From 9c06ef7e9dc210759c2a7708c92daa03c1581c9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alejandro Hernandez <azure.satellite@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 11:27:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add ability to specify elastic results highlight tags

---
 .changeset/eighty-games-burn.md                              | 5 +++++
 .../src/example-types/results/highlighting/search.js         | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .changeset/eighty-games-burn.md

diff --git a/.changeset/eighty-games-burn.md b/.changeset/eighty-games-burn.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9189f1156
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/eighty-games-burn.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'contexture-elasticsearch': minor
+---
+
+Change default elastic highlight tags from b to em
diff --git a/packages/provider-elasticsearch/src/example-types/results/highlighting/search.js b/packages/provider-elasticsearch/src/example-types/results/highlighting/search.js
index abbb4bcfa..39b46fbd4 100644
--- a/packages/provider-elasticsearch/src/example-types/results/highlighting/search.js
+++ b/packages/provider-elasticsearch/src/example-types/results/highlighting/search.js
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ import {
 } from './response.js'
 
 let tags = {
-  pre: '<b class="search-highlight">',
-  post: '</b>',
+  pre: '<em class="search-highlight">',
+  post: '</em>',
 }
 
 export let searchWithHighlights = (node, search, schema) => async (body) => {

From 8049cd570161f1f196314a93ea0931c325632a91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alejandro Hernandez <azure.satellite@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 14:57:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Change em to span

---
 .changeset/eighty-games-burn.md                               | 2 +-
 .../src/example-types/results/highlighting/search.js          | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.changeset/eighty-games-burn.md b/.changeset/eighty-games-burn.md
index 9189f1156..117230576 100644
--- a/.changeset/eighty-games-burn.md
+++ b/.changeset/eighty-games-burn.md
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 'contexture-elasticsearch': minor
 ---
 
-Change default elastic highlight tags from b to em
+Change default elastic highlight tags from b to span
diff --git a/packages/provider-elasticsearch/src/example-types/results/highlighting/search.js b/packages/provider-elasticsearch/src/example-types/results/highlighting/search.js
index 39b46fbd4..71528c83f 100644
--- a/packages/provider-elasticsearch/src/example-types/results/highlighting/search.js
+++ b/packages/provider-elasticsearch/src/example-types/results/highlighting/search.js
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ import {
 } from './response.js'
 
 let tags = {
-  pre: '<em class="search-highlight">',
-  post: '</em>',
+  pre: '<span class="search-highlight">',
+  post: '</span>',
 }
 
 export let searchWithHighlights = (node, search, schema) => async (body) => {