How TO - Disable Spellcheck for Forms

Learn how to turn off spell checking (grammar correction) for form elements.

Turn Off Spellcheck

By default, when you enter text inside a form element, you will see a red underline below words that are not spelled right/incorrect. However, you can use spellcheck="false" to turn off spell checking:

Example

  <!-- for inputs -->
<input type="text"
  spellcheck="false">

<!-- for
  textareas -->
<textarea spellcheck="false"></textarea>

You can also turn of spell checking for the whole form:

Example

  <form spellcheck="false">

Tip: Go to the HTML Form Tutorial to learn more about HTML Forms.

Tip: Go to the HTML spellcheck Attribute Reference to learn more about the global spellcheck attribute.