Disable Spell check for HTML fields

Anish Reghu · ‎10-18-2020

How to disable the spell check that happens by default for all HTML fields.

System Localization mentions default spell checker as English, but doesn't have a option none. The expectation is that spell check should not happen on the HTML field while I am editing in the HTML field. I am writing articles in the Knowledge article and if I copy paste scripts, these spell checkers are annoying.

Anish Reghu · ‎01-05-2023

Navigate to the Dictionary record for the desired language: In ServiceNow, go to System Definition > Dictionary and search for the dictionary record for the language you want to disable spell check for.
Edit the dictionary record: Click on the dictionary record to open it in edit mode, and then scroll down to the "Content Fields" section.
Find the "Article body" field: In the "Content Fields" section, find the "Article body" field and click the "Edit" button next to it.
Disable spell check: In the "Edit Content Field" dialog that appears, uncheck the "Spell Check" checkbox and click the "Update" button.

This will disable spell check for the Article body field on Knowledge articles for the specified language. Note that this change will only affect new articles created after the change has been made; it will not retroactively disable spell check for existing articles.

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Ankur Bawiskar · ‎10-18-2020

Hi,

I believe by default you can enable or disable spell check for journal fields

Disable or enable spell checking on a journal field

can you try to add this attribute to that html field and check once

spell_check=false

HTML editor has it's own spellcheck mechanism so I doubt this might work

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Ankur

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Ankur
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Anish Reghu · ‎10-18-2020

You are right, it doesn't work. Attribute - Serializer - with value - com.glide.script.TranslatedTextXMLSerializer governs the Translated HTML field. Just saying, if something could be scripted in that context to disable.

Mark Roethof · ‎10-18-2020

Hi there again 🙂

Is this for one field? Or all? And I assume on the Platform UI?

If one field, Platform UI: go to the table (for example on Incident for, Configure > Table) and:

If my answer helped you in any way, please then mark it as helpful.

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Anish Reghu · ‎10-18-2020

Yes, it is just for one field - Article body - on the Knowledge article table.

But the default value of Spell checker on the field is already false and it doesn't seem to help.