How to Turn on Spell Check in Sublime Text
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Recently, I was writing some some HTML using Sublime Text for an article that I was writing. The tag completion and tab spacing were the features I really wanted (I’ve done it free-typing before, and it’s just way too manual and error-prone), but I was missing out on a key feature and didn’t it realize it until later: spell check.

As I was working on the HTML, I was also adding and editing some lines to my page here and there, and unfortunately, I made a typo.

Now, the backstory as to how I got there isn’t too important, but the experience made me realize I really wanted spell check in my Sublime Text. Since I do a lot of web development in general, I would want another check beyond my own eyes to make sure any typos don’t make it out to user-facing pages.

How to turn spell check on

In Sublime Text, go to Preferences > Settings.

A new window will open:

On the left-hand side are the default Sublime Text settings all in one JSON file. On the right-hand side, you can override any setting in the default file simply by choosing a different value for the key.

Let’s ctrl+f (Windows) or cmd+f (Mac) for spell_check . If you just type up to spell , actually, it’ll find the correct key.

Now, on the right-hand side, simply set spell_check to true like so:

Now, when you have something misspelled in Sublime Text, there will be a jagged red line underneath the word:
['Tremaine Eto']
['Technology', 'Software', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Front End Development']