Layout.spellcheckDefault

Background

Several Mozilla products have access to spell checking functionality. A recent patch allows this functionality to work in HTML text editing controls. The spell check function, when active, is accessible via the context menu of the text box.

For spell checking to work, the user must have the appropriate dictionary files installed.

This preference allows the spell check function to be enabled or disabled for multi-line and/or single-line edit controls, and supersedes layout.textarea.spellcheckDefault.

Possible values and their effects

0

Disable spellchecker.

1

Enable spellchecker for multi-line controls (e.g., <textarea>s). (Default in Firefox)

2

Enable spellchecker for multi-line controls and single-line controls.

Caveats

• This functionality is not yet available in any officially released versions of Mozilla Firefox. The browser must be built with --enable-extensions=default,spellcheck in configure.
• The dictionary used is dependent on the preference spellchecker.dictionary. If that preference is not set, you will be prompted to choose a dictionary each time you access the spell checker.

First checked in

2006-02-08 by Boris Zbarsky

Has an effect in

• Mozilla Firefox (trunk builds after 2006-02-08; 2.0b1 and above)

Related bugs

• Bug 151040 - Add access to Mac OS X global spelling checker
• Bug 302050 - Want realtime spell checking mechanism

Related preferences

• layout.textarea.spellcheckDefault
• spellchecker.dictionary

External links

• Localized Dictionaries for Mozilla Thunderbird