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April 6, 2014 05:11
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Hide the red squiggle from the Google Search spell checker.
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/* | |
The Google Search page has its own spellchecker, which applies to any text you | |
enter into the search box. Like all spellcheckers, it's a useless pile of shit. | |
I haven't found any way to turn it off, or even much confirmation of its | |
existence. | |
The page loads a script that sends the content of the search box to Google's | |
servers whenever you type something into it. This enables Google to perform | |
autocompletion and spellchecking. If Google thinks you've misspelled something, | |
the script will insert a span element with the CSS class "gsc_b" into the input | |
box. | |
This span has a CSS background-image, which is a Base64-encoded GIF of a red | |
squiggle. The red squiggle only appears when the input box is focused and the | |
user has typed something. Clicking away causes it to disappear. | |
Presumably, the "gsc" in "gsc_b" stands for "Google spell check" or something | |
like that. The red squiggle can be hidden by overriding the CSS style so it | |
is not displayed by the browser. | |
*/ | |
span.gsc_b { | |
display: none; | |
} |
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awesome seems to work perfectly.