diff --git a/components/rest/RestReferencePage.tsx b/components/rest/RestReferencePage.tsx
index 41f84db0f2e7..e19455c63c38 100644
--- a/components/rest/RestReferencePage.tsx
+++ b/components/rest/RestReferencePage.tsx
@@ -97,7 +97,10 @@ export const RestReferencePage = ({ restOperations }: StructuredContentT) => {
       never render anything. It always just return null. */}
       {loadClientsideRedirectExceptions && <ClientSideRedirectExceptions />}
       {lazyLoadHighlightJS && <ClientSideHighlightJS />}
-      <div className={cx(styles.restOperation, 'px-3 px-md-6 my-4 container-xl')}>
+      <div
+        className={cx(styles.restOperation, 'px-3 px-md-6 my-4 container-xl')}
+        data-search="article-body"
+      >
         <h1 className="mb-3">{title}</h1>
         {intro && (
           <Lead data-testid="lead" data-search="lead" className="markdown-body">
diff --git a/tests/rendering/rest.js b/tests/rendering/rest.js
index 559d38f36bcd..8b21d2ba1d0e 100644
--- a/tests/rendering/rest.js
+++ b/tests/rendering/rest.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { jest } from '@jest/globals'
+import { jest, test } from '@jest/globals'
 import slugger from 'github-slugger'
 
 import { getDOM } from '../helpers/e2etest.js'
@@ -63,6 +63,20 @@ describe('REST references docs', () => {
     const errorMessage = formatErrors(differences)
     expect(Object.keys(differences).length, errorMessage).toBe(0)
   })
+
+  test('REST reference pages have DOM markers needed for extracting search content', async () => {
+    // Pick an arbitrary REST reference page that is build from React
+    const $ = await getDOM('/en/rest/actions/artifacts')
+    const rootSelector = '[data-search=article-body]'
+    const $root = $(rootSelector)
+    expect($root.length).toBe(1)
+    // Within that, should expect a "lead" text.
+    // Note! Not all REST references pages have a lead. The one in this
+    // test does.
+    const leadSelector = '[data-search=lead] p'
+    const $lead = $root.find(leadSelector)
+    expect($lead.length).toBe(1)
+  })
 })
 
 function formatErrors(differences) {