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HTMLHelp Forums _ General Web Design _ TEXT BOX MEMORY ( how do I disable)

Posted by: ben637 Jan 17 2008, 08:22 AM

This is probably really simple but I can't find it anywhere. I want to make text boxes which do not auto complete based on previous entries.

Thanx

Posted by: pandy Jan 17 2008, 08:57 AM

Do you mean the IE feature?
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533486.aspx

Posted by: ben637 Jan 17 2008, 09:00 AM

That looks like what i need, do you know if its the same in FireFox?
I will test now to see if it what im looking for

cheers

Posted by: ben637 Jan 17 2008, 09:04 AM

definitely does the trick in IE, Thanks

I cant test FF yet

Posted by: pandy Jan 17 2008, 09:11 AM

QUOTE(ben637 @ Jan 17 2008, 03:00 PM)

do you know if its the same in FireFox?

No idea, but I doubt.

Posted by: pandy Jan 17 2008, 09:15 AM

I found a page that says that the autocomplete attribute does work in FF. Let us know if it does.

Posted by: ben637 Jan 17 2008, 09:17 AM

QUOTE(pandy @ Jan 17 2008, 09:15 AM)

I found a page that says that the autocomplete attribute does work in FF. Let us know if it does.

I would but I can't get into an environment to test firefox today and what im working on is internal so cant get anyone to check for me.

Posted by: moo Jan 17 2008, 11:15 AM

autocomplete="off" should work in all modern browsers (including firefox) but Mozilla is a little lackadaisical about implementing what is after all a non-standard attribute which overides users' preferences. Understandably, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333080! And some developers have http://www.verysimple.com/blog/2007/03/07/forcing-firefox-to-obey-autocompleteoff-for-password-fields/

There are javascript work-arounds whereby the formfields are cleared just after autocomplete populates them but in general I would leave auotocomplete alone. If I tell my browser to remember passwords it should honour my preference regardless.