{"id":120,"date":"2006-12-12T18:58:28","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T23:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2006\/12\/automatically-spell-checking-single-line-text-fields\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T16:06:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T20:06:07","slug":"automatically-spell-checking-single-line-text-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2006\/12\/automatically-spell-checking-single-line-text-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatically spell checking single line text fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getfirefox.com\/\">Firefox 2<\/a> users may have noticed that the built-in spell checker does not automatically check single-line text fields, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google.com<\/a>. Instead, you need to open the context menu (right-click), and choose <q>Spell check this field<\/q>. With multi-line text fields (for example, the <q>Detailed Comments<\/q> box at <a href=\"http:\/\/hendrix.mozilla.org\/\">hendrix.mozilla.org<\/a>), the spell checker is automatically turned on.<\/p>\n<p>To get the spell checker to automatically check all text fields, enter <strong>about:config<\/strong> in the address bar. In the resulting page, search for the preference <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #333399\">layout.spellcheckDefault<\/span>.<br \/>\nDouble-click on it, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/support\/firefox\/edit#aboutconfig\">change the value<\/a> to <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #333399\">2<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox 2 users may have noticed that the built-in spell checker does not automatically check single-line text fields, such as Google.com. Instead, you need to open the context menu (right-click), and choose Spell check this field. With multi-line text fields&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2006\/12\/automatically-spell-checking-single-line-text-fields\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}