# Highlighting is case sensitive?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-is-case-sensitive/85328>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 11, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-is-case-sensitive/85328 "2017-05-11T05:46:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![mruthyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@mruthyu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mruthyu)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-is-case-sensitive/85328/1 "2017-05-11T05:46:57Z")

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I am doing a search with **ERROR** then the loglevel field is highlighted in the results. But when I use the lowercase **error** search term then it does bring back the same results but loglevel field is not being highlighted.

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-is-case-sensitive/85328/2 "2017-05-11T15:31:21Z")

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Could you provide the mappings for the data you're searching?

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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:** [June 8, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-is-case-sensitive/85328/3 "2017-06-08T15:36:19Z")

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