How to cancel edit/disable cached input (of type text) value?

javascript html caching autocomplete textinput
dance2die picture dance2die · Oct 20, 2009 · Viewed 12.8k times · Source

I have an input of type text, from which I have already entered value 1234
it has been saved in cache as shown below.

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The problem here is that, it is extremely frustrating to select the textbox in the next row.

Is there a way to not to display that 12334 (highlighted in the screenshot) from ever being displayed through HTML markup or javascript?

Answer

Christian C. Salvadó picture Christian C. Salvadó · Oct 20, 2009

As @John pointed out, on modern browsers you can use the HTML5 valid autocomplete attribute, in your screenshot I see many textboxes, if you want to disable autocompletion on the whole form you can set this attribute directly at the form element:

<form name="form1" id="form1" method="post" autocomplete="off"
  action="http://www.example.com/form.action">
[...]
</form>

More info:

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