[[query-dsl-span-within-query]]
=== Span within query
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<titleabbrev>Span within</titleabbrev>
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Returns matches which are enclosed inside another span query. The span within
query maps to Lucene `SpanWithinQuery`. Here is an example:

[source,js]
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GET /_search
{
    "query": {
        "span_within" : {
            "little" : {
                "span_term" : { "field1" : "foo" }
            },
            "big" : {
                "span_near" : { 
                    "clauses" : [
                        { "span_term" : { "field1" : "bar" } },
                        { "span_term" : { "field1" : "baz" } }
                    ],
                    "slop" : 5,
                    "in_order" : true
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
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// CONSOLE

The `big` and `little` clauses can be any span type query. Matching
spans from `little` that are enclosed within `big` are returned.
