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The browser’s own Ctrl+F can’t search inside a textarea, so finding anything in a long block of HTML means scrolling and squinting. Canvas puts a real find and replace bar inside the HTML boxes themselves. This is the feature hand coders react to most.
How to open it
Press Ctrl+F or Cmd+F while your cursor is inside an HTML box. A find and replace bar appears and searches the actual contents of that box. Type what you’re after, a class name or a string like 8:14, and step through the matches.
What it supports
- Case sensitivity.
- Whole word matching.
- Regular expressions.
It works in Custom HTML blocks, the code editor view, the classic editor, and the theme’s own settings and per page boxes. It runs only while you’re editing, and every replacement is a normal, undoable edit, so it never touches your live site on its own.
