You can change the excerpts highlight tags using something like this:

  Model.search 'foo',
    :excerpt_options => {:before_match => '<em>', :after_match => '</em>'}

Just make those empty strings if you don't want any highlighting of matches at 
all.

-- 
Pat

On 13/10/2012, at 10:28 AM, Taiwo wrote:

> were u able to remove the span tags that show up when using excertps??
> 
> Thanks
> 
> taiwo
> 
> On Wednesday, July 6, 2011 3:30:46 PM UTC-4, Sjors wrote:
> Hi Pat, 
> 
> I wasn't using wildcards, because I want it to return partial matches 
> without the user typing "*" (especially with autocomplete). So I only 
> set: 
>  :min_infix_len => 1 
> 
> After adding 
>   :enable_star => 1 
> all search results have excerpts, so that's good. 
> 
> As a workaround, I can simply add "*" to all search queries in the 
> controller so the user doesn't have to type "*". 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Sjors 
> 
> On 1 jul, 21:14, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > Hi Sjors 
> > 
> > This is now possible in Sphinx - and should be fine with Thinking Sphinx 
> > provided you're using wildcards in your query. For example: 
> > 
> >   ThinkingSphinx.search('pow*').first.last_name #=> "Power" 
> >   ThinkingSphinx.search('pow*').first.excerpts.last_name #=> "<span 
> > class=\"match\">Power</span>" 
> > 
> > How are you using it where it's not working? 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Pat 
> > 
> > On 01/07/2011, at 8:09 AM, Sjors wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > I was wondering if this problem is still around or if I'm doing 
> > > something wrong. In 2009 Pat wrote [0] that you can't get excerpts on 
> > > partial matches, that this was due to a "bug" in Sphinx itself and 
> > > that this might get fixed in the near future. 
> > 
> > > I'm using the latest version of Sphinx from SVN and thinking-sphinx 
> > > 2.0.5. I can get excerpts on full word matches, but not on partial 
> > > word matches. 
> > 
> > > Cheers, 
> > 
> > > Sjors 
> > 
> > > [0] 
> > >http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx/browse_thread/thread/b... 
> > 
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