Spell Check an HTML SELECT

[Tom Opgenorth]

Hello, I'm wondering if it's possible for RadSpell to check and correct the spelling inside an HTML SELECT element?  For example, say I have this HTML snippet:

<select title="Select the correct answer in the pull-down." style="max-width: 650px;" class="pulldown_choice_options" id="sel_choice_0" tabindex="0">

<option value="forezt">forezt</option><option value="G">G</option><option value="d">d</option><option value="e">e</option><option value="f">f</option></select>

Notice the incorrectly spelled word "forezt". 

Now to add a twist to this, say I have several SELECT elements, all with the same options. Would it be possible to get RAD spell check treat all the SELECT's as one?  i.e.  look only at the first SELECT element and it's OPTIONs, but then correct the spelling in all the other SELECT elements with the class id of pulldown_choice_options.

We're using jQuery, ASP.NET MVC

Hope this makes sense.

TIA

[Rumen]

Hi Tom Opgenorth,

You can spellcheck the items of the select element but you cannot update the values of the inner option tags, because the spellchecker is designed to correct the text of form input / textbox / textarea elements only.

What you can do is to implement your own custom text source that will help you to spellcheck the select options and after getting the returned by the spellchecker suggestion using the get_text method to programmatically update the item values of the select elements. See these articles for more information:

http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/spell_checkingcustomsource.html
and
http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/spell_howtomutlipletextareas.html

Greetings,
Rumen
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[Tom Opgenorth]

Thanks a bunch for the answer, and for the tip. I already have a rudimentary "custom text source" because although I have multiple selects they all display the same data, so sounds like that is the way to go for me.