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Issue with escapeHTML and Search Highlighting

TLDR Digamber is having trouble with the search highlighting not working when escapeHTML is set to false. Kishore Nallan and Jason try to help but the issue remains unresolved.

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Dec 14, 2021 (23 months ago)

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Digamber

10:32 AM

My main issue is that whenever i set escapteHTML: false - the highlighting isn’t working

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Kishore Nallan

10:33 AM

Can you show a sample record and the response?

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Digamber

10:46 AM

instantSearch.addWidgets([
            searchBox({
                container: searchBoxEl[0],
                autofocus: true,
                placeholder: 'Search...',
                showSubmit: false,
                showReset: false,
            }),
            configure({
                hitsPerPage: config.per_page,
            }),
            hits({
                container: defaultSearchResultEl[0],
                escapeHTML: false,
                templates: {
                    item: `
      <h2>
        {{ __hitIndex }}:
        {{#helpers.highlight}}{ "attribute": "post_content" }{{/helpers.highlight}}
      </h2>
      <p>{{ post_description }}</p>
    `,
                },
            }),

        ]);

10:47

Digamber

10:47 AM

This is the code i used

10:47

Digamber

10:47 AM

the result is

10:48

Digamber

10:48 AM

10:49

Digamber

10:49 AM

Whereas if i set escapeHTML to false - it works as expected.

10:50

Digamber

10:50 AM

As you can see I need to escape html as the content is html

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Kishore Nallan

11:43 AM

Ok I will run this through another pair of eyes, for help.

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Digamber

11:47 AM

Thanks Kishore appreciate it

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Jason

06:35 PM

Digamber could you try using JS instead of liquid like this and see if that helps: https://github.com/typesense/showcase-linux-commits-search/blob/82267196edc95f3f737af9d8374d0cf720892910/src/app.js#L191

Dec 15, 2021 (23 months ago)

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Digamber

04:21 AM

Jason no luck i’m still having the same issue

04:48

Digamber

04:48 AM

i had to strip the html before entry into document - for my use case it currenlty works - but was wondering if having html would be bennefitial

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