SpellCheckAsYouType (SCAYT)

SCAYT allows the user to see and correct misspellings while typing. Misspelled words are underlined. User just needs to right-click a marked word and select a suggestion to replace the word with.

SCAYT plugin for CKEditor 3.0+

Installation Guide

SCAYT is an integrated spell-checker of CKEditor starting from version 3.0. Free version with the advertisement banner is available for free for all CKEditor customers. If customer wants to get rid from the banner hosted or licensed version of SCAYT should be purchased.

Hosted Version
SCAYT plug-in for CKEditor is a zero-installation solution for spell checking provided by WebSpellChecker.net. You will now have a wonderful spell checker running out of the box, requiring no server side installations. Follow the instruction to migrate from free to hosted paid version of the plugin without banner.

Licensed Version
If you want WebSpellChecker engine to run on your server then Licensed Version is for you. Follow the instruction to migrate from hosted free to licensed version of the plugin.

Learn sample code below for more technical information.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
		"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <script type="text/javascript" src="ckeditor/ckeditor_source.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <textarea id="editor1">
    	This is an exampl of a sentence with two mispelled words.
    	Just type text with misspelling to see how it works.
    </textarea>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        // evaluate SCAYT on startup
        CKEDITOR.config.scayt_autoStartup = true;
        // needs to migrate your pages to licensed server version from trial
		// set up your own path to service
        CKEDITOR.config.scayt_srcUrl = 'http://your_host/path_to_scayt.js' ;
        // set up max suggestion count in context menu
        // all other words will be present in "More Suggestions" sub menu
        CKEDITOR.config.scayt_maxSuggestions = 4;
        // needs to migrate to hosted service from trial
		// set up encrypted customer id 
		CKEDITOR.config.scayt_customerid = "encrypted_customer_id";
		// set up SCAYT default language 
        CKEDITOR.config.scayt_sLang ="en_US";
        // set up dictionaries  (only for licensed version)
        CKEDITOR.config.scayt_userDictionaryName = "MyUserDictionaryName";
        CKEDITOR.config.scayt_customDictionaryIds = "CustomDictionaryID";
		// enable/disable the "More Suggestions" sub-menu in the context menu.
		// The possible values are "on" or "off".
		CKEDITOR.config.scayt_moreSuggestions = 'off';
		// customize the display of SCAYT context menu commands ("Add Word", "Ignore"
		// and "Ignore All"). It must be a string with one or more of the following
		// words separated by a pipe ("|"):
		// "off": disables all options.
		// "all": enables all options.
		// "ignore": enables the "Ignore" option.
		// "ignoreall": enables the "Ignore All" option.
		// "add": enables the "Add Word" option.
		CKEDITOR.config.scayt_contextCommands = 'add|ignoreall';
		// set the visibility of the SCAYT tabs in the settings dialog and toolbar
		// button. The value must contain a "1" (enabled) or "0" (disabled) number for
		// each of the following entries, in this precise order, separated by a
		// comma (","): "Options", "Languages" and "Dictionary".
		CKEDITOR.config.scayt_uiTabs = '1,0,1';
		// Define order of placing of SCAYT context menu items by groups.
		// It must be a string with one or more of the following
		// words separated by a pipe ("|"):
		// 'suggest' - main suggestion word list
		// 'moresuggest' - more suggestions word list
		// 'control' - SCAYT commands, such as 'Ignore' and 'Add Word'
		CKEDITOR.config.scayt_contextMenuItemsOrder ='moresuggest|control|suggest';
        // launch CKeditor
        CKEDITOR.replace( 'editor1' );
    </script>
</body>
</html>

SpellCheckAsYouType (SCAYT)

SCAYT plugin for CKEditor 3.0+

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