How TO - Disable Spellcheck for Forms

Learn how to turn off spell checking (grammar correction) for form elements.

Turn Off Spellcheck

By default, when you enter text inside a form element, you will see a red underline below words that are not spelled right/incorrect. However, you can use spellcheck="false" to turn off spell checking:

Example

<input type="text" spellcheck="false">


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

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You can also turn of spell checking for the whole form:

Example

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Tip: Go to our HTML Form Tutorial to learn more about HTML Forms.

Tip: Go to our HTML spellcheck Attribute Reference to learn more about the global spellcheck attribute.

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