Talk:How to Turn Off Form Autocompletion

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I have a problem with autocomplete="off". It's dangerous. It may not show a dropdown list but it still stores the information submitted. If you go to a form that has the same name it will show you the information you have submitted in the form with 'autocomplete="off"'. The best work around I have found is to use a textarea on 1 row for sensitive info that you would prefer not to be store in autocomplete formfileds.

Hope this helps. --User:VicMan (Talk) 07:14 EST, 7 September 2005

That seems like a bug to me, someone should file it. --Biesi 17:17, 13 September 2005 (PDT)

I have a problem with autocomplete="off" in the opposite direction. I want to suppress autocompletion in order to use an ajax autocompleter that talks to a database, and I don't want the built in one to argue with it, but when my users hit the back button it's annoying that the values they entered have dissapeared.

Is there a similar attribute that provides what I'm looking for? Or does anyone have a workaround? I want to turn off the suggestion aspect without turning off the storage aspect.

--Yani 12:07, 5 October 2007 (PDT)