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How can I disable auto correct in Safari? I edit HTML and CSS all day in a WYSIWYG editor and it keeps correcting and replacing all my tags. Even when I just open a file, make one change, it'll auto correct all instances of "center" to "centre" for example and it's extremely frustrating. I've looked in preferences and there seems to be no option to disable this annoyingly persistent problem.
I've gone back to Snow Leopard so I am telling you this from memory. Anyhow, go into System Preferences and click on the link for spelling. There will be a check box to disable system wide spell checking. Uncheck that, and you should be rid of that problem.
Thank you! I was more than a little irritated that Safari has its own setting AND it was greyed out. 🙂 All good now!
Just upgraded to 10.8.2 and you have to turn off spell-check for EVERY **** WINDOW YOU OPEN - FOREVER. This is ASININE.
How many *years* of bad spell-check joke pages does it take to give us the option to turn it the f''' OFF?
I found solution in Mavericks.
Go to System Preferences -> Language & Region -> Keyboard Preferences(button) -> Text(tab). Simply uncheck Correct Spelling Automatically(checkbox)
Restart Safari and you will notice that Edit -> Spelling and Grammar -> Correct Spelling Automatically option is no longer checked by default.
This 'feature' is most annoying in Safari when typing to enter an email address in a registration form. My name is short and I didn't notice it auto corrected to 'corn'. It is a system-wide default option that I discovered when searching here in the communities. It is not a Safari setting.
I am on Yosemite, OS X 10.10, and found the setting here:
System Preferences > Keyboard: Text tab
[X] Correct spelling automatically
Uncheck the box.
Thank you so much for this info. It works!!
I went in a text box and followed your prompts. Deselected "Correct Spelling Automatically" & it works like a charm.
While this was originally an old post, you can teach safari how to spell, instead of turning off spelling. Unless, of course, you don't want to be corrected at all.
This helped me but the "this helped me" link isn't working tonight (using Safari):
xriztofJul 26, 2011 10:43 AM <snip>Re: Disable auto correct in Safari?
NOTE: it'll be grayed/disable/not clickable if you're not on a textbox
In OS X: El Capitan (10.11.6), I was able to disable Auto-correct from the Keyboard pane of the System Settings.
This solution--including the note about needing a text box open in case the Correct Spelling Automatically--worked. Thanks.
Disable auto correct in Safari?
