About this tool
Free Find and Replace Text Online
Find and Replace Text Online is a free browser-based text replacer for editing repeated words, phrases, names, URLs, codes, dates, and formatting patterns without changing each occurrence manually. Paste your text, enter what you want to find, provide the replacement, and choose whether to update the first match or every match. The tool shows how many matches are present before you make the change, so you can review the scope of the replacement. Use normal mode for straightforward text changes such as updating a company name, correcting a repeated spelling mistake, changing an old URL, removing an unwanted phrase, or replacing a placeholder throughout a document. Normal mode treats punctuation and special symbols literally. This means a search such as example.com is matched as written rather than interpreting the period as a pattern command. Leave the Replace with field empty when you want to remove the matched text instead of substituting another value. Case-sensitive matching is useful when capitalization changes meaning or when only a specific version should be updated. With case sensitivity off, searches can match variations such as Report, report, and REPORT. The original text outside each replacement remains unchanged. Enable Whole words only when a short search term should not be replaced inside a longer word. For example, finding cat as a whole word can avoid changing the same letters inside category. The Replace all matches option updates every match in a single action. Turn it off to replace only the first matching occurrence while leaving later matches untouched. This is useful when you want to make a controlled edit, inspect the result, and continue manually. Match and replacement counters make it easier to confirm whether the operation affected the expected amount of text. Regular-expression mode is intended for advanced pattern matching. It can find flexible structures such as repeated spaces, selected number formats, simple identifiers, or text captured in groups. Regex replacement supports JavaScript replacement references such as $1 for the first captured group. An invalid pattern is blocked and explained before replacement, preventing a malformed expression from breaking the editor. Because regular expressions can match more text than expected, review the match count and output carefully before using the result in an important document. This tool is useful for writers correcting terminology, developers updating snippets, SEO teams changing links or metadata drafts, editors standardizing names, support teams revising templates, and anyone cleaning copied text. It works with plain text and preserves line breaks. It is not a rich-text editor, so styling from word processors is not retained in the output. All matching and replacement operations happen locally in your browser. Your pasted text does not need to be uploaded to WebToolsEdge for processing. When the updated text looks correct, copy it to your clipboard or download it as a plain TXT file.
Working with a list rather than a document? Clean repeated entries with the Duplicate Line Remover, then organize the result using Sort Lines Online. Browse all Text Tools for related editing workflows.
Step by step
How to use Find and Replace Text Online
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Paste or type the original text into the input area.
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Enter the exact word, phrase, or pattern you want to find.
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Enter replacement text, or leave the replacement field empty to remove each match.
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Choose replace all or first match, then set case-sensitive, whole-word, or regular-expression options as needed.
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Review the live match count and correct any invalid regular-expression warning.
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Click Replace text, inspect the updated output, then copy or download the result.
Highlights
Find and Replace Text Online features
Find and replace words or complete phrases
Replace the first match or every match
Case-sensitive and case-insensitive matching
Whole-word matching option
Regular-expression search with capture-group replacement
Live match count and replaced-match summary
Clear invalid-regex error feedback
Remove text using an empty replacement
Copy output or download a TXT file
Private browser-based text processing
Questions
Find and Replace Text Online FAQ
How do I find and replace text online?+
Paste your text, enter a word or phrase in Find, enter the new value in Replace with, and click Replace text. The updated version appears in the output area.
Can I replace every occurrence of a word at once?+
Yes. Keep Replace all matches enabled to update every match, or turn it off to replace only the first occurrence.
How can I remove a word or phrase instead of replacing it?+
Enter the text you want to remove in the Find field and leave Replace with empty. Each selected match will be removed.
What does Whole words only do?+
It limits matching to complete words. For example, cat can match the standalone word cat without changing the same letters inside category.
Can the tool perform case-sensitive replacement?+
Yes. Enable Case sensitive when uppercase and lowercase letters must match exactly. Leave it off to match capitalization variations.
Does the text replacer support regular expressions?+
Yes. Enable Regular expression to use JavaScript-style patterns. Regex replacement also supports capture references such as $1.
Why is the Replace text button disabled?+
The tool needs original text and a nonempty Find value. It also disables replacement when the entered regular expression is invalid.
Is my text uploaded or saved?+
No. Finding, replacing, copying, and TXT generation run locally in your browser.