Enable browser spellcheck

James Michaels1
Giga Expert

I added a field to the incident form but it doesn't have spellcheck enabled. I tried with various different field types but it doesn't seem to matter which type I use. I looked up ServiceNow spell check and found references in a few places to ServiceNow having enabled spell check on "...applicable fields..." but I'd like to be able to turn it on myself. I found a few possibilities but it looks like I'd need to mess with the field HTML directly which is something you aren't supposed to do. Does anyone else either know or have some idea how to enable spellcheck on a field?

My thoughts were to try using either g_form.getControl() or g_form.getElement() and then setting the spellcheck property of the field to true. It seems to be supported pretty well in browsers but I'm not sure how well that would work in SNow. http://caniuse.com/#search=spellcheck

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Seems like we were on the right track. Adding spell checking on a per field basis isn't supported. They did open an enhancement request for it though so hopefully we'll see it sooner than later. In the interim I'll probably just mess with the DOM.


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Ok thanks James. Getting an enhancement request raised is good news though!