{"id":9,"date":"2010-03-25T23:01:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T06:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesstechnologyassociates.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2016-01-16T16:33:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T23:33:48","slug":"enable-spell-checking-in-all-text-fields-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesstechnologyassociates.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/enable-spell-checking-in-all-text-fields-in-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable spell checking in all text entry in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Firefox<\/strong> has in-built spell check, but by default, this <strong>spell check<\/strong> is available only in Text area (usually multiple lines with scroll bar) entry fields. Text entry boxes (usually 1 line) will not show spelling mistakes. To activate spell check in text fields, open the configuration page of Firefox. Type <strong>about:config<\/strong> in address bar and press enter.\u00a0 In the filter text-box, type:\u00a0 <strong><em>layout.spellcheckDefault<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/firefox_spellcheck_config2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14\" title=\"firefox_spellcheck_config2\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/firefox_spellcheck_config2-300x79.png\" alt=\"Firefox Spellcheck Configuration\" width=\"300\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesstechnologyassociates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/firefox_spellcheck_config2-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/www.businesstechnologyassociates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/firefox_spellcheck_config2.png 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The default value of this preference is 1. Double click on this parameter and <strong>change the value to 2<\/strong>. Close configuration page and now open any page which has a text-box and check for wrong spelling.\u00a0 In case the spell check is still not enabled, right click on the text-box to pop-up the menu and check the <em>Check Spelling<\/em> menu item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox has in-built spell check, but by default, this spell check is available only in Text area (usually multiple lines with scroll bar) entry fields. Text entry boxes (usually 1 line) will not show spelling mistakes. To activate spell check in text fields, open the configuration page of Firefox. Type about:config in address bar and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstechnologyassociates.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/enable-spell-checking-in-all-text-fields-in-firefox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Enable spell checking in all text entry in Firefox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-technology","tag-firefox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesstechnologyassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesstechnologyassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesstechnologyassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesstechnologyassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesstechnologyassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesstechnologyassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesstechnologyassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesstechnologyassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesstechnologyassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesstechnologyassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}