Disable autofill on a web form through HTML or JavaScript?

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at. picture at. · Feb 25, 2013 · Viewed 43.7k times · Source

Is there a way to disable autofill in Chrome and other browsers on form fields through HTML or JavaScript? I don't want the browser automatically filling in answers on the forms from previous users of the browser.

I know I can clear the cache, but I can't rely on repeatedly clearing the cache.

Answer

LNendza picture LNendza · Feb 25, 2013

You can do it at the input level in HTML by adding autocomplete="off" to the input.

http://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/autocomplete-off/

You could also do it via JS such as:

someForm.setAttribute( "autocomplete", "off" ); 
someFormElm.setAttribute( "autocomplete", "off" );

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