# Highlight the matched word in elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-the-matched-word-in-elasticsearch/15716>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 11, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-the-matched-word-in-elasticsearch/15716 "2014-02-11T04:56:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Navneet\_Mathpal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/navneet_mathpal/32/3677_2.png) [@Navneet\_Mathpal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Navneet_Mathpal)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-the-matched-word-in-elasticsearch/15716/1 "2014-02-11T04:56:14Z")

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Hi ,

how to highlight the matched word in elastic search if i am firing a query  
like

{  
"explain": true,  
"query": {  
"match": {  
"name": "age of kamal"  
}  
}  
}

how to highlight the result which contained "age of kamal"

Thanks  
Navneet Mathpal

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-the-matched-word-in-elasticsearch/15716/2 "2014-02-11T13:29:24Z")

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Hey,

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>
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You can just add a 'highlight' field to your JSON document, which specifies  
the fields to highlight on. Also, dont use explain in production, but only  
for debug purposes.

--Alex

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Navneet Mathpal \<[navneetmathpal93@gmail.com](mailto:navneetmathpal93@gmail.com)

> wrote:

> Hi ,
> 
> how to highlight the matched word in Elasticsearch if i am firing a  
> query like
> 
> {  
> "explain": true,  
> "query": {  
> "match": {  
> "name": "age of kamal"  
> }  
> }  
> }
> 
> how to highlight the result which contained "age of kamal"
> 
> Thanks  
> Navneet Mathpal
> 
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**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-the-matched-word-in-elasticsearch/15716/3 "2017-07-06T01:51:06Z")

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