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Sometimes the spell checker is unnecessary, captchas, usernames, emails, etc. Is there a way disable it on some text inputs/text areas?

ergosys
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Ben Shelock
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As noted by my buddy Jonathan Stark, you should be able to use attributes like autocorrect and autocomplete to achieve the effect you're looking for: 

<input type="text" placeholder="My Field" name="myfield"
    autocapitalize="none" autocorrect="off" autocomplete="off" />

Just tested in OS4 and it's working.

UPDATE: As of iOS5 on and off values in autocapitalize have been deprecated. Use none to completely disable automatic capitalization.

gffbss
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David Kaneda
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    Most of the time, I don't turn off autocomplete so that the user can still use the "save password" feature of their browser. – fedmich Jun 26 '14 at 13:34
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Actually there is literally a spell check attribute in HTML5:

<textarea spellcheck="false">

Re: http://blog.whatwg.org/the-road-to-html-5-spellchecking

Browser support is, of course, limited.

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