How to turn off spell checking in CSS?

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Any attributes or some tweak to ignore the red-colored underline? or it's ignoreable due to browser settings?

`spellcheck="false"` https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interaction.html#spelling-and-grammar-checking — N.J.Dawson, Aug 30 '16 at 07:13
Perhaps a different problem, but should you try to make your search engine account for misspellings? Solutions just as elasticsearch and solr can do this automatically and are really fast. — jedifans, Aug 30 '16 at 07:14

score 20 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 30 '16 at 07:14

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It's not CSS but HTML: spellcheck="false" in your HTML element should do the trick. But I think Safari for example still draws a red line under it.

answered Aug 30 '16 at 07:14

mxlse

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 15 '19 at 16:17

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It's only possible to do this using HTML5. So you can add the spellcheck attribute to HTML element by using jquery. Try this

$("#textarea").attr("spellcheck", "false");

edited Oct 15 '19 at 16:17

War10ck

answered Oct 15 '19 at 12:08

Zolisa Welani

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Its not the better way, but if you want it, then use: – BratisLatas Nov 12 '19 at 10:58
This is probably something that should be added to the HTML directly, instead of dynamically using JS after the page has already been served to the user. – Martin Oct 31 '22 at 15:42

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