diff --git a/changedetectionio/templates/edit.html b/changedetectionio/templates/edit.html
index c7ac3812..fa502eee 100644
--- a/changedetectionio/templates/edit.html
+++ b/changedetectionio/templates/edit.html
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ Unavailable") }}
                 </fieldset>
                 <fieldset>
                     <div class="pure-control-group">
-                        {{ render_field(form.extract_text, rows=5, placeholder="\d+ online") }}
+                        {{ render_field(form.extract_text, rows=5, placeholder="Example: /\d+ online/") }}
                         <span class="pure-form-message-inline">
                     <ul>
                         <li>Extracts text in the final output (line by line) after other filters using regular expressions or string match;