Spell Checker Fails

[shoesforindustry]

In Firefox Mac, there is no ''right-click' spell checker when using this field, reverting to textarea the spell checker is back?

[JonasDoebertin]

Isn't this the normal behavior? It's the same for me using Chrome with any "contentEditable" powered editor/input.

Spell check does work on regular textareas only, doesn't it?

[shoesforindustry]

I did think it used to work? I'm sure it did with other editors?

[1n3JgKl9pQ6cUMrW]

It's an interesting issue; the default WYSIWYG editor in Wordpress has spell-check, but something like CKEditor not - http://ckeditor.com/demo

[shoesforindustry]

Sadly yes, I love Visual Markdown, but my spelling is so bad...

[JonasDoebertin]

Hmmm. I guess this is something I have to investigate further. I'll leave this open for now.

[shoesforindustry]

Some editors seems to have their own spell checker, but I think using the default one is probably best?
I leave it in your capable hands...

[JonasDoebertin]

Just did a quick search and came to the following conclusion:

• Browser based spell checking does in fact work on input and contentEditable elements
• CodeMirror (what Visual Markdown Editor is based on) doesn't use contentEditable elements at all so there's no way of getting browser based spell checking to work
• One could integrate a custom, JS based, spell checking library with CodeMirror using overlays, but that would, probably, affect performance and file size massively

Related topic: codemirror/codemirror5#1017

[1n3JgKl9pQ6cUMrW]

Strange thing is that the manual refers to a spell-check option;

http://codemirror.net/1/manual.html

disableSpellcheck

Should the editor disable spell-checking on browsers that support it (Firefox 2+).
Default is true, since for most code spell-checking is useless.
Can be changed with the setSpellCheck(on) method.

I tried this option (setSpellCheck(on)) but it didn't work out for me.

There are also some plugins;

• http://nextstepwebs.github.io/codemirror-spell-checker/
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12343922/codemirror-with-spell-checker

[JonasDoebertin]

The manual link you posted is really outdated. It refers to an old version of CodeMirror from a time when it was using a contentEditable element.

[1n3JgKl9pQ6cUMrW]

Okay - I will not digg in it further more.

The most easy thing is to add a code-toggle button to the toolbar, which makes the textarea visible.

This one shows the typo's you made - so you can correct them and hide the raw-code by clicking on the button again.

Don't know this is helpfull...

[JonasDoebertin]

Seems like there is no solution to use the browsers default spell check with CodeMirror. Closing this for now.