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Disabling Chrome Autofill
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I just updated my browser to Chrome Version 63.0.3239.84 (Official Build) (64-bit).
I then proceeded to go on my website, where I have a input box with autocomplete='off', yet I still get the following:
(You can see my inbuilt suggestion dropdown below it)
This never used to be the case. Nothing else has changed!
Why is this happening? Is this a bug in the new version of chrome? I have tried all other suggestions like autocomplete="false" or applying autocomplete=off to the form too. I have even tried to apply these with jquery after the page has loaded but also no luck.
I have tested this on multiple machines with the newest version of chrome on different operating systems. The issue persists.
Update Apr 2021:
Chrome and Firefox support autocomplete="off"
Safari continues to ignore autocomplete="off" and as far as I know there's no good solution fore Safari except to obfuscate the field name.
Update Feb 2018:
Thanks to #JamesNisbet for pointing this out in the comments.
According to the Chrome team, autocomplete="off" and autocomplete="false" will be ignored moving forward. This is not a temporary regression in Chrome.
Chrome will attempt to autofill any form fields that follow the WHATWG standard on autocomplete. With one exception, they ignore "off" and "false" values.
In summary, to disable autofill, use the autocomplete attribute with a value that is not on the WHATWG list.
Make your case why you think autocomplete="off" should not be ignored by Chrome in this Chromium thread.
Looks like a possible regression in Chrome 63. In Chrome's original autofill documentation:
In the past, many developers would add autocomplete="off" to their form fields to prevent the browser from performing any kind of autocomplete functionality. While Chrome will still respect this tag for autocomplete data, it will not respect it for autofill data. So when should you use autocomplete="off"? One example is when you've implemented your own version of autocomplete for search.
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/06/checkout-faster-with-autofill
They do make a distinction between autocomplete and autofill, although it's not clear they are different.
Chrome, Safari, and Edge are all attempting to implement autofill but there is no clear standard. They look at the name attribute rather than an explicit, standardized attribute.
For now autocomplete="something-new" is a good workaround, although syntactically it makes no sense. This seems to work because the browser can't understand it.
We tried autocomplete="false" and autocomplete="off", neither work. But something Chrome doesn't understand, like autocomplete="disabled", does seem to work. Strange!
Update: this is working as of Chrome 72.
2019 It seems autocomplete="disabled" works again as of Chrome 72.
SINCE A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DOWNVOTING WITHOUT READING THE COMMENTS:
THIS NO LONGER WORKS IN CHROME AS OF 2018 / CHROME 63+
relevant: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=587466
Having autocomplete="false" instead of autocomplete="off" works, you can read more from the Chrome team as to why they did it
here:
https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/form-styles-that-chromium-understands
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=468153
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/zhhj7hCip5c
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/06/checkout-faster-with-autofill
Looks like chrome looks for the closest "label" html tag to the input, and analyzes the label's value/html to affect the input's autofill.
The cleanest workaround I found to disable the input's autofill was this:
<label for="">Country</label>
<label for="" style="display: none;">hidden label to mislead chrome autocomplete</label>
<input ... />
I've managed to get a working "hack" in Chrome Version 65.0.3325.162 (Official Build) (64-bit).
I have to render an input field - hidden so it doesn't affect my page:
<input style="display:none;"/>
Then I render my password input field:
<input type="password" autocomplete="new-password" />
So my form ends up looking like:
<form>
<input style="display:none;" />
<input type="password" autocomplete="new-password" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
Importantly, you cannot add a name or an id attribute to your password type input element, and you must have autocomplete="new-password"
After Chrome 63 it looks like they changed it to autocomplete="disabled"
I recommend you get a browser detecting library and for the rest of it use autocomplete="off"
As Chrome is never going to work properly and/or keeps changing its mind (I know its not human) the simplest solution to ensure autofill/autocomplete stops is to do the following on any inputs you dont want autofilled:
<input type='text' readonly onfocus="this.removeAttribute('readonly');" value=''/>
For Angular users, Since the autocomplete = 'off' ignore by new chrome versions, chrome developer suggests autocomplete= 'false | random-string', so the google chrome/modern browsers have 2 type of users helpers -
autocomplete='off' (which prevents last cached suggestions).
autocomplete = 'false | random-string' (which prevents autofill setting, since the 'random-string' is not known by the browser).
so what to do, in case of disabling both the annoying suggestions? Here is the trick:-
add autocomplete = 'off' in every input fields. (or simple Jquery).
$("input").attr('autocomplete', 'off');
Remove the <form name='form-name'> tag from HTML code and add ng-form = 'form-name' in your <div> container. adding ng-form="form-name" will also retain all your validations.
I feel terrible how different browsers use different options in a same functionality.
If it's chrome, use autocomplete="disabled" which handles both autocomplete and address based autofill (two separate things):
element.autocomplete = isGoogleChrome() ? 'disabled' : 'off';
You can get some insight on how to writ isGoogleChrome() from here
JavaScript: How to find out if the user browser is Chrome?
Current working solution using JQuery:
Removed name and id from the input I don't want autofill on and added an identifying class. I then created a hidden input with the field name and id I want. Then on form submit I copy the value from the field with no id and no name (finding it by my identifying class), into the hidden field with the name and id.
HTML
<form id="myform">
<input class="identifyingclass" value="">
<input class="hidden" id="city" name="city" value="">
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
Javascript
$('#myform').on('submit', function(e) {
$("#city").val($('.identifyingclass').val());
});
I reckon this should work as I don't see autofill latching on to anything other than an id or name.
Every answer I could find did not work for me. The most irritating part about my situation was how Android populated the notes field with a login name, resulting in erroneous notes being entered into the database.
I thought about how typing into the text input clears the Android autofill and the below trick worked. Note that simply clearing the value did not remove the autocomplete, I had to set the field's value. Immediately clearing the value after setting a value also did not work. The delay is needed for Android chrome to see a change and remove the filled in value.
Bonus: doing this action on the notes field caused Android to empty the other autocompleted elements in my form.
<script src="/js/jquery-1.12.1.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(function () {
$('#notes').val('--');
setTimeout(
function(){ $('#notes').val(''); }
, 2000
);
});
</script>
<input type='text' id='notes' name='notes' maxlength='250' size='17'>
The function setTimeout( callback, msec ) is javascript, thus a programmer could implement this without using jQuery.
I fixed this on my site by replacing the offending input element with
<p class="input" contenteditable="true"> </p>
and using jQuery to populate a hidden field prior to submission.
But this is a truly awful hack made necessary by a bad decision at Chromium.
I usually do this to hide the autofill icon:
<div style="width: 0; overflow:hidden;">
<input type="text" />
</div>
As Chrome will put the autofill icon on the first writable text field, the icon is placed on the hidden input field.
Note: Making the input field hidden-type or setting its display to 'none' doesn't seem to work.
autocomplete="off" works in the current Chrome 68 as well as in Chrome 63.
Demo.
Try to remove the "Id" of the input.
That's how i fixed it.
Related
I always thought that setting type="tel" on an <input> is enough for autocomplete. Turn out not true:
Open MDN's <input type="tel"> page, look at the example. If I remove both name="phone" and id="phone", autocomplete does not work. If I remove either of them, autocomplete still works.
I think it could be considered invalid, then I add both of them, but use a different value, not phone. Autocomplete still does not work.
So maybe Chrome "guesses" what to fill bases on the name/id. My question is why they do that. Why doesn't it fill for type="tel" alone?
I use latest Chrome.
I have built a textbox dropdown AngularJS component which works great in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer.
A feature of this component is that you type in a string, and then can use the up/down arrow keys to scroll through suggestions.
In Microsoft Edge, as soon as you hit the down arrow, the following text is added to the input box:
briefly explain your changes (corrected spelling, fixed grammar, improved formatting)
Is there anything I can do client side to stop this from happening?
<form>
<input type="text" />
</form>
To demonstrate this, run the above snipper, type something into the textbox and hit the down arrow twice on Edge. I want this to not happen, as it is breaking my autocomplete!
Thanks
If I understand correctly, you are having an issue with the autocomplete feature. Simple add "autocomplete='off'" to your input and that should disable the feature.
<input type="text" autocomplete="off"/>
Unfortunately, none of the above suggestions worked for me in latest Edge. However, this solution does:
<input type="text" autocomplete="off" list="autocompleteOff"
id="fieldId" name="fieldname" placeholder="Placeholder here" />
This forces Edge to find a data lookup list called autocompleteOff which doesn't exist. Works a treat for me.
Added advantage is that it's pure HTML, no CSS or JS required.
2021 update:
Another solution which works very well for me is to add the readonly attribute to the field and then remove the tag using JQuery after a short delay of a few ms. The readonly attributes causes Edge (and others) to ignore the field.
For anyone experiencing autofill ignoring the autocomplete="off" on Edge 105+, you can use aria-autocomplete="none" alongside, which will prevent autofill from showing up (Tested in macOS 12.5 but should work in other platforms)
From Mozilla:
You can set the autocomplete on the actual form tag <form autocomplete='off' ... >...</form> which will work for the entire form, or on individual <input type='text' /> tags.
In my experience on IE 11 and Edge putting it on the form works but individual tags does not work. I tried testing on Chrome but the fields were already not autocompleting.
Please read the full Article for more detailed information.
NOTE
Most browsers disregard this for login fields.
if you want to remove autocomplete at the input in chrome when you use autocomplete="off" also you must remove id, if you don't remove id on your input, autocomplete will not work!
simple example:
<input type="text" autocomplete="off" list="autocompleteOff"
name="fieldname" placeholder="Placeholder here" />
you can handle your input with name ;) , that work for me fine.
<input type="text" autocomplete="new-password" />
If you are defining a user management page where a user can specify a new password for another person, and therefore you want to prevent autofilling of password fields, you can use autocomplete="new-password"
MDN reference
It works also for non-password fields.
if you need it app/site-wide you can use jquery:
$('input').attr('autocomplete','off');
Or if you're like me and using Angular+ui-router you might try the following:
In your index.html add the following script:
<script type="text/javascript">
setTimeout(function() {
$('input').attr('autocomplete', 'off');
}, 2000);
</script>
Then to cover state changes, add the following to your root controller:
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeStart', function() {
$timeout(function () {
$('input').attr('autocomplete', 'off');
}, 2000);
});
The timeouts are for the html to render before applying the jquery.
If you find a better solution please let me know.
This worked for Edge & Chrome (not a login form tho, not sure if that makes a difference)
autocomplete="somerandomstring"
https://gist.github.com/niksumeiko/360164708c3b326bd1c8#gistcomment-2367048
Just autocomplete="off" list="autocompleteOff" in your input and work done !
autocomplete="off" doesn't work since yesterday (edge 105.0.1343.25).
Looks like a bug to me. Hopefully, they will fix it soon.
in edge worked for me
`autocomplete="false" readonly onfocus="this.removeAttribute('readonly');" /
`according to this https://stackoverflow.com/a/30344707/14913109
When I am trying to change password in Chrome, there is always a dropdown list with "Use password for:" options. Is it possible to remove it? I have tried autocomplete="off" and autocomplete="false" but without success.
According to the spec, if you expect a new password to be filled in (which is why you would not expect auto-completion for example), you should rather specify autocomplete="new-password" for the input field.
This instruction is recognized by chrome.
They reported this as a bug in the Chromium project, but seems Google never actually looked at it or fixed it.
A workaround would be to change the name of the field.
You can also add invisible input fields, a demo could be found here.
I had the same problem it seems difficult to solve I found a solution
To solve the problem,
the input in initialization must be equal to type="text" and then change to type="password" with the first focus or insert input
function changeTypeInput(inputElement){
inputElement.type="password"
}
<input type="text"
id="anyUniqueId"
onfocus="changeTypeInput(this)"
oninput="changeTypeInput(this)"
/>
I've created a web application which uses a tagbox drop down. This works great in all browsers except Chrome browser (Version 21.0.1180.89).
Despite both the input fields AND the form field having the autocomplete="off" attribute, Chrome insists on showing a drop down history of previous entries for the field, which is obliterating the tagbox list.
Prevent autocomplete of username (or email) and password:
<input type="email" name="email"><!-- Can be type="text" -->
<input type="password" name="password" autocomplete="new-password">
Prevent autocomplete a field (might not work):
<input type="text" name="field" autocomplete="nope">
Explanation:
autocomplete still works on an <input>despite having autocomplete="off", but you can change off to a random string, like nope.
Others "solutions" for disabling the autocomplete of a field (it's not the right way to do it, but it works):
1.
HTML:
<input type="password" id="some_id" autocomplete="new-password">
JS (onload):
(function() {
var some_id = document.getElementById('some_id');
some_id.type = 'text';
some_id.removeAttribute('autocomplete');
})();
or using jQuery:
$(document).ready(function() {
var some_id = $('#some_id');
some_id.prop('type', 'text');
some_id.removeAttr('autocomplete');
});
2.
HTML:
<form id="form"></form>
JS (onload):
(function() {
var input = document.createElement('INPUT');
input.type = 'text';
document.getElementById('form').appendChild(input);
})();
or using jQuery:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('<input>', {
type: 'text'
}).appendTo($('#form'));
});
To add more than one field using jQuery:
function addField(label) {
var div = $('<div>');
var input = $('<input>', {
type: 'text'
});
if(label) {
var label = $('<label>', {
text: label
});
label.append(input);
div.append(label);
} else {
div.append(input);
}
div.appendTo($('#form'));
}
$(document).ready(function() {
addField();
addField('Field 1: ');
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form id="form"></form>
Works in:
Chrome: 49+
Firefox: 44+
UPDATE
It seems now Chrome ignores the style="display: none;" or style="visibility: hidden; attributes.
You can change it to something like:
<input style="opacity: 0;position: absolute;">
<input type="password" style="opacity: 0;position: absolute;">
In my experience, Chrome only autocompletes the first <input type="password"> and the previous <input>. So I've added:
<input style="display:none">
<input type="password" style="display:none">
To the top of the <form> and the case was resolved.
It appears that Chrome now ignores autocomplete="off" unless it is on the <form autocomplete="off"> tag.
2021 UPDATE:Change <input type="text"> to <input type="search" autocomplete="off" >
That is all. Keeping the below answer around for nostalgia.
For a reliable workaround, you can add this code to your layout page:
<div style="display: none;">
<input type="text" id="PreventChromeAutocomplete"
name="PreventChromeAutocomplete" autocomplete="address-level4" />
</div>
Chrome respects autocomplete=off only when there is at least one other input element in the form with any other autocomplete value.
This will not work with password fields--those are handled very differently in Chrome. See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=468153 for more details.
UPDATE: Bug closed as "Won't Fix" by Chromium Team March 11, 2016. See last comment in my originally filed bug report, for full explanation. TL;DR: use semantic autocomplete attributes such as autocomplete="new-street-address" to avoid Chrome performing autofill.
Modern Approach
Simply make your input readonly, and on focus, remove it. This is a very simple approach and browsers will not populate readonly inputs. Therefore, this method is accepted and will never be overwritten by future browser updates.
<input type="text" onfocus="this.removeAttribute('readonly');" readonly />
The next part is optional. Style your input accordingly so that it does not look like a readonly input.
input[readonly] {
cursor: text;
background-color: #fff;
}
WORKING EXAMPLE
Well, a little late to the party, but it seems that there is a bit of misunderstanding about how autocomplete should and shouldn't work. According to the HTML specifications, the user agent (in this case Chrome) can override autocomplete:
https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#autofilling-form-controls:-the-autocomplete-attribute
A user agent may allow the user to override an element's autofill field name, e.g. to change it from "off" to "on" to allow values to be remembered and prefilled despite the page author's objections, or to always "off", never remembering values. However, user agents should not allow users to trivially override the autofill field name from "off" to "on" or other values, as there are significant security implications for the user if all values are always remembered, regardless of the site's preferences.
So in the case of Chrome, the developers have essentially said "we will leave this to the user to decide in their preferences whether they want autocomplete to work or not. If you don't want it, don't enable it in your browser".
However, it appears that this is a little over-zealous on their part for my liking, but it is the way it is. The specification also discusses the potential security implications of such a move:
The "off" keyword indicates either that the control's input data is particularly sensitive (for example the activation code for a nuclear weapon); or that it is a value that will never be reused (for example a one-time-key for a bank login) and the user will therefore have to explicitly enter the data each time, instead of being able to rely on the UA to prefill the value for him; or that the document provides its own autocomplete mechanism and does not want the user agent to provide autocompletion values.
So after experiencing the same frustration as everyone else, I found a solution that works for me. It is similar in vein to the autocomplete="false" answers.
A Mozilla article speaks to exactly this problem:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Securing_your_site/Turning_off_form_autocompletion
In some case, the browser will keep suggesting autocompletion values even if the autocomplete attribute is set to off. This unexpected behavior can be quite puzzling for developers. The trick to really force the no-completion is to assign a random string to the attribute
So the following code should work:
autocomplete="nope"
And so should each of the following:
autocomplete="false"
autocomplete="foo"
autocomplete="bar"
The issue I see is that the browser agent might be smart enough to learn the autocomplete attribute and apply it next time it sees the form. If it does do this, the only way I can see to still get around the problem would be to dynamically change the autocomplete attribute value when the page is generated.
One point worth mentioning is that many browser will ignore autocomplete settings for login fields (username and password). As the Mozilla article states:
For this reason, many modern browsers do not support autocomplete="off" for login fields.
If a site sets autocomplete="off" for a form, and the form includes username and password input fields, then the browser will still offer to remember this login, and if the user agrees, the browser will autofill those fields the next time the user visits this page.
If a site sets autocomplete="off" for username and password input fields, then the browser will still offer to remember this login, and if the user agrees, the browser will autofill those fields the next time the user visits this page.
This is the behavior in Firefox (since version 38), Google Chrome (since 34), and Internet Explorer (since version 11).
Finally a little info on whether the attribute belongs on the form element or the input element. The spec again has the answer:
If the autocomplete attribute is omitted, the default value corresponding to the state of the element's form owner's autocomplete attribute is used instead (either "on" or "off"). If there is no form owner, then the value "on" is used.
So. Putting it on the form should apply to all input fields. Putting it on an individual element should apply to just that element (even if there isn't one on the form). If autocomplete isn't set at all, it defaults to on.
Summary
To disable autocomplete on the whole form:
<form autocomplete="off" ...>
Or if you dynamically need to do it:
<form autocomplete="random-string" ...>
To disable autocomplete on an individual element (regardless of the form setting being present or not)
<input autocomplete="off" ...>
Or if you dynamically need to do it:
<input autocomplete="random-string" ...>
And remember that certain user agents can override even your hardest fought attempts to disable autocomplete.
TL;DR: Tell Chrome that this is a new password input and it won't provide old ones as autocomplete suggestions:
<input type="password" name="password" autocomplete="new-password">
autocomplete="off" doesn't work due to a design decision - lots of research shows that users have much longer and harder to hack passwords if they can store them in a browser or password manager.
The specification for autocomplete has changed, and now supports various values to make login forms easy to auto complete:
<!-- Auto fills with the username for the site, even though it's email format -->
<input type="email" name="email" autocomplete="username">
<!-- current-password will populate for the matched username input -->
<input type="password" autocomplete="current-password" />
If you don't provide these Chrome still tries to guess, and when it does it ignores autocomplete="off".
The solution is that autocomplete values also exist for password reset forms:
<label>Enter your old password:
<input type="password" autocomplete="current-password" name="pass-old" />
</label>
<label>Enter your new password:
<input type="password" autocomplete="new-password" name="pass-new" />
</label>
<label>Please repeat it to be sure:
<input type="password" autocomplete="new-password" name="pass-repeat" />
</label>
You can use this autocomplete="new-password" flag to tell Chrome not to guess the password, even if it has one stored for this site.
Chrome can also manage passwords for sites directly using the credentials API, which is a standard and will probably have universal support eventually.
Always working solution
I've solved the endless fight with Google Chrome with the use of random characters. When you always render autocomplete with random string, it will never remember anything.
<input name="name" type="text" autocomplete="rutjfkde">
Hope that it will help to other people.
Update 2022:
Chrome made this improvement: autocomplete="new-password" which will solve it but I am not sure, if Chrome change it again to different functionality after some time.
The solution at present is to use type="search". Google doesn't apply autofill to inputs with a type of search.
See: https://twitter.com/Paul_Kinlan/status/596613148985171968
Update 04/04/2016: Looks like this is fixed! See http://codereview.chromium.org/1473733008
Browser does not care about autocomplete=off auto or even fills credentials to wrong text field?
I fixed it by setting the password field to read-only and activate it, when user clicks into it or uses tab-key to this field.
fix browser autofill in: readonly and set writeble on focus (at mouse click and tabbing through fields)
<input type="password" readonly
onfocus="$(this).removeAttr('readonly');"/>
Update:
Mobile Safari sets cursor in the field, but does not show virtual keyboard. New Fix works like before but handles virtual keyboard:
<input id="email" readonly type="email" onfocus="if (this.hasAttribute('readonly')) {
this.removeAttribute('readonly');
// fix for mobile safari to show virtual keyboard
this.blur(); this.focus(); }" />
Live Demo https://jsfiddle.net/danielsuess/n0scguv6/
// UpdateEnd
By the way, more information on my observation:
Sometimes I notice this strange behavior on Chrome and Safari, when there are password fields in the same form. I guess, the browser looks for a password field to insert your saved credentials. Then it autofills username into the nearest textlike-input field , that appears prior the password field in DOM (just guessing due to observation). As the browser is the last instance and you can not control it, sometimes even autocomplete=off would not prevent to fill in credentials into wrong fields, but not user or nickname field.
Chrome version 34 now ignores the autocomplete=off,
see this.
Lots of discussion on whether this is a good thing or a bad thing? Whats your views?
You can use autocomplete="new-password"
<input type="email" name="email">
<input type="password" name="password" autocomplete="new-password">
Works in:
Chrome: 53, 54, 55
Firefox: 48, 49, 50
[Works in 2021 for Chrome(v88, 89, 90), Firefox, Brave, Safari]
The old answers already written here will work with trial and error, but most of
them don't link to any official doc or what Chrome has to say on this
matter.
The issue mentioned in the question is because of Chrome's autofill feature, and here is Chrome's stance on it in this bug link - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=468153#c164
To put it simply, there are two cases -
[CASE 1]: Your input type is something other than password. In this case, the solution is simple, and has three steps.
Add name attribute to input
name should not start with a value like email or username, otherwise Chrome still ends up showing the dropdown. For example, name="emailToDelete" shows the dropdown, but name="to-delete-email" doesn't. Same applies for autocomplete attribute.
Add autocomplete attribute, and add a value which is meaningful for you, like new-field-name
It will look like this, and you won't see the autofill for this input again for the rest of your life -
<input type="text/number/something-other-than-password" name="x-field-1" autocomplete="new-field-1" />
[CASE 2]: input type is password
Well, in this case, irrespective of your trials, Chrome will show you the dropdown to manage passwords / use an already existing password. Firefox will also do something similar, and same will be the case with all other major browsers. [1]
In this case, if you really want to stop the user from seeing the dropdown to manage passwords / see a securely generated password, you will have to play around with JS to switch input type, as mentioned in the other answers of this question.
[1] A detailed MDN doc on turning off autocompletion - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Securing_your_site/Turning_off_form_autocompletion
Autocomplete="Off" doesn't work anymore.
Try using just a random string instead of "Off", for example Autocomplete="NoAutocomplete"
I hope it helps.
I am posting this answer to bring an updated solution to this problem.
I am currently using Chrome 49 and no given answer work for this one.
I am also looking for a solution working with other browsers and previous versions.
Put this code on the beginning of your form
<div style="display: none;">
<input type="text" autocomplete="new-password">
<input type="password" autocomplete="new-password">
</div>
Then, for your real password field, use
<input type="password" name="password" autocomplete="new-password">
Comment this answer if this is no longer working or if you get an issue with another browser or version.
Approved on:
Chrome : 49
Firefox : 44, 45
Edge : 25
Internet Explorer : 11
Seen chrome ignore the autocomplete="off", I solve it with a stupid way which is using "fake input" to cheat chrome to fill it up instead of filling the "real" one.
Example:
<input type="text" name="username" style="display:none" value="fake input" />
<input type="text" name="username" value="real input"/>
Chrome will fill up the "fake input", and when submit, server will take the "real input" value.
No clue why this worked in my case, but on chrome I used autocomplete="none" and Chrome stopped suggesting addresses for my text field.
Writing a 2020+ answer in case if this helps anyone. I tried many combinations above, though there is one key that was missed in my case. Even though I had kept autocomplete="nope" a random string, it didn't work for me because I had name attribute missing!
so I kept name='password'
and autocomplete = "new-password"
for username, I kept name="usrid" // DONT KEEP STRING THAT CONTAINS 'user'
and autocomplete = "new-password" // Same for it as well, so google stops suggesting password (manage password dropdown)
this worked very well for me.
(I did this for Android and iOS web view that Cordova/ionic uses)
<ion-input [type]="passwordType" name="password" class="input-form-placeholder" formControlName="model_password"
autocomplete="new-password" [clearInput]="showClearInputIconForPassword">
</ion-input>
autocomplete="off" is usually working, but not always. It depends on the name of the input field. Names like "address", 'email', 'name' - will be autocompleted (browsers think they help users), when fields like "code", "pin" - will not be autocompleted (if autocomplete="off" is set)
My problems was - autocomplete was messing with google address helper
I fixed it by renaming it
from
<input type="text" name="address" autocomplete="off">
to
<input type="text" name="the_address" autocomplete="off">
Tested in chrome 71.
Some end 2020 Update. I tried all the old solutions from different sites. None of them worked! :-(
Then I found this:
Use
<input type="search"/>
and the autocomplete is gone!
Success with Chrome 86, FireFox, Edge 87.
autocomplete=off is largely ignored in modern browsers - primarily due to password managers etc.
You can try adding this autocomplete="new-password" it's not fully supported by all browsers, but it works on some
to anyone looking for a solution to this, I finally figure it out.
Chrome only obey's the autocomplete="off" if the page is a HTML5 page (I was using XHTML).
I converted my page to HTML5 and the problem went away (facepalm).
Change input type attribute to type="search".
Google doesn't apply auto-fill to inputs with a type of search.
Up until just this last week, the two solutions below appeared to work for Chrome, IE and Firefox. But with the release of Chrome version 48 (and still in 49), they no longer work:
The following at the top of the form:
<input style="display:none" type="text" name="fakeUsername"/>
<input style="display:none" type="password" name="fakePassword"/>
The following in the password input element:
autocomplete="off"
So to quickly fix this, at first I tried to use a major hack of initially setting the password input element to disabled and then used a setTimeout in the document ready function to enable it again.
setTimeout(function(){$('#PasswordData').prop('disabled', false);}, 50);
But this seemed so crazy and I did some more searching and found #tibalts answer in Disabling Chrome Autofill. His answer is to use autocomplete="new-password" in the passwords input and this appears to work on all browsers (I have kept my fix number 1 above at this stage).
Here is the link in the Google Chrome developer discussion:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=370363#c7
After the chrome v. 34, setting autocomplete="off" at <form> tag doesn`t work
I made the changes to avoid this annoying behavior:
Remove the name and the id of the password input
Put a class in the input (ex.: passwordInput )
(So far, Chrome wont put the saved password on the input, but the form is now broken)
Finally, to make the form work, put this code to run when the user click the submit button, or whenever you want to trigger the form submittion:
var sI = $(".passwordInput")[0];
$(sI).attr("id", "password");
$(sI).attr("name", "password");
In my case, I used to hav id="password" name="password" in the password input, so I put them back before trigger the submition.
I had a similar issue where the input field took either a name or an email. I set autocomplete="off" but Chrome still forced suggestions. Turns out it was because the placeholder text had the words "name" and "email" in it.
For example
<input type="text" placeholder="name or email" autocomplete="off" />
I got around it by putting a zero width space into the words in the placeholder. No more Chrome autocomplete.
<input type="text" placeholder="name or email" autocomplete="off" />
Instead of autocomplete="off" use autocomplete="false" ;)
from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29582380/75799
In Chrome 48+ use this solution:
Put fake fields before real fields:
<form autocomplete="off">
<input name="fake_email" class="visually-hidden" type="text">
<input name="fake_password" class="visually-hidden" type="password">
<input autocomplete="off" name="email" type="text">
<input autocomplete="off" name="password" type="password">
</form>
Hide fake fields:
.visually-hidden {
margin: -1px;
padding: 0;
width: 1px;
height: 1px;
overflow: hidden;
clip: rect(0 0 0 0);
clip: rect(0, 0, 0, 0);
position: absolute;
}
You did it!
Also this will work for older versions.
I managed to disable autocomple exploiting this rule:
Fields that are not passwords, but should be obscured, such as credit
card numbers, may also have a type="password" attribute, but should
contain the relevant autocomplete attribute, such as "cc-number" or
"cc-csc".
https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/create-amazing-password-forms
<input id="haxed" type="password" autocomplete="cc-number">
However it comes with the great responsibility :)
Don’t try to fool the browser Password managers (either built into the
browser, or external) are designed to ease the user experience.
Inserting fake fields, using incorrect autocomplete attributes or
taking advantage of the weaknesses of the existing password managers
simply leads to frustrated users.
Update 08/2022:
I managed to get autocomplete to be respected by including
autocomplete="new-password"
on each individual input element regardless of type.
E.g.
<input id="email" type="email" autocomplete="new-password"/>
How do you disable autocomplete in the major browsers for a specific input (or form field)?
Firefox 30 ignores autocomplete="off" for passwords, opting to prompt the user instead whether the password should be stored on the client. Note the following commentary from May 5, 2014:
The password manager always prompts if it wants to save a password. Passwords are not saved without permission from the user.
We are the third browser to implement this change, after IE and Chrome.
According to the Mozilla Developer Network documentation, the Boolean form element attribute autocomplete prevents form data from being cached in older browsers.
<input type="text" name="foo" autocomplete="off" />
In addition to setting autocomplete=off, you could also have your form field names be randomized by the code that generates the page, perhaps by adding some session-specific string to the end of the names.
When the form is submitted, you can strip that part off before processing them on the server-side. This would prevent the web browser from finding context for your field and also might help prevent XSRF attacks because an attacker wouldn't be able to guess the field names for a form submission.
Most of the major browsers and password managers (correctly, IMHO) now ignore autocomplete=off.
Why? Many banks and other "high security" websites added autocomplete=off to their login pages "for security purposes" but this actually decreases security since it causes people to change the passwords on these high-security sites to be easy to remember (and thus crack) since autocomplete was broken.
Long ago most password managers started ignoring autocomplete=off, and now the browsers are starting to do the same for username/password inputs only.
Unfortunately, bugs in the autocomplete implementations insert username and/or password info into inappropriate form fields, causing form validation errors, or worse yet, accidentally inserting usernames into fields that were intentionally left blank by the user.
What's a web developer to do?
If you can keep all password fields on a page by themselves, that's a great start as it seems that the presence of a password field is the main trigger for user/pass autocomplete to kick in. Otherwise, read the tips below.
Safari notices that there are 2 password fields and disables autocomplete in this case, assuming it must be a change password form, not a login form. So just be sure to use 2 password fields (new and confirm new) for any forms where you allow
Chrome 34, unfortunately, will try to autofill fields with user/pass whenever it sees a password field. This is quite a bad bug that hopefully, they will change the Safari behavior. However, adding this to the top of your form seems to disable the password autofill:
<input type="text" style="display:none">
<input type="password" style="display:none">
I haven't yet investigated IE or Firefox thoroughly but will be happy to update the answer if others have info in the comments.
Sometimes even autocomplete=off would not prevent to fill in credentials into the wrong fields, but not a user or nickname field.
This workaround is in addition to apinstein's post about browser behavior.
Fix browser autofill in read-only and set writable on focus (click and tab)
<input type="password" readonly
onfocus="this.removeAttribute('readonly');"/>
Update:
Mobile Safari sets cursor in the field, but it does not show the virtual keyboard. The new fix works like before, but it handles the virtual keyboard:
<input id="email" readonly type="email" onfocus="if (this.hasAttribute('readonly')) {
this.removeAttribute('readonly');
// fix for mobile safari to show virtual keyboard
this.blur(); this.focus(); }" />
Live Demo https://jsfiddle.net/danielsuess/n0scguv6/
// UpdateEnd
Because the browser auto fills credentials to wrong text field!?
I notice this strange behavior on Chrome and Safari, when there are password fields in the same form. I guess the browser looks for a password field to insert your saved credentials. Then it auto fills (just guessing due to observation) the nearest textlike-input field, that appears prior the password field in the DOM. As the browser is the last instance and you can not control it.
This readonly-fix above worked for me.
The solution for Chrome is to add autocomplete="new-password" to the input type password. Please check the example below.
Example:
<form name="myForm"" method="post">
<input name="user" type="text" />
<input name="pass" type="password" autocomplete="new-password" />
<input type="submit">
</form>
Chrome always autocomplete the data if it finds a box of type password, just enough to indicate for that box autocomplete = "new-password".
This works well for me.
Note: make sure with F12 that your changes take effect. Many times, browsers save the page in the cache, and this gave me a bad impression that it did not work, but the browser did not actually bring the changes.
<form name="form1" id="form1" method="post"
autocomplete="off" action="http://www.example.com/form.cgi">
This will work in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. The downside is that it is not XHTML standard.
As others have said, the answer is autocomplete="off".
However, I think it's worth stating why it's a good idea to use this in certain cases as some answers to this and duplicate questions have suggested it's better not to turn it off.
Stopping browsers storing credit card numbers shouldn't be left to users. Too many users won't even realize it's a problem.
It's particularly important to turn it off on fields for credit card security codes. As this page states:
"Never store the security code ... its value depends on the presumption that the only way to supply it is to read it from the physical credit card, proving that the person supplying it actually holds the card."
The problem is, if it's a public computer (cyber cafe, library, etc.), it's then easy for other users to steal your card details, and even on your own machine a malicious website could steal autocomplete data.
Always working solution
I've solved the endless fight with Google Chrome with the use of random characters. When you always render autocomplete with random string, it will never remember anything.
<input name="name" type="text" autocomplete="rutjfkde">
Hope that it will help to other people.
Update 2022:
Chrome made this improvement: autocomplete="new-password" which will solve it but I am not sure, if Chrome change it again to different functionality after some time.
I'd have to beg to differ with those answers that say to avoid disabling auto-complete.
The first thing to bring up is that auto-complete not being explicitly disabled on login form fields is a PCI-DSS fail. In addition, if a users' local machine is compromised then any autocomplete data can be trivially obtained by an attacker due to it being stored in the clear.
There is certainly an argument for usability, however there's a very fine balance when it comes to which form fields should have autocomplete disabled and which should not.
Three options:
First:
<input type='text' autocomplete='off' />
Second:
<form action='' autocomplete='off'>
Third (JavaScript code):
$('input').attr('autocomplete', 'off');
This works for me.
<input name="pass" type="password" autocomplete="new-password" />
We can also use this strategy in other controls like text, select etc
In addition to
autocomplete="off"
Use
readonly onfocus="this.removeAttribute('readonly');"
for the inputs that you do not want them to remember form data (username, password, etc.) as shown below:
<input type="text" name="UserName" autocomplete="off" readonly
onfocus="this.removeAttribute('readonly');" >
<input type="password" name="Password" autocomplete="off" readonly
onfocus="this.removeAttribute('readonly');" >
On a related or actually, on the completely opposite note -
"If you're the user of the aforementioned form and want to re-enable
the autocomplete functionality, use the 'remember password'
bookmarklet from this bookmarklets
page. It removes
all autocomplete="off" attributes from all forms on the page. Keep
fighting the good fight!"
Just set autocomplete="off". There is a very good reason for doing this: You want to provide your own autocomplete functionality!
None of the solutions worked for me in this conversation.
I finally figured out a pure HTML solution that doesn't require any JavaScript, works in modern browsers (except Internet Explorer; there had to at least be one catch, right?), and does not require you to disable autocomplete for the entire form.
Simply turn off autocomplete on the form and then turn it ON for any input you wish it to work within the form. For example:
<form autocomplete="off">
<!-- These inputs will not allow autocomplete and Chrome
won't highlight them yellow! -->
<input name="username" />
<input name="password" type="password" />
<!-- This field will allow autocomplete to work even
though we've disabled it on the form -->
<input name="another_field" autocomplete="on" />
</form>
I've been trying endless solutions, and then I found this:
Instead of autocomplete="off" just simply use autocomplete="false"
As simple as that, and it works like a charm in Google Chrome as well!
We did actually use sasb's idea for one site.
It was a medical software web app to run a doctor's office. However, many of our clients were surgeons who used lots of different workstations, including semi-public terminals. So, they wanted to make sure that a doctor who doesn't understand the implication of auto-saved passwords or isn't paying attention can't accidentally leave their login information easily accessible.
Of course, this was before the idea of private browsing that is starting to be featured in Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.1, etc. Even so, many physicians are forced to use old school browsers in hospitals with IT that won't change.
So, we had the login page generate random field names that would only work for that post. Yes, it's less convenient, but it's just hitting the user over the head about not storing login information on public terminals.
I think autocomplete=off is supported in HTML 5.
Ask yourself why you want to do this though - it may make sense in some situations but don't do it just for the sake of doing it.
It's less convenient for users and not even a security issue in OS X (mentioned by Soren below). If you're worried about people having their passwords stolen remotely - a keystroke logger could still do it even though your app uses autcomplete=off.
As a user who chooses to have a browser remember (most of) my information, I'd find it annoying if your site didn't remember mine.
The best solution:
Prevent autocomplete username (or email) and password:
<input type="email" name="email"><!-- Can be type="text" -->
<input type="password" name="password" autocomplete="new-password">
Prevent autocomplete a field:
<input type="text" name="field" autocomplete="nope">
Explanation:
autocomplete continues work in <input>, autocomplete="off" does not work, but you can change off to a random string, like nope.
Works in:
Chrome: 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63 and 64
Firefox: 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57 and 58
Use a non-standard name and id for the fields, so rather than "name" have "name_". Browsers will then not see it as being the name field.
The best part about it is that you can do this to some, but not all, fields and it will autocomplete some, but not all fields.
Adding autocomplete="off" is not going to cut it.
Change the input type attribute to type="search".
Google doesn't apply auto-fill to inputs with a type of search.
I just ran into this problem and tried several failures, but this one works for me (found on MDN):
In some cases, the browser will keep suggesting autocompletion values
even if the autocomplete attribute is set to off. This unexpected
behavior can be quite puzzling for developers. The trick to really
force the no-completion is to assign a random string to the attribute
like so:
autocomplete="nope"
Adding the
autocomplete="off"
to the form tag will disable the browser autocomplete (what was previously typed into that field) from all input fields within that particular form.
Tested on:
Firefox 3.5, 4 BETA
Internet Explorer 8
Chrome
So here is it:
function turnOnPasswordStyle() {
$('#inputpassword').attr('type', "password");
}
<input oninput="turnOnPasswordStyle()" id="inputpassword" type="text">
In order to avoid the invalid XHTML, you can set this attribute using JavaScript. An example using jQuery:
<input type="text" class="noAutoComplete" ... />
$(function() {
$('.noAutoComplete').attr('autocomplete', 'off');
});
The problem is that users without JavaScript will get the autocomplete functionality.
This is a security issue that browsers ignore now. Browsers identify and store content using input names, even if developers consider the information to be sensitive and should not be stored.
Making an input name different between 2 requests will solve the problem (but will still be saved in browser's cache and will also increase browser's cache).
Asking the user to activate or deactivate options in their browser's settings is not a good solution. The issue can be fixed in the backend.
Here's the fix. All autocomplete elements are generated with a hidden input like this:
<?php $r = md5(rand() . microtime(TRUE)); ?>
<form method="POST" action="./">
<input type="text" name="<?php echo $r; ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="__autocomplete_fix_<?php echo $r; ?>" value="username" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
The server then processes the post variables like this: (Demo)
foreach ($_POST as $key => $val) {
$newKey = preg_replace('~^__autocomplete_fix_~', '', $key, 1, $count);
if ($count) {
$_POST[$val] = $_POST[$newKey];
unset($_POST[$key], $_POST[$newKey]);
}
}
The value can be accessed as usual
echo $_POST['username'];
And the browser won't be able to suggest information from the previous request or from previous users.
This will continue to work even if browsers update their techniques to ignore/respect autocomplete attributes.
Try these too if just autocomplete="off" doesn't work:
autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" autocomplete="off"
I can't believe this is still an issue so long after it's been reported. The previous solutions didn't work for me, as Safari seemed to know when the element was not displayed or off-screen, however the following did work for me:
<div style="height:0px; overflow:hidden; ">
Username <input type="text" name="fake_safari_username" >
Password <input type="password" name="fake_safari_password">
</div>
None of the hacks mentioned here worked for me in Chrome.
There's a discussion of the issue here: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=468153#c41
Adding this inside a <form> works (at least for now):
<div style="display: none;">
<input type="text" id="PreventChromeAutocomplete" name="PreventChromeAutocomplete" autocomplete="address-level4" />
</div>
Things had changed now as I tried it myself old answers no longer work.
Implementation that I'm sure it will work. I test this in Chrome, Edge and Firefox and it does do the trick. You may also try this and tell us your experience.
set the autocomplete attribute of the password input element to "new-password"
<form autocomplete="off">
....other element
<input type="password" autocomplete="new-password"/>
</form>
This is according to MDN
If you are defining a user management page where a user can specify a new password for another person, and therefore you want to prevent autofilling of password fields, you can use autocomplete="new-password"
This is a hint, which browsers are not required to comply with. However modern browsers have stopped autofilling <input> elements with autocomplete="new-password" for this very reason.