# Highlight one field twice with different fragments in one search
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-one-field-twice-with-different-fragments-in-one-search/3743
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 5, 2011, 2:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-one-field-twice-with-different-fragments-in-one-search/3743 "2011-01-05T02:13:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@locojay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/locojay)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 2:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-one-field-twice-with-different-fragments-in-one-search/3743/1 "2011-01-05T02:13:34Z")
Hi ,
I would like to highlight a field twice :
```
1 - number of fragments to 0 ==> get all highlighted
2- number of fragments to x ==> get some fragments highlighted
```
in one search.
from a json perspective this will not work
curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/testindex\_index/\_search](http://localhost:9200/testindex_index/_search)' -d '{"highlight": {"fields": {"fulltext": {"number\_of\_fragments": 0},"fulltext": {"number\_of\_fragments": 5}},"post\_tags": [""],"pre\_tags": ["_"]},"query": {"query\_string": {"query": "test"}},"size": 1}'_
since its a dict.
The only thing i can think of is adding another field "fulltextcopy" to my model and reindex all .
Unfortunately the fulltext field is really large and i have about 100m docs. If i am not mistaken even by setting store to false will increase the size of my data folder.
Something nice would be the ability to add for example fieldname\_\_copy and then es would strip of \_\_copy and call lucene highlighter on that filed.
Thanks for any suggestions
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### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-one-field-twice-with-different-fragments-in-one-search/3743/2 "2011-01-05T12:28:31Z")
Open a feature request for it. Should be simple to implement.
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Jassin MEKNASSI \<
[jassin.meknassi@googlemail.com](mailto:jassin.meknassi@googlemail.com)\> wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I would like to highlight a field twice :
>
> ```
> 1 - number of fragments to 0 ==> get all highlighted
> 2- number of fragments to x ==> get some fragments
>
> ```
>
> highlighted
>
> in one search.
>
> from a json perspective this will not work
>
> curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/testindex\_index/\_search](http://localhost:9200/testindex_index/_search)' -d
> '{"highlight": {"fields": {"fulltext": {"number\_of\_fragments":
> 0},"fulltext": {"number\_of\_fragments": 5}},"post\_tags":
> [""],"pre\_tags": ["_"]},"query": {"query\_string": {"query":
> "test"}},"size": 1}'_
>
>
>
> _since its a dict._
>
>
>
> _The only thing i can think of is adding another field "fulltextcopy" to my
> model and reindex all ._
>
>
>
> _Unfortunately the fulltext field is really large and i have about 100m
> docs. If i am not mistaken even by setting store to false will increase the
> size of my data folder._
>
>
>
> _Something nice would be the ability to add for example fieldname\_\_copy and
> then es would strip of \_\_copy and call lucene highlighter on that filed._
>
>
>
> _Thanks for any suggestions_
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-one-field-twice-with-different-fragments-in-one-search/3743/3 "2017-07-06T04:14:19Z")