Does spell check in HTML5 support all languages?

Question

I would like to know whether spell check in HTML5 support all languages. Is there any reference available for the same anywhere in the internet ?

Thanks, Aromal

Answer 1

The spellcheck attribute is used to inform the browser whether or not it should apply spell-checking to an input element (this defaults to false).

<textarea spellcheck="true"></textarea>

You can identify a language which the browser should use to spell-check an element:

<textarea lang="en"></textarea>

If the user does not have a dictionary installed for that language then the spell check is disabled for that element.

So to answer your question - spellcheck itself does not support any languages, it is a flag to identify whether a browser should spell check an input element.

References

• Spellcheck
• Controlling spell checking in HTML forms