> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://en.blog.themarfa.name/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# How to activate search on the page with Regex support
- URL: https://en.blog.themarfa.name/how-to-activate-search-on-the-page-with-regex-support/
- Published: 2020-07-13T06:37:01.000Z
- Updated: 2020-07-13T06:37:54.000Z
- Description: Regex Search adds in-page search with regular expressions support.
- Author: Konstantin Dokuchaev
- Tags: Chrome, Firefox, Regex Search

When looking at the web browser I often lack the ability to write a simple regular expression. Because the conventional support "\*" or "?" to denote any or some symbols would be greatly improved built-in search.

*This is autotranslated version of [this post](https://blog.themarfa.name/kak-aktivirovat-poisk-na-stranitsie-s/).*

**Regex Search** adds in-page search with regular expressions support.

If you don't know what a regular expression is a special language search for text where some characters of the desired text can be replaced by special meta-characters (mask).

![](https://blog.themarfa.name/content/images/2020/07/image-37.png)

[Download for Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-regex-search/bpelaihoicobbkgmhcbikncnpacdbknn) | [Download for Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/regexsearch/)