How to disable Chrome spell check on INPUT with HTML or jQuery code?

Question

I have an input in an HTML page

<input id="SearchBox" type="text" value="" width="300px" 
       title="Search the card pool" autocomplete="off" maxlength="170">

I would like to switch this off with something like autospellcheck="off". Is there a way to achieve that?

Is there also a way to switch this off for Firefox?

score 34 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 19 '14 at 17:20

34

Use the spellcheck attribute:

<textarea spellcheck="false"></textarea>

edited Jan 19 '14 at 17:20

Mark Amery

answered Feb 16 '10 at 10:50

rahul

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 23 '10 at 12:21

5

add the attribute using JQuery $('.textarea_className').attr('spellcheck',false);

I was able to do this with JQUery so that I can return 0 errors for my XHTML validation

answered Jul 23 '10 at 12:21

wileez

1

Just cause you add a attribute via JS does not make it valid XHTML, change your doctype to html5 – GM-Script-Writer-62850 Jul 20 '13 at 17:29

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