Check spelling (or not) in HTML input

11 July 2022

TIL: You can use the spellcheck attribute to instruct browsers that, if possible, an element should or should not be checked for spelling errors.

Demo: https://t.co/1DL7P6EXPD
TIL: https://t.co/JUR9AtvQ7q
MDN: https://t.co/Ghnwp769AL pic.twitter.com/4nMosG697K
— Manuel Matuzović (@mmatuzo) February 21, 2021

You can use the spellcheck attribute to control the browser's spellcheck capability for form inputs or HTML elements with contenteditable.

Docs on MDN.

Possible values:

<textarea spellcheck>
  Spelling is checked
</textarea>

<textarea spellcheck="false">
  Spelling is not checked
</textarea>

Check spelling (or not) in HTML input

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