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In my HTML FORMs, when I focus certain text fields they list down history of values entered previously. Is it possible to avoid this auto-drop-down? I am not looking for some browser settings tips for my computer, instead, I want these settings for all of the users of my website filling a form.

Will it also be possible to apply these settings for some selected text fields only? as historical values for some text fields may be helpful for a particular user using his/her machine.

May be this could be achieved using Javascript, but no clue where to start from.

Thanks for your help.

PS: I am using PHP and Javascript (JQuery).

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  • Name the field something crazy that they probably have never encountered before. :) Commented Jun 29, 2009 at 15:38
  • @Tim .. LOL .. but the solution I am looking for is for users using my website's forms again and again. Commented Jun 29, 2009 at 15:40
  • Ah, ok.. Please disregard my comment then. :) Commented Jun 29, 2009 at 15:45
  • Note that if you have autocomplete="off" on a password field, Firefox will not save the password. However, if the password is already saved, it will be populated in a password field, even if autocomplete="off". Commented Jun 29, 2009 at 16:07

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Add the attribute autocomplete="off" to each of your form elements.

This is not part of the W3C HTML standard, but it does work in both Mozilla & IE browsers.

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I think this is an Internet Explorer specific thing.
In which standard is this defined? In which browser is this implemented?
It is not defined in any standard, but I haven't seen a browser that does autocomplete that does not obey this tag.
will it pass thru validation tests?
Invented by Microsoft, but now in HTML5 (w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#the-autocomplete-attribute) and supported by all major browsers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_(HTML_5)
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Try autocomplete="off" in your <form> or <input> tag, see this Mozilla article, this MSDN page and this Safari Reference page for more info. Looks like Safari has only documented the use of the attribute on individual <input> tags though.

See also the answers to the question How can I prevent Firefox’s Autocomplete?

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I think that this is implemented in firefox using an internal table with field names and their history. You can try to generate a custom name for your fields (like "name-asdfg" instead of just "name"), which results in a form generation and processing overhead (you must strip the nonsense from the end of the name).

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