Chrome ignores autocomplete="off"

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Mr Fett picture Mr Fett · Sep 11, 2012 · Viewed 431k times · Source

I've created a web application which uses a tagbox drop down. This works great in all browsers except Chrome browser (Version 21.0.1180.89).

Despite both the input fields AND the form field having the autocomplete="off" attribute, Chrome insists on showing a drop down history of previous entries for the field, which is obliterating the tagbox list.

Answer

Diogo Cid picture Diogo Cid · Mar 27, 2014

UPDATE

It seems now Chrome ignores the style="display: none;" or style="visibility: hidden; attributes.

You can change it to something like:

<input style="opacity: 0;position: absolute;">
<input type="password" style="opacity: 0;position: absolute;">

In my experience, Chrome only autocompletes the first <input type="password"> and the previous <input>. So I've added:

<input style="display:none">
<input type="password" style="display:none">

To the top of the <form> and the case was resolved.

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