[[query-dsl-span-within-query]]
=== Span Within Query

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