http://www.mabaloo.com/Software-Development/Spell-Checker-Routine-Using-VB.html

And get things done on server side

NOTE: The reason JSP SpellChecker does not work with FCK Editor by default is because at the time of replacing the contents it gets confused, as it cannot refer the text area anymore. The only way to update the text area which has been rendered by FCKEditor is by using FCKEditor object itself! (remember FCKEditor object creates IFrame etc. around the text area - so it is no longer accessible in the normal fashion!)

Here we go !~

//Get the instance of FCKEditor object
oEditor = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance( “myTextArea”);//put this as globally accessible variable

myTextArea is the text area you converted to FCK Editor.

In spellcheck-functions.jsp, Look for this function: replaceWordInFieldIE.

Here get handle to oEditor (remember its in your parent window). So you may do something like this:
oEditor = opener.blah blah…

var oldHTML = “” + oEditor.GetHTML();
var originalWord = “” + word; // original word to replace
var newWord = “” + newWord; // new word to replace
var newHTML = oldHTML.replace(originalWord, newWord); //new string to set.
oEditor.SetHTML(newHTML);
return;

Ofcourse you will have to take care the your string replacement function is smarter than this, since it deals with html it can potenially replace even the text inside html tags. But this is how you do it !

any suggestions?

I found your spell checker really great one. But we are using a framework called ES-framework build on IBM WebSphere. Which is more a tag based components. Right now I have not implemented this on it. So I just want to know, can you use this idea is ES-framework such that it doesn’t create any problems.

Thanks in advance,
Bhargava

Very useful script! I’m working on evaluating it for our application, however I can across an issue that has me stumped. As best as I can see the overlay trick you use requires that the textarea have position: absolute; applied to it. That’s fine however I’m seeing having that is breaking all my surrounding div’s (I’m wrapping the textarea in a few div’s for styling and other reasons) such that all the div’s collapse overtop of the textarea.

Have you ever come across this, and if so, do you have any suggestions on how to overcome this issue?

Thanks in advance,

Bruce

I wanted to confirm if I can integrate your spell checked component within my richtext editor in ASP pages?

Thank you.

Thanks in advance