How do I prevent a form from suggesting auto-complete values, from previous entries or from saved information in Edge?
In the above image, the email input field is marked as autocomplete="false", but still in the right pane you can see the suggestion is populating.
When I add autocomplete=disabled to one field it seems it work, but when I add the attribute to all the inputs, it again starts displaying suggestions for every field.
What is the solution for this?
Add the aria-autocomplete="list" attribute to the input.
<input type="text" id="FirstName" name="attr1" aria-autocomplete="list">
Do not use any other value for the attribute.
According to your description, I reproduced the problem. I think your issue is caused by the "Save and fill personal info" setting being enabled in Edge.
If you navigate to edge://settings/personalinfo and disable this feature, you can see this behavior no longer exists.
Or you can also click the "Manage personal info" option in the picture you provided, and then disable it.
I did some simple tests and found that if you need to solve the problem from the code, you need to modify the name attribute of the form's related field.
Like this（do not use attribute values like name or email... and maybe there are others I am not aware of):
<label for="attr1">attr1:</label>
<input type="text" id="FirstName" name="attr1">
<label for="attr2">attr2 :</label>
<input type="text" id="LastName" name="attr2">
<label for="attr3">attr3 :</label>
<input type="email" id="Email" name="attr3" autocomplete="off">
<input type="submit">
I don't recommend this, because good naming helps you understand and maintain the code. Using proper attributes like name and email also helps your code be more accessible for screen readers or other assistive technology.
I have made a form in HTML everything must work very well but there is sth very strange about it. when I check the form on a browser I see my inputs have default values. the values I haven't give them.
"creator" for text input and ***** for password input. I don't know why it's happening I just noticed it happens when I set my password type input equal to 'password' if I change it to text everything will be fine.
this is my form
<form class="form-group">
<input type='text' class='form-control' id='user_email' placeholder="username..." Required /><br>
<input type='password' class='form-control' id='user_PassEnter' placeholder="password..." Required /><br>
</form>
I also should mention the values change when I use other browsers. for example on Chrome the text input value became ajax.
You can solve this by either:
Disabling autocomplete using <form class = "form-group" autocomplete="off">
2.Remove data from your auto-fill in the settings of your browser.
Each browser has their own way of doing it, which you can find by a simple internet search.
By suggestions, I mean the drop down menu appear when you start typing, and it's suggestions are based on what you've typed before:
For example, when I type 'a' in title field, it will give me a ton of suggestions which is pretty annoying.
How can this be turned off?
What you want is to disable HTML autocomplete Attribute.
Setting autocomplete="off" here has two effects:
It stops the browser from saving field data for later autocompletion
on similar forms though heuristics that vary by browser. It stops the
browser from caching form data in session history. When form data is
cached in session history, the information filled in by the user will
be visible after the user has submitted the form and clicked on the
Back button to go back to the original form page.
Read more on MDN Network
Here's an example how to do it.
<form action="#" autocomplete="on">
First name:<input type="text" name="fname"><br>
Last name: <input type="text" name="lname"><br>
E-mail: <input type="email" name="email" autocomplete="off"><br>
<input type="submit">
</form>
If it's on React framework then use as follows:
<input
id={field.name}
className="form-control"
type="text"
placeholder={field.name}
autoComplete="off"
{...fields}/>
Link to react docs
Update
Here's an update to fix some browsers skipping "autocomplete=off" flag.
<form action="#" autocomplete="off">
First name: <input type="text" name="fname" autocomplete="off" readonly onfocus="this.removeAttribute('readonly');"><br> Last name: <input type="text" name="lname" autocomplete="off" readonly onfocus="this.removeAttribute('readonly');"><br> E-mail:
<input type="email" name="email" autocomplete="off" readonly onfocus="this.removeAttribute('readonly');"><br>
<input type="submit">
</form>
On Chrome, the only method we could identify which prevented all form fills was to use autocomplete="new-password". Apply this on any input which shouldn't have autocomplete, and it'll be enforced (even if the field has nothing to do with passwords, e.g. SomeStateId filling with state form values). See this link on the Chromium bugs discussion for more detail.
Note that this only consistently works on Chromium-based browsers and Safari - Firefox doesn't have special handlers for this new-password (see this discussion for some detail).
Update: Firefox is coming aboard! Nightly v68.0a1 and Beta v67.0b5 (3/27/2019) feature support for the new-password autocomplete attribute, stable releases should be coming on 5/14/2019 per the roadmap.
Update in 2022: For input fields with a type of password, some browsers are now offering to generate secure passwords if you've specified autocomplete="new-password". There's currently no workaround if you want to suppress that behavior, but I'll update if one becomes available.
use autocomplete="off" attribute
Quote:IMPORTANT
Put the attribute on the <input> element,
NOT on the <form> element
Adding the two following attributes turn off all the field suggestions (tested on Chrome v85, Firefox v80 and Edge v44):
<input type="search" autocomplete="off">
I know it's been a while but if someone is looking for the answer this might help. I have used autocomplete="new-password" for the password field. and it solved my problem. Here is the MDN documentation.
This solution worked for me: Add readonly attribute.
Here's an update to fix some browsers skipping the
"autocomplete=off" flag.
<input type="text" name="lname" autocomplete="off" readonly onfocus="this.removeAttribute('readonly');">
autocomplete = "new-password" does not work for me.
I built a React Form.
Google Chrome will autocomplete the form input based on the name attribute.
<input
className="scp-remark"
type="text"
name="remark"
id='remark'
value={this.state.remark}
placeholder="Remark"
onChange={this.handleChange}
/>
It will base on the "name" attribute to decide whether to autofill your form. In this example, name: "remark". So Chrome will autofill based on all my previous "remark" inputs.
<input
className="scp-remark"
type="text"
name={uuid()} //disable Chrome autofill
id='remark'
value={this.state.remark}
placeholder="Remark"
onChange={this.handleChange}
/>
So, to hack this, I give name a random value using uuid() library.
import uuid from 'react-uuid';
Now, the autocomplete dropdown list will not happen.
I use the id attribute to identify the form input instead of name in the handleChange event handler
handleChange = (event) => {
const {id, value} = event.target;
this.setState({
[id]: value,
})
}
And it works for me.
I had similar issue but I eventually end up doing
<input id="inp1" autocomplete="off" maxlength="1" />
i.e.,
autocomplete = 'off' and suggestions will be disappeared.
<input type="text" autocomplete="off"> is in fact the right answer, though for me it wasn't immediately clear.
According to MDN:
If a browser keeps on making suggestions even after setting
autocomplete to off, then you have to change the name attribute of the
input element.
The attribute does prevent the future saving of data but it does not necessarily clear existing saved data. Thus, if suggestions are still being made even after setting the attribute to "off", either:
rename the input
clear existing data entries
Additionally, if you are working in a React context the attribute naturally becomes autoComplete.
Cheers!
I ended up changing the input field to
<textarea style="resize:none;"></textarea>
You'll never get autocomplete for textareas.
If you are using ReactJS. Then make this as autoComplete="off"
<input type="text" autoComplete="off" />
I've tried inserting text into a textbox on my HTML5 login page but it isn't working. The controller finds the element okay and when the script is played back it even logs the case as a success, but the text is not being populated.
Here is the source for the textbox:
<input id="Username" class="standard defaultfocus input-validation-error" type="text" value="" name="Username" maxlength="100" data-val-required="Please enter a valid Email Address" data-val-regex-pattern="^[a-zA-Z0-9]+(\.{0,1}[a-zA-Z0-9_%+-]+)*\#[a-zA-Z0-9]+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]+)+$" data-val-regex="Please enter a valid Email Address" data-val="true"></input>
Here is the Sahi script:
_setValue(_textbox("Username"), "email#email.com");
Any idea how to get Sahi to fill in this texbox?
Thanks.
The solution to this issue required an edit to one of the .js files packaged with Sahi. The change is described here:
http://sahi.co.in/forums/discussion/4790/solution-to-run-the-script-on-firefiox-20-#Item_1
I have a basic text input for a login form and I'd like the browser to remember email addresses that the user has entered, but it's not working. I don't think I should need to add a full auto-complete system to get this to work since it's something the browser should be doing. I don't see anything special on sites I've visited where this works.
If I search for this problem all the answers are about disabling autocomplete.
Here's my login form:
<form id="login-form">
<fieldset>
<input id="email" type="email" placeholder="Your email" required="" >
<input id="password" type="password" placeholder="Pick a good password" required="" minlength="6">
<button class="login">Register</button>
</fieldset>
</form>
So the problem here seems to be that I didn't have a "name" attribute on my input. It also seems that I need to have specific values for the name. "email" works and "login" works, but "user_email" and "foo" don't work.
Surprisingly this started working as soon as I added 'name="email"' to the input, so it seems that Chrome was saving the values, but wasn't showing them.
This simple input is all you need for Chrome to do email autocomplete:
<input name="email">
I do not believe that you can force a user's browser to autocomplete.
HTML5 has an autocomplete form attribute.
Here is the W3C spec for autocomplete attribute.
However, even if you set this attribute to "on", the autocomplete of HTML forms is going to depend on the client's browser settings and configuration.
Although you can, as you said, disable autocomplete, there is not a way you can force the user's browser to autocomplete a form if they configure their browser not to remember form history.
For example, here is how to disable autocomplete for Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/How_to_Turn_Off_Form_Autocompletion