Found the issue, to use FastVectorHighlighter, the pre and post tag syntax are different
<str name="hl.tag.pre"></str> <str name="hl.tag.post"></str> This worked out as expected. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Highlighting-simple-pre-and-simple-post-values-getting-ignored-tp4168657p4168663.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.