Using Firefox’s Spellchecker In Every Field As Opposed To Just The Text Area
There are probably many reasons why this setting isn’t on by default in Firefox, but IMO it definitely should be. At this point and time, Firefox’s spellchecker only checks any of the larger defined areas of a form, typically referred to as the text area. For those of us writing daily blog posts and needing this same feature in places such as the subject line of our posts, spelling is most definitely needed in every place of a form. Here’s how to correct it:
Share This | Posted: June 25th, 2007
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June 25th, 2007 20:28
nice tip, it is useful to have spell checker in other form fields
June 25th, 2007 22:30
wow.. i didn’t know about this before.
thanks for the tips.
nice
June 25th, 2007 23:32
I was looking for something like this. See that’s why I come here everyday haha.
June 25th, 2007 23:45
Good to hear you guys needed it. I’m sure there are plenty of others out there too.
June 26th, 2007 00:19
nice find listikal.. really useful tip..even I’m of the opinion that it should be made default by Firefox..
June 26th, 2007 07:46
A nice trick, easy to implement and powerful.
Gili
June 26th, 2007 08:47
Yeah… This is my life saver, actually…. Since English is not my primary one, I tend to do mistake when typing some vocabs. Firefox always warn me with a red line below the word that I type wrongly. It make Firefox my personal English vocab teacher!