Version: (using KDE 4.0.83) Installed from: SuSE RPMs OS: Linux When I fill out a textarea field with konqueror, sometimes, some characters suddenly turn red with no information why.
Created attachment 26141 [details] red characters without motivation
It looks like you have automatic spell checking enabled - Konqueror marks all words which are not in its (probably English) dictionary in red. If you don't want Konqueror to check spelling, try to disable spell-checking (right click on the text area, disable "Auto Spell Check").
It worries me that the spell check turns on after about 5 minutes. That is not intuitive.
*** Bug 166939 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
@comment #3: If I understand you correctly, the words in the textarea are black at first and turn red after 5 minutes? I cannot reproduce this with Konqueror 4.1: Unknown words are marked instantly. Very long texts (complex Wikipedia articles) take 1-2 seconds to get checked.
Can you try the new KDE 4.2 beta 1 in order to test if the problem is still valid?
Still valid for KDE from yesterday.
Thank you for the bug report. As this report hasn't seen any changes in 10 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists. If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.
Dear user, KHTML (and KJS) was a long time more or less unmaintained and got removed in KF6. Please migrate to use a QWebEngine based HTML component. We will do no further fixes or improvements to the KF5 branches of these components beside important security fixes. For security issues, please see: https://kde.org/info/security/ Sorry that we did not fix this issue during the life-time of KHTML. Greetings Christoph Cullmann