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problems with spell check built in to ff 23

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I am finding, and have verified via these forums, that text boxes on web sites that are a single line are ignored by the spell checker. I work on a website, no I don't administrate it, that has an entry field that is a single line. this field is the only one that I have issues with as it does not spell check. anyone know of a way to adjust or replace the spell checker so it will see this field as well. thanks in advance.

I am finding, and have verified via these forums, that text boxes on web sites that are a single line are ignored by the spell checker. I work on a website, no I don't administrate it, that has an entry field that is a single line. this field is the only one that I have issues with as it does not spell check. anyone know of a way to adjust or replace the spell checker so it will see this field as well. thanks in advance.

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Did you try to set the pref to 2?

That should give you a "Check Spelling" check box and a Languages menu in the right-click context menu of a single line input field.

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Update to firefox 23.0.1 and the issue should be resolved.

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Sorry I was not clearer but I am using that version.

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The default is to enable spell check for multi line text areas only.

See:

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that would work if I was writing the page but I am using a page someone else wrote. thanks for the help though.

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Suluhisho teule

Did you try to set the pref to 2?

That should give you a "Check Spelling" check box and a Languages menu in the right-click context menu of a single line input field.

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I just found what you were talking about in the config file. I apologize I misunderstood what you were talking about. it works great now. thanks again