Turn off Chrome/Safari spell checking by HTML/css

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tillda picture tillda · Dec 24, 2010 · Viewed 49.5k times · Source

Is there a way for a web developer to turn off Chrome/Safari/WebKit's spellchecking on particular input or textarea elements? I mean either by special tag attribute or a proprietary CSS instruction.

There is a CSS instruction for turning off outlining of inputs so I thought that might also exist. I know how a user can do it.

Or, as a user, can I disable it for some particular domain?

Answer

Gaurav picture Gaurav · Dec 24, 2010

Yes, there is the HTML5 spellcheck attribute.

<textarea spellcheck="false"> or <input type="text" spellcheck="false">

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/editing.html#spelling-and-grammar-checking

Update: This is now supported in the latest versions of all browsers.

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