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Allow native spell check correction of words

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#150 opened on Aug 5, 2016

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I came up with a hack that could possibly be used to enable native spell check for browsers that support it: http://codepen.io/csuwldcat/pen/mEzGmP?editors=0010

I noticed that clicks are still registered on the spans of words, so I figured I could clone the word on double click and make the clone contenteditable with spellchecking turned on. From there I mask the original, allow the user to right click the misspelled word, then reflect the change on the original text by copying the corrected text to it.

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Investigate wrapping text in contenteditable spans and synchronizing corrections with the original text, using the provided CodePen as a reference.
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javascript
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frontend
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JavaScriptDOM manipulation
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