# Any way to turn off highlighting in a search?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-turn-off-highlighting-in-a-search/308592
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**Created:** [June 16, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-turn-off-highlighting-in-a-search/308592 "2005-06-16T18:51:25Z")
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### Author:  [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-turn-off-highlighting-in-a-search/308592/1 "2005-06-16T18:51:25Z")
When I do a search and then click on one of the resulting threads, every **occurence** of one of the **words** in my **search** is highlighted in **red**.
Is there any way to turn this off? I know that I can wait until the page displays and then take the “&highlight=xxxxx” out of the URL, but that is a pain.
I haven’t seen anything in any of the search parameters to deal with this.
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-turn-off-highlighting-in-a-search/308592/2 "2005-06-16T19:06:41Z")
You can manually strip out the highlight from the link:
[…/showthread.php?p=3749266&highlight=graped#post3749266](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=3749266&highlight=graped#post3749266)
[…/showthread.php?p=3749266#post3749266](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=3749266#post3749266)
The two links are the same, except that “&highlight=graped” is missing from second version.
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-turn-off-highlighting-in-a-search/308592/3 "2005-06-16T19:09:41Z")
Then again, I see you already knew that. Nevermind.