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Consider adding `autocorrect="off" spellcheck="false"` to inputs

See original GitHub issue

A user is entering their email address on an email input implemented without type="email".

The standard input does not have autocorrect="off" so their email address is autocorrected.

Should we consider autocorrect="off" spellcheck="false" on inputs?

If type="email" is applied does this remove autocorrect?

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Created 5 years ago
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36degreescommented, Jan 18, 2019

This definitely seems like it’d be beneficial on text inputs asking for things like reference or document numbers, where spelling and autocorrect behaviours are not generally going to be helpful (I guess unless you have to enter the same reference number a lot and the browser has learnt it as part of its dictionary)

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edwardhorsfordcommented, Jan 30, 2019

I don’t know about defaulting, but it would be great to document some of this somewhere - attributes services should consider.

My general default is to disable spellcheck by default for all inputs, but then enable for inputs accepting sentence-like answers.

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