# Searching for Documents containing Highlighting
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for-documents-containing-highlighting/153320
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 22, 2018, 4:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for-documents-containing-highlighting/153320 "2018-10-22T04:06:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@BirnamWood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BirnamWood)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2018, 4:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for-documents-containing-highlighting/153320/1 "2018-10-22T04:06:40Z")
Hi all, anyone come up with a method of searching a dataset for documents that have highlighting in them? It’s for a classification project? Any molten droplets of wisdom most appreciated !
Cheers colin
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### Author:  [@gbrown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gbrown)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for-documents-containing-highlighting/153320/2 "2018-10-26T14:39:06Z")
Hi!
Can you give an example of what you mean by "documents that have highlighting in them"? Do you mean something along the lines of:
`this is a document with some highlighted text`
Where you are searching for `highlighted` because it's in a particular set of tags?
Or do you mean something else?
If it's the former, I suspect your solution will involve carefully choosing your [Analyzer](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.4/analysis-analyzers.html) to make sure it preserves the highlighting tags properly combined with a [Span query](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/span-queries.html).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for-documents-containing-highlighting/153320/3 "2018-11-23T14:39:09Z")
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