HTML - input value kept after Refresh

html input refresh
JB Hurteaux picture JB Hurteaux · Nov 25, 2009 · Viewed 60.6k times · Source

Usually, when a refresh is made on an HTML page, the values for input fields are kept (unless you do Ctrl+F5).

Is there a header or other type of setting than can change this behavior, without chaging anything on the form or input itself?

I have a site where the input value is not kept after a page refresh in Production. However I do not have this behavior when I test this code on my local machine.

Answer

McPherrinM picture McPherrinM · Nov 25, 2009

If you set the attribute autocomplete=off, the content will never be stored.

Alternatively, there's a plethora of ways to accomplish this with javascript, depending on exactly what you want to accomplish, whether it be clearing the whole form (use the reset() method), or resetting the single field.

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