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# Highlight

> Additional information regarding the 'Highlight' response field in Loqate APIs

<Note>This information relates to the 'Highlight' response field, which is returned when making a [Capture Find](/api-reference/address-capture/find) or [Geocoding Typeahead](/api-reference/store-finder/geocoding-typeahead) API call.</Note>

The 'Highlight' field provides a list of number ranges showing which characters in the `Text` and `Description` fields match the user's search term.
This can be used to determine which characters should be highlighted in bold in the search field, to give the user a visual representation of what's being searched.

<Note>If a Container Id is included in a Capture Find request, Highlight will be empty. It will be populated for any other request.</Note>

## Considerations

* Highlight ranges are expressed as 'X-Y' where highlighting should start from character position X and go **up to but not including** character position Y

* Characters start from position 0

* Commas separate numbers within a single field, while a semicolon separates numbers in `Text` from numbers in `Description`

* Spaces are counted as characters

* If no characters in `Text` should be highlighted, the string will start with a semicolon

## Example

Take this example:

```JSON theme={null}
"Highlight": "0-4,7-8; 1-4",
```

This indicates that characters 0, 1, 2, 3 and 7 in the `Text` field should be highlighted, and also characters 1, 2 and 3 in the `Description` field.