# Highlight values from one field in another field
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-values-from-one-field-in-another-field/15064
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 31, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-values-from-one-field-in-another-field/15064 "2013-12-31T14:40:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Maya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Maya)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-values-from-one-field-in-another-field/15064/1 "2013-12-31T14:40:21Z")
Hi All,
We have multi value field - "name". We would like to highlight those values
in anther field - "text". For example, for the values:
"name" : ["name1", "name2", "name3", "name4"]
"text" : "name1 is a friend of name2"
we would like to get the result:
highlight: {
text : [_name1_ is a friend of _name2_]
}
Is it possible to reach that in a single query?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2013, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-values-from-one-field-in-another-field/15064/2 "2013-12-31T14:42:20Z")
You mean you want the terms highlighted in one field to come from the
contents of another field rather than the query? If so, then Elasticsearch
doesn't support that already but you could write a custom highlighter to do
that.
Nik
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:40 AM, mayap [maya.pollack@gmail.com](mailto:maya.pollack@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We have multi value field - "name". We would like to highlight those
> values in anther field - "text". For example, for the values:
> "name" : ["name1", "name2", "name3", "name4"]
> "text" : "name1 is a friend of name2"
>
> we would like to get the result:
> highlight: {
> text : [_name1_ is a friend of _name2_]
> }
>
> Is it possible to reach that in a single query?
>
> Thanks.
>
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### Author:  [@Maya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Maya)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2013, 4:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-values-from-one-field-in-another-field/15064/3 "2013-12-31T16:28:26Z")
Thanks for your reply.
I have another question:
Is it possible in highlight\_query (I'm using version 0.90.9) to use few
highlight tags? For example I want to highlight "text" field with
for one sub query and with for another sub query?
On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 4:42:20 PM UTC+2, Nikolas Everett wrote:
> You mean you want the terms highlighted in one field to come from the
> contents of another field rather than the query? If so, then Elasticsearch
> doesn't support that already but you could write a custom highlighter to do
> that.
>
> Nik
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:40 AM, mayap \<[maya.p...@gmail.com](mailto:maya.p...@gmail.com) \\>wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > We have multi value field - "name". We would like to highlight those
> > values in anther field - "text". For example, for the values:
> > "name" : ["name1", "name2", "name3", "name4"]
> > "text" : "name1 is a friend of name2"
> >
> > we would like to get the result:
> > highlight: {
> > text : [_name1_ is a friend of _name2_]
> > }
> >
> > Is it possible to reach that in a single query?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlight-values-from-one-field-in-another-field/15064/4 "2017-07-06T01:58:55Z")