Javascript Spell Checker

[jcage]

I'm looking for a minimal impact spell checker to use on a work site
form. Nothing real fancy but it would be nice to get the red
'squiggle' line below the mis-spelled word much as I am at this moment
while filling out this post.

Anyone know of a simple code that I can include (primarily for my
textarea box)??? I tried the open source one at http://spellerpages.sourceforge.net/
but couldn't get it running and quite a few questions at their forum
location hadn't been answered so...

Any help is very much appreciated.

John

 

[Tom]

I'm looking for a minimal impact spell checker to use on a work site
form. Nothing real fancy but it would be nice to get the red
'squiggle' line below the mis-spelled word much as I am at this moment
while filling out this post.

Anyone know of a simple code that I can include (primarily for my
textarea box)??? I tried the open source one at
http://spellerpages.sourceforge.net/
but couldn't get it running and quite a few questions at their forum
location hadn't been answered so...

Any help is very much appreciated.

John

Since Javascript is client-based, I don't think you'll find much specifically
based on Javascript. You'll probably need some server based software, like a
dictionary file, and a language like PHP to process the requests.

Years back I had installed a spell checker for a PHP program (PHPBBS). From what
I remember I had to install some Unix based software (aspell or pspell) in order
to get a PHP based program to connect and use the dictionary files. Javascript
is probably more for cosmetics, like managing the web browser windows and the
dynamic content in those.

Tom

 

[Jeremy]

I'm looking for a minimal impact spell checker to use on a work site
form. Nothing real fancy but it would be nice to get the red
'squiggle' line below the mis-spelled word much as I am at this moment
while filling out this post.

Anyone know of a simple code that I can include (primarily for my
textarea box)??? I tried the open source one at http://spellerpages.sourceforge.net/
but couldn't get it running and quite a few questions at their forum
location hadn't been answered so...

Any help is very much appreciated.

John

There are AJAX-based spell-checking solutions out there (a comprehensive
dictionary file would be too large to use client-side at this point),
but a much easier solution would just be to let your users handle this
for themselves. AFAIK, the latest versions of essentially every browser
(Firefox, IE, Opera, Safari) all have this capability built-in.

Jeremy