Inline Disabling of Firefox Spellcheck?

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

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

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Sweet, works in Chrome on input textboxes too.

Answer 5

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

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