# Highlighting one set of query strings but not all
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-one-set-of-query-strings-but-not-all/4027
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 3, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-one-set-of-query-strings-but-not-all/4027 "2011-03-03T22:26:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@whiterook6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/whiterook6)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-one-set-of-query-strings-but-not-all/4027/1 "2011-03-03T22:26:00Z")
Hi, new to ES and having fun. I'm building a search query where I search one field in the index, say "description" with some terms, and another field "ids" with other terms. I highlight description but it highlights the terms queried against ids, not just the terms queried against description. Is there some way around this? Can I give the highlighter which terms to highlight manually in a search?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-one-set-of-query-strings-but-not-all/4027/2 "2017-07-06T04:10:55Z")