Ckeditor5: Spell check support

[Elbek97]

🆕 Feature request

💻 CKEditor 5

I appreciate CKEditor 5. But i have hard time to implement spell check engine to editor.
My Spellcheck backend service is ready.
Can you give me some hints to apply to CKEditor 5.

[oleq]

Hi, you should probably get familiar with the Markers API like addMarker(). Other than that, I'm not able to help your more because there's no such feature on our side at this moment.

[wwalc]

Just one additional comment for anyone looking for an external spell checker instead of using the one that is built-in in web browsers. We are going to offer an official spell checker for CKEditor 5 very soon, with the help of our friends from https://webspellchecker.com. The solution will contain:

• The spell checker for 16 languages (with the possibility of supporting 142 additional languages).
• The grammar checker for 14 languages.
• Support for custom dictionaries.

Feel free to contact us for more details.

[Reinmar]

To add to @oleq's answer – markers are a low-level API which indeed allows rendering squiggles quite easily. We're considering implementing a higher-level API for annotations based on markers, but there's nothing concrete yet. It would make implementing a custom solution much easier.

[jshaptala]

@oleq, we have already implemented a solution, WProofreader, for spelling and grammar check that you can try. Here you can find a demo of WProofreader for CKEditor 5.

[uberism]

Does anybody have a spell checking solution for iOS?
CKEditor5 doesn't seem to play nicely with iOS keyboard and breaks autocomplete

[Reinmar]

CKEditor5 doesn't seem to play nicely with iOS keyboard and breaks autocomplete

Could you report a separate ticket for this and describe some of the issues that you encountered? It will help us prioritising and fixing them.

[jshaptala]

Does anybody have a spell checking solution for iOS?

@uberism, you can try WProofreader for CKEditor 5. It provides support for touch devices.

Here you can find a screenshot from Iphone.

[uberism]

Thanks for the suggestion @wsc-julia-shaptala. Though the backspacing is still an issue with regards to how ckeditor handles text and there is no autocaptilization on new lines which makes still hesitant on continuing to use CkEditor5

[KirankumarAmbati]

(Sorry that I'm commenting on a closed issue)

@wwalc, is the CKEditor5 integrated with a spell checker ?

If not, may I know in which release/ by when it is expected to be available to the end user ?

Actually, I have a requirement of integrating of spell checker with my CKEditor5. So just wanted to know if we already have it in CKEdtor5. Thanks!

[AnnaTomanek]

WProofreader for CKEditor 5 is the official integration that is available and works. We are now working on the official CKEditor 5 documentation and samples for it. The resources should be ready next week.

[KirankumarAmbati]

Thanks @AnnaTomanek for the update! :)