Truth be told, it wasn't auto-correct that was happening, it was te red-underlining of words not in the dictionary.

I use Firefox and my misspelled words are still underlined in red. In fact it just corrected 'misspelled' in the previous sentence, lol.

Not sure what's going on at your end.

Firefox still underlines spelling mistakes here for me too.

Mine still works too...but that's not a guarantee that I won't submit a post w/out spelling errors,lol...Firefox underlines spelling mistakes at my end also. Hope you get it figured out.

Pen, Pug and Wally,

Thanks for the responses. I wrote the original thread from my home computer and am writing this from my work one, which is doing what it's supposed to do - underlining misspelled words as I type. Must be a setting somewhere on the home computer somewhere, but as I said, Firefox has the spelling drive engaged and there's no spelling choice on the control panel's Internet connection item.

"My typing useddddd to be auto-corrected here"

This is browser dependent and has nothing to do with gardenweb.

If misnamed plants are allowed, and corrections ignored, then my spelling will not be corrected. Correct names are more important to me to spend my time. Norma

I've never gotten the impression this was connected to any kind of spell check. More than a couple of times I've missed typos, misspellings, etc. on proofing myself here & they've appeared here w/out anything else having flagged them (unless I'm misunderstanding).

Amcour,

If that's true, why is it not on my home computer (with Firefox) but the misspellings (my intentional 'useddddd') but on my work computer - it's the same browser - Firefox.

Norma,

If I understand you correctly (anyone's guess there), yes, Ma'am.

Karen,

It is a form of browser spellchecker - many typos go through unflagged because they, as you well know, are themselves words, just not the correct ones. When I've actually misspelled a word here (see 'wwrrdd' but not 'hear'), the word's underlined in red.

Are you using v.1 of Firefox? (hope not!) It didn't have a specking cheller.

-R

-R,

It's the latest and greatest, so I don't think so.

Well I certainly don't have spell check. But i don't care. I only care avout correcg names. Norma

Have you checked your settings? Maybe it's been turned off.

Spell check seems to be working, here.

Enter text. Press Preview. Check spelling.

Hit submit. ;)

Josh

Norma,

Aye, we know.

Citosa,

Checked, turned on.

Josh,

It's a mystery I'm not interested in, but your concision in instructions is commendable.

Don't know. Never did work for me, IE and updated. I could have it turned off. It annoys me as it often tells you a word is misspelled when it doesn't recognize it, like names, botanical terms, etc.

Tally HO!

Brevity is the soul of wit ;)

Josh

BP,

You can right-click and add words to your dictionary.

Josh,

Stop being short with me.