Disable spell-checking on HTML textfields

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Can I somehow disable spell-checking on HTML textfields  as seen in e g  Safari

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If you have created your HTML element dynamically, you'll want to disable the attribute via JS. There is a little trap however:

When setting elem.contentEditable you can use either the boolean false or the string "false". But when you set elem.spellcheck, you can only use the boolean - for some reason. Your options are thus:

elem.spellcheck = false;

Or the option Mac provided in his answer:

elem.setAttribute("spellcheck", "false"); // Both string and boolean work here.

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Update  As suggested by a commenter  additional credit to How can I disable the spell checker on text inputs on the iPhone   use this to handle all desktop and mobile browsers    lt tag autocomplete  off  autocorrect  off  autocapitalize  off  spellcheck  false   gt    Original answer  Javascript cannot override user settings  so unless you use another mechanism other than textfields  this is not  or shouldn t be  possible

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While specifying spellcheck  quot false quot  in the  lt  tag  gt  will certainly disable that feature  it s handy to be able to toggle that functionality on and off as needed after the page has loaded  So here s a non-jQuery way to set the spellcheck attribute programmatically     lt textarea id  quot my-ta quot  spellcheck  quot whatever quot  gt abcd dcba lt  textarea gt     function setSpellCheck  mode         var myTextArea   document getElementById   quot my-ta quot              myTextAreaValue   myTextArea value           myTextArea value           myTextArea setAttribute   quot spellcheck quot   String  mode          myTextArea value   myTextAreaValue      myTextArea focus         setSpellCheck  true    setSpellCheck   false      The function argument may be either boolean or string  No need to loop through the textarea contents  we just cut  n paste what s there  and then set focus  Tested in blink engines  Chrome ium   Edge  etc

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For Grammarly you can use    lt textarea data-gramm  false    gt

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For Grammarly you can use    lt textarea data-gramm  false    gt

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Yes  use spellcheck  false   as defined by HTML5  for example    lt textarea spellcheck  false  gt           lt  textarea gt

User · Answer

If you have created your HTML element dynamically, you'll want to disable the attribute via JS. There is a little trap however:

When setting elem.contentEditable you can use either the boolean false or the string "false". But when you set elem.spellcheck, you can only use the boolean - for some reason. Your options are thus:

elem.spellcheck = false;

Or the option Mac provided in his answer:

elem.setAttribute("spellcheck", "false"); // Both string and boolean work here.

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The following code snippet disables it for all textarea and input type text  elements    function          function disableSpellCheck             let selector    input type text   textarea           let textFields   document querySelectorAll selector            textFields forEach              function  field   currentIndex   listObj                    field spellcheck   false                                      disableSpellCheck

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Update  As suggested by a commenter  additional credit to How can I disable the spell checker on text inputs on the iPhone   use this to handle all desktop and mobile browsers    lt tag autocomplete  off  autocorrect  off  autocapitalize  off  spellcheck  false   gt    Original answer  Javascript cannot override user settings  so unless you use another mechanism other than textfields  this is not  or shouldn t be  possible

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The following code snippet disables it for all textarea and input type text  elements    function          function disableSpellCheck             let selector    input type text   textarea           let textFields   document querySelectorAll selector            textFields forEach              function  field   currentIndex   listObj                    field spellcheck   false                                      disableSpellCheck

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An IFrame WILL  trigger  the spell checker  if it has content-editable set to true  just as a textfield  at least in Chrome

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An IFrame WILL  trigger  the spell checker  if it has content-editable set to true  just as a textfield  at least in Chrome

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Update  As suggested by a commenter  additional credit to How can I disable the spell checker on text inputs on the iPhone   use this to handle all desktop and mobile browsers    lt tag autocomplete  off  autocorrect  off  autocapitalize  off  spellcheck  false   gt    Original answer  Javascript cannot override user settings  so unless you use another mechanism other than textfields  this is not  or shouldn t be  possible

User · Answer

Yes  use spellcheck  false   as defined by HTML5  for example    lt textarea spellcheck  false  gt           lt  textarea gt

User · Answer

While specifying spellcheck  quot false quot  in the  lt  tag  gt  will certainly disable that feature  it s handy to be able to toggle that functionality on and off as needed after the page has loaded  So here s a non-jQuery way to set the spellcheck attribute programmatically     lt textarea id  quot my-ta quot  spellcheck  quot whatever quot  gt abcd dcba lt  textarea gt     function setSpellCheck  mode         var myTextArea   document getElementById   quot my-ta quot              myTextAreaValue   myTextArea value           myTextArea value           myTextArea setAttribute   quot spellcheck quot   String  mode          myTextArea value   myTextAreaValue      myTextArea focus         setSpellCheck  true    setSpellCheck   false      The function argument may be either boolean or string  No need to loop through the textarea contents  we just cut  n paste what s there  and then set focus  Tested in blink engines  Chrome ium   Edge  etc

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Update  As suggested by a commenter  additional credit to How can I disable the spell checker on text inputs on the iPhone   use this to handle all desktop and mobile browsers    lt tag autocomplete  off  autocorrect  off  autocapitalize  off  spellcheck  false   gt    Original answer  Javascript cannot override user settings  so unless you use another mechanism other than textfields  this is not  or shouldn t be  possible

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