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Wilco
Wilco

Reputation: 33356

Inline Disabling of Firefox Spellcheck?

I researched this a while ago and can't remember how to do it. I want to be able to prevent Firefox from running it's spell-checking functionality on certain input fields from within the page. I know it's possible but can't remember how to set it up.

Upvotes: 31

Views: 8137

Answers (4)

Wileez
Wileez

Reputation: 51

add the attribute using JQuery $('.textarea_className').attr('spellcheck',false);

This will allow you to return a valid XHTML mark up. =)

Upvotes: 5

david
david

Reputation:

The downside of this is that the W3 strict validator gives - Attribute "spellcheck" is not a valid attribute. Bad news for those of us with OCD that love to see 0 errors in validating our sites.

Upvotes: 2

mth
mth

Reputation:

The "spellcheck" attribute is currently an extra feature available only in Firefox, but it is being considered for inclusion in HTML5.

Upvotes: 5

Wilco
Wilco

Reputation: 33356

Talk about having a big "duh" moment! I found the answer after some trial & error:

<textarea spellcheck="false"></textarea>

Upvotes: 49

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