Enabling or Disabling Automatic Spell Checking in ckEditor

KB290 Last reviewed 10 May 2017

1 Introduction
2 ckEditor Spell Checking
3 Method
4 Additional Information

Introduction

This article provides instructions on how to enable or disable SCAYT automaticaly spelling checking in ckEditor.

ckEditor Spell Checking

Spell checking in ckEditor is provided by the SCAYT plugin. SCAYT, or SpellCheckAsYouType, is an advert support solution. Further details are available at http://ckeditor.com/addon/scayt

As of Camino 1.6, SCAYT spell checking is automatically enabled by default with the language of en_GB. The SCAYT plugin is included by default with the version of ckEditor distributed with Camino

Method

Browse to Camino's ckEditor installation at ~/App/Components/ckEditor/ckeditor
Create a backup of ckEditor's configuration file config.js
Open config.js and change the following
1. To auto-enable SCAYT, add/set config.scayt_autoStartup = true;
2. To disable SCAYT, add/set config.scayt_autoStartup = false;
Save config.js
The changes will take effect the next time ckEditor is loaded.

Additional Information

For additional configuration options for SCAYT see http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/guide/dev_howtos_scayt

Enabling or Disabling Automatic Spell Checking in ckEditor

Contents

Introduction

ckEditor Spell Checking

Method

Additional Information

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