# Highlighting in file attachment with has\_child query
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-in-file-attachment-with-has-child-query/4622
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 14, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-in-file-attachment-with-has-child-query/4622 "2011-06-14T22:03:33Z")
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### Author:  [@Lar\_Mader](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lar_Mader)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-in-file-attachment-with-has-child-query/4622/1 "2011-06-14T22:03:33Z")
I have a child document of type "contentFiles" with a field called
"file" of type attachment. This query successfully returns highlight
elements.
$ curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9201/foo\_acme/contentFiles/\_search](http://localhost:9201/foo_acme/contentFiles/_search)' -d
'{"query":{"field":{"file" : "Account"}},"highlight":{"fields":{"file":
{}}}}'
However when I try to query via the parent type "content" using a
has\_child query, I get the search results but I don't get the
highlight elements:
$ curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9201/foo\_acme/content/\_search](http://localhost:9201/foo_acme/content/_search)' -d
'{"query": {"has\_child":{"type":"contentFiles", "query":{"field":
{"file" : "Account"}},"highlight":{"fields":{"file":{}}}}}}'
I'm using elasticsearch version 0.16.0? Is this supported, or am I
doing something wrong?
For completeness, here is my mapping for the contentFiles type, but I
think the mapping is ok, since my first query works:
{
"contentFiles": {
"\_source" : {
"enabled" : false
},
"\_parent": {
"type" : "content"
},
"properties" : {
"file" : {
"type" : "attachment",
"fields" : {
"file" : {"store" : "yes", "term\_vector" :
"with\_positions\_offsets"}
}
}
}
}
}
Cheers,
Lar
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-in-file-attachment-with-has-child-query/4622/2 "2017-07-06T04:03:36Z")