# Query text with White space **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Search\ **Created:** [December 6, 2021, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-text-with-white-space/291078 "2021-12-06T19:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![miki\_haiat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/miki_haiat/32/83361_2.png) [@miki\_haiat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/miki_haiat)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-text-with-white-space/291078/1 "2021-12-06T19:49:30Z")
Hey i want to query text that include white space as single term for example **los angeles** I've tried some of Lucene options but fetch wrong docs. ```auto "query": "Los \\ Ange*" "query": "Los* Ange*", "query": "Los \"AND \" Ange", ``` What is the correct way to search term with whitespace ? ---
**Author:** ![Jay\_Miller](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jay_miller/32/98855_2.png) [@Jay\_Miller](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jay_Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-text-with-white-space/291078/2 "2021-12-13T19:20:41Z")
@miki_haiat, Are you searching Workplace Search or App Search/Site Search? If using App Search there are a few things to keep in mind but the simplest solution would be `"query": "\"Los Angeles\""`. There are some other ways you can get a higher accuracy (see [relevance tuning](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/app-search/7.16/precision-tuning.html)) but wrapping in quotes seems to be the query-specific solution. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-text-with-white-space/291078/3 "2022-11-04T08:33:16Z")