# Highlight query functionality in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-functionality-in-kibana/45365>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 24, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-functionality-in-kibana/45365 "2016-03-24T15:52:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ap5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@ap5](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ap5)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-functionality-in-kibana/45365/1 "2016-03-24T15:52:07Z")

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Hi there,

I was wondering if the highlight functionality of ES would be available in Kibana, so when I am doing a search I can get the highlighted text (and I don't mean the highlighting that appears on the search).

So that I do something like rawText:today and then I could add

"highlight": {  
"fields": {  
"rawText": {}  
}  
}

so that I can see where this word appears in the text and only the context surrounding it.

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-functionality-in-kibana/45365/2 "2016-03-24T18:32:01Z")

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Can you describe exactly where in Kibana you want to see the highlighted search results? Are you on Discover page, or a visualization? Maybe a screenshot would be good.

Regards,  
Lee

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-query-functionality-in-kibana/45365/3 "2017-07-06T13:57:57Z")

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