.attr() not setting "spellcheck" correctly to "false"

If I do:

$("textarea").attr('spellcheck', 'false');

then inspect the textarea (with firebug), I see that spellcheck is in fact set to *true*.

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description:	\ If I do: \ \ $("textarea").attr('spellcheck', 'false'); \ \ then inspect the textarea (with firebug), I see that spellcheck is in fact set to true. \ \ → If I do: \ \ $("textarea").attr('spellcheck', 'false'); \ \ then inspect the textarea (with firebug), I see that spellcheck is in fact set to true. \ \
resolution:	→ worksforme
status:	new → closed

As this page says, spellcheck is a bit of an oddball:

However,

$("textarea").attr('spellcheck', false)

(with a boolean value) works fine.

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