator" : "OR","analyzer" : "standard","allow\_leading\_wildcard" : true,"lowercase\_expanded\_terms" : true,"enable\_position\_increments" : true,"fuzzy\_prefix\_length" : 0,"fuzzy\_min\_sim" : 0.5,"phrase\_slop" : 0,"boost" : 1.0 } } How to solve this issue...? I want to highlight the searched content whatever it is.... Is there any possibilites...? ---
**Author:** ![ofavre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ofavre/32/116819_2.png) [@ofavre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ofavre)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-not-working-in-query-string-for-some-content/4639/2 "2011-07-13T15:57:57Z")
I think it comes from the phrase query. A query string with a quoted content won't work, a text\_phrase query won't either. I guess it has to do with the following file: modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/lucene/search/vectorhighlight/CustomFieldQuery.java in the flatten() function. -- Olivier Favre [www.yakaz.com](http://www.yakaz.com) 2011/6/16 senthil prabhu [senthilsebi@gmail.com](mailto:senthilsebi@gmail.com) > Hi all, > > Highlight not working for the below query (query\_string) > > { "query\_string" : {"query" : "\_text:"Rasheed Wallace tied a season > high with 25 points and had"","default\_operator" : "OR","analyzer" : > "standard","allow\_leading\_wildcard" : > true,"lowercase\_expanded\_terms" : true,"enable\_position\_increments" : > true,"fuzzy\_prefix\_length" : 0,"fuzzy\_min\_sim" : 0.5,"phrase\_slop" : > 0,"boost" : 1.0 } } > > but the same query working for the phrase "Rasheed Wallace tied" > > { "query\_string" : {"query" : "\_text:"Rasheed Wallace tied > "","default\_operator" : "OR","analyzer" : > "standard","allow\_leading\_wildcard" : > true,"lowercase\_expanded\_terms" : true,"enable\_position\_increments" : > true,"fuzzy\_prefix\_length" : 0,"fuzzy\_min\_sim" : 0.5,"phrase\_slop" : > 0,"boost" : 1.0 } } > > How to solve this issue...? > > I want to highlight the searched content whatever it is.... Is there > any possibilites...? ---
**Author:** ![Nicolas\_Lalevee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nicolas_lalevee/32/2892_2.png) [@Nicolas\_Lalevee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nicolas_Lalevee)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-not-working-in-query-string-for-some-content/4639/3 "2011-07-15T10:37:17Z")
Le 13 juil. 2011 à 17:57, Olivier Favre a écrit : > I think it comes from the phrase query. > A query string with a quoted content won't work, a text\_phrase query won't either. > > I guess it has to do with the following file: > modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/lucene/search/vectorhighlight/CustomFieldQuery.java > in the flatten() function. It has been fixed with my patch: > > > Prefix queries needs to be rewritten so the highlighter can work. So the pull re…quest. > > The highlight of prefix queries doesn't highlight the prefix but the full word. I have written some code on the client side to change the highlighted words. For instance, searching "ski", lucene highlight "\<\>skiing\", "\<\>skin\" or "\<\>skills\". So my code change the highlighted parts to be: "\<\>ski\in", "\<\>ski\n" or "\<\>ski\lls". This code may be interesting to be on the server part, but I don't know where. If you think it is interesting, let me know. Nicolas > -- > Olivier Favre > > [www.yakaz.com](http://www.yakaz.com) > > 2011/6/16 senthil prabhu [senthilsebi@gmail.com](mailto:senthilsebi@gmail.com) > Hi all, > > Highlight not working for the below query (query\_string) > > { "query\_string" : {"query" : "\_text:"Rasheed Wallace tied a season > high with 25 points and had"","default\_operator" : "OR","analyzer" : > "standard","allow\_leading\_wildcard" : > true,"lowercase\_expanded\_terms" : true,"enable\_position\_increments" : > true,"fuzzy\_prefix\_length" : 0,"fuzzy\_min\_sim" : 0.5,"phrase\_slop" : > 0,"boost" : 1.0 } } > > but the same query working for the phrase "Rasheed Wallace tied" > > { "query\_string" : {"query" : "\_text:"Rasheed Wallace tied > "","default\_operator" : "OR","analyzer" : > "standard","allow\_leading\_wildcard" : > true,"lowercase\_expanded\_terms" : true,"enable\_position\_increments" : > true,"fuzzy\_prefix\_length" : 0,"fuzzy\_min\_sim" : 0.5,"phrase\_slop" : > 0,"boost" : 1.0 } } > > How to solve this issue...? > > I want to highlight the searched content whatever it is.... Is there > any possibilites...? ---
**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, 4:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-not-working-in-query-string-for-some-content/4639/4 "2017-07-06T04:00:32Z")