diff --git a/tests/html/html.sh b/tests/html/html.sh
index 775c262f..ed4504b8 100755
--- a/tests/html/html.sh
+++ b/tests/html/html.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ initvariables $0
 recollq QMapConstIterator
 recollq Qtextedit Widget Provides Powerful Single-Page 
 recollq '"This is the Mysql reference manual"' 
+# Tests that the charset spec is correctly recognised inside badhtml.html
 recollq -a 'etonne badhtml' 
+# Tests field extraction/storage and indexing
+recollq -m -q "testfield:testfieldvalue" | egrep 'results|^text/html|^testfield ='
+
 ) 2> $mystderr | egrep -v '^Recoll query: ' > $mystdout
 
 diff -w ${myname}.txt $mystdout > $mydiffs 2>&1
diff --git a/tests/html/html.txt b/tests/html/html.txt
index 3c3ec7b0..20083753 100644
--- a/tests/html/html.txt
+++ b/tests/html/html.txt
@@ -7,3 +7,6 @@ text/html	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/html/mysqlmanualSmall
 text/html	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/html/mysqlmanual.html]	[MySQL 3.23, 4.0, 4.1 Reference Manual]	8136414	bytes	
 1 results
 text/html	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/html/badhtml.html]	[bla bla "bad quotes]	236	bytes	
+1 results
+text/html	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/html/htmlfield.html]	[htmlfield.html]	137	bytes	
+testfield = testfieldvalue