Disable text input history [duplicate]

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How do you disable browser Autocomplete on web form field / input tag?

I am building an application which will be accepting credit card data. I would like to make sure that the browser does not remember what has been typed into the text inputs for credit card number. I tried passing the following headers:

header("Expires: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 06:00:00 GMT");
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Pragma: no-cache");

Still, once the page reloads, I can click the credit card text input field and it will let me see what I wrote in it before. How can I prevent this?

This is not a server-side issue, it's the browser's autocomplete functionality at work. — Jon
– Jon, Commented Sep 24, 2011 at 15:57
I was also considering that this might be the case, but I made a little test: I went on PayPal to reset my password. Resetting the password involves entering the credit card number assigned to my account. I did this twice - the reset password page does NOT remember what I entered the first time in the credit card number field. — Boyan Georgiev
– Boyan Georgiev, Commented Sep 24, 2011 at 16:02
I couldn't, that's what led me to asking the question here :) — Boyan Georgiev
– Boyan Georgiev, Commented Sep 24, 2011 at 16:17

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:54:44Z

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<input type="text" autocomplete="off"/>

Should work. Alternatively, use:

<form autocomplete="off" … >

for the entire form (see this related question).

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:54

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Over a year ago

That's not a related question, that's an exact duplicate.

user703016 Over a year ago

@IgnacioVazquez-Abrams: An exact duplicate is by property a related question and the reciprocal is false.

Ryan · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-24 15:59:17Z

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<input type="text" autocomplete="off" />

answered Sep 24, 2011 at 15:59

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Peter Mortensen Over a year ago

But it is non-standard(?). Does it work in 2020?

valepu Over a year ago

@PeterMortensen Hi from 2022: It almost never works and browsers behave very differently (chrome being the one that ignores this the most)

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