# Highlight snippets that do not cross new lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 17, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-snippets-that-do-not-cross-new-lines/55681 "2016-07-17T03:45:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hherman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@hherman1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hherman1)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-snippets-that-do-not-cross-new-lines/55681/1 "2016-07-17T03:45:41Z")
I would like to be able to receive highlights from elasticsearch that do not cross newlines. Suppose I have the following document: """ Foo Bar Baz """ I would like a search for "Foo Bar Baz" to return [Foo,Bar,Baz] as seaparate highlights, due to the new lines. Rather, however, it retursn ["Foo Bar Baz"] as a single highlight. Could anyone help me here? I don't see anyhthing about this on the documentation for highlighting. ---
**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-snippets-that-do-not-cross-new-lines/55681/2 "2016-07-17T14:58:42Z")
I don't think that is a thing that the highlighters support right now. If you split by new line and put the text in a json array before putting into elasticsearch it'd do what you wanted though. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-snippets-that-do-not-cross-new-lines/55681/3 "2017-07-05T22:34:56Z")