Enable spell check for text input controls in Power Apps

By / August 13, 2022

I am back with another blog on Power Apps. In this blog I am going to discuss about a simple functionality – enabling spell check in Text input controls.

Let’s get started. Power Apps has an inbuilt property to enable spell checker on Text Input controls.

Below is the Text Input control with EnableSpellCheck set to True

Spell check in Power Apps not working

And below is the spell check in action.

Spell check in Power Apps not working
Well it works great. But wait. When we implement a feature we must know when it works.

Contrary to the popular belier, Power Apps does not have inbuilt spell checker service or framework. Power Apps use the spell check of your browser. If spell check is not enabled in browser, it won’t work.

I have spell check enabled in my browser (chrome)

Spell check in Power Apps not working

I go ahead and disable the same.

As you can see, now the spell check no longer work.

Spell check in Power Apps not working

Remember, the spell check in Power Apps shall only work if spell check in your browser is enabled.

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Debajit Dutta
Business Solutions MVP