# Highlight mesh in Paraview

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/highlight-mesh-in-paraview/9616
**Category:** Web Support
**Created:** [May 12, 2022, 11:17am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/highlight-mesh-in-paraview/9616 "2022-05-12T11:17:50Z")
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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2022, 9:44am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/highlight-mesh-in-paraview/9616/6 "2022-05-16T09:44:08Z")

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You need to provide a Selection query to select, the doc is here:

[https://kitware.github.io/paraview-docs/latest/python/paraview.simple.html?highlight=selectcells#paraview.simple.SelectCells](https://kitware.github.io/paraview-docs/latest/python/paraview.simple.html?highlight=selectcells#paraview.simple.SelectCells)

Example usage here:

> [@paraview.simple.SelectCells sellect multiple cell](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-simple-selectcells-sellect-multiple-cell/4153/2):
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> The following should work: # create a query selection paraview.simple.QuerySelect(QueryString='((id == 1) | (id == 2) | (id == 3))', FieldType='CELL') The easiest way to figure this out is to use the Python tracing capabilities: Tools \> Start Trace, check Show Incremental Trace in the Trace Options dialog, and then use the Find Data dialog to do the query.

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