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Anonymous
April 6, 2009
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firefox inline spell checking doesn't work in the edit box...

  • April 6, 2009
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why is that? weird. speeeel [sic] checker in firefox should show up with a red underline when i'm typing input and misspell something. this is just a <textarea> so i don't see why it should be disabled. anything you guys can do to fix it?


thanks, dave

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    Curt Wrigley
    Curt Wrigley
    Inspiring
    April 6, 2009

    Browser spell checkers work in plain text fields.  The commnt box is a rich text app ergo the browser on board spell check doesnt work.  It will work if you switch the edit box from rt to html; for example.  Its ashame; i prefer the simple browser spell check oer the clunky rich text ver.

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    ChivertonT
    Inspiring
    April 6, 2009

    Swapping to the non-rich editor unfortunetly breaks line breaks in content :-(

    It is also not accurate to say Firefox can't spell check rich editors - I use TinyMCE on my own site, and because I've not *hijacked the right click menu* I can choose 'spellcheck' and it works fine.

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