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Spell check not staying enabled in certain fields?

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On a vBulletin forum I post on, there is a Quick Reply form at the bottom of threads. Spell checker is disabled in this form automatically. It works if I right click and tick "Check Spelling", but I was wondering if there is a way to make it always enabled in that field rather than having to set it to check every time. Thanks in advance.

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On a vBulletin forum I post on, there is a Quick Reply form at the bottom of threads. Spell checker is disabled in this form automatically. It works if I right click and tick "Check Spelling", but I was wondering if there is a way to make it always enabled in that field rather than having to set it to check every time. Thanks in advance. == URL of affected sites == http://

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Chris Ilias
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I'm guessing that it is a single-line text field. See http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/12/automatically-spell-checking-single-line-text-fields/

cor-el
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See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/layout.spellcheckDefault

Is that a normal text area like on this forum or a Rich Text area? It is possible that the website is disabling the spell checker.

See also https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Controlling_spell_checking_in_HTML_forms

AnonymousUser
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It's not a single line, I actually already changed the layout.spellcheckDefault value to 2 and fixed that. But it did nothing for the "Quick Reply" form.

Here is a screen shot of what I am talking about:

cor-el
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That looks like a rich text editor. Do you see a spellcheck="false" in the View > Page Source?

AnonymousUser
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cor-el: Nope, nothing like that in the page source. If it means anything, the spell check works fine on that form in Google Chrome, but not in Firefox.

Chris Ilias
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If it were the Firefox spell checker, you would see a "Languages" menu item as well. I think the website you are using is overriding the Firefox right-click menu. If you go to Tools > Options > Content. Then beside "Enable JavaScript" click on Advanced, then uncheck "Disable or replace context menus" Then restart Firefox, and try again, does it work?

cor-el
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Do you get the Language item in the right-click context menu in this demo? http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/

Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of your add-ons is causing your problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes). See Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems and Troubleshoot issues with plugins like Flash or Java to fix common Firefox problems