diff --git a/docs/topics/release-notes.md b/docs/topics/release-notes.md
index 867b138bf..c2fe3f64d 100644
--- a/docs/topics/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/topics/release-notes.md
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 >
 > — Eric S. Raymond, [The Cathedral and the Bazaar][cite].
 
+## Master
+
+* Bugfix: Fix `RegexField` to work with `BrowsableAPIRenderer`
+
 ## 2.1.6
 
 **Date**: 23rd Nov 2012
diff --git a/rest_framework/fields.py b/rest_framework/fields.py
index 482a3d485..ea0667f50 100644
--- a/rest_framework/fields.py
+++ b/rest_framework/fields.py
@@ -817,6 +817,7 @@ class EmailField(CharField):
 
 class RegexField(CharField):
     type_name = 'RegexField'
+    form_field_class = forms.RegexField
 
     def __init__(self, regex, max_length=None, min_length=None, *args, **kwargs):
         super(RegexField, self).__init__(max_length, min_length, *args, **kwargs)
diff --git a/rest_framework/renderers.py b/rest_framework/renderers.py
index 25a32baae..1220bca10 100644
--- a/rest_framework/renderers.py
+++ b/rest_framework/renderers.py
@@ -320,6 +320,9 @@ class BrowsableAPIRenderer(BaseRenderer):
             if getattr(v, 'choices', None) is not None:
                 kwargs['choices'] = v.choices
 
+            if getattr(v, 'regex', None) is not None:
+                kwargs['regex'] = v.regex
+
             if getattr(v, 'widget', None):
                 widget = copy.deepcopy(v.widget)
                 kwargs['widget'] = widget