Closed Bug 516416 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Spell checker in input boxes

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

3.5 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: tim, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 The inbuilt spell checker is great. however it does not check HTML input boxes on websites. ie, type is text: <input size="30" type="text" /> unlike it checks textarea boxes. <textarea></textarea> Would it be possible for the spell checker to also check input boxes. Reproducible: Always
Available as a hidden pref the default is only to spell check multiline textboxes http://kb.mozillazine.org/Layout.spellcheckDefault
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Version: unspecified → 3.5 Branch
Right click on the field then select "Check Spelling" to enable it for that field. If it were on by default for all small boxes it'd get too many false positives (i.e. usernames). Just turn it on when you need it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
thanks guys, both solutions are very helpful. hidden pref is what I have done, and I would recommend it to anyone else.
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