# Returning text snippet containing highlighted hits
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/returning-text-snippet-containing-highlighted-hits/5864
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 14, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/returning-text-snippet-containing-highlighted-hits/5864 "2011-11-14T12:28:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Grundler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Robert_Grundler)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/returning-text-snippet-containing-highlighted-hits/5864/1 "2011-11-14T12:28:50Z")
Hi,
we're indexing tables from a relational database where some fields have a
rather large amount of text. What i'm trying to implement is some sort of
"snippet preview" to show part of the text which contains the highlighted
match.
Is there some way to retrieve this kind of result directly from
elasticsearch?
regards
-robert
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### Author:  [@Mauricio\_Alarcon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mauricio_Alarcon)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/returning-text-snippet-containing-highlighted-hits/5864/2 "2011-11-14T15:32:55Z")
Hi Robert
just use the highlight option, it has neat options like the tags to
use, the size of the fragment and the number of fragments to return
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On Nov 14, 7:28 am, Robert Gründler [r.gruend...@gmail.com](mailto:r.gruend...@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we're indexing tables from a relational database where some fields have a
> rather large amount of text. What i'm trying to implement is some sort of
> "snippet preview" to show part of the text which contains the highlighted
> match.
>
> Is there some way to retrieve this kind of result directly from
> elasticsearch?
>
> regards
>
> -robert
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/returning-text-snippet-containing-highlighted-hits/5864/3 "2017-07-06T03:48:44Z")