I have 2 basic forms -- sign in and sign up, both on the same page. Now, I have no problem with the sign in form auto-filling, but the sign up form auto fills as well, and I don't like it.
Also, the form styles get a yellow background which I can't manage to override and I don't want to use inline CSS to do so. What can I do to make them stop being colored yellow and (possibly) auto filling? Thanks in advance!
<form autocomplete="off">
Pretty much all modern browsers will respect that.
You can also change the name attribute of your form elements to be something generated so that the browser won't keep track of it. HOWEVER firefox 2.x+ and google chrome seems to not have much problems with that if the request url is identical. Try basically adding a salt request param and a salt field name for the sign-up form.
However I think autocomplete="off" is still top solution :)
You can disable auto-completion as of HTML5 (via autocomplete="off"), but you CAN'T override the browser's highlighting. You could try messing with ::selection in CSS (most browsers require a vendor prefix for that to work), but that probably won't help you either.
Unless the browser vendor specifically implemented a vendor-specific way of overriding it, you can't do anything about such styles that are already intended to override the site's stylesheet for the user. These are usually applied after your stylesheets are applied and ignore ! important overrides, too.
The screenshot you linked to says that WebKit is using the selector input:-webkit-autofill for those elements. Have you tried putting this in your CSS?
input:-webkit-autofill {
background-color: white !important;
}
If that doesn't work, then nothing probably will. Those fields are highlighted to alert the user that they have been autofilled with private information (such as the user's home address) and it could be argued that allowing a page to hide that is allowing a security risk.
The form element has an autocomplete attribute that you can set to off. As of the CSS the !important directive after a property keeps it from being overriden:
background-color: white !important;
Only IE6 doesn't understand it.
If I misunderstood you, there's also the outline property that you could find useful.
for the autocompletion, you can use:
<form autocomplete="off">
regarding the coloring-problem:
from your screenshot i can see that webkit generates the following style:
input:-webkit-autofill {
background-color: #FAFFBD !important;
}
1) as #id-styles are even more important than .class styles, the following may work:
#inputId:-webkit-autofill {
background-color: white !important;
}
2) if that won't work, you can try to set the style via javascript programmatically
$("input[type='text']").bind('focus', function() {
$(this).css('background-color', 'white');
});
3) if that won't work, your doomed :-) consider this:
this wont hide the yellow color, but will make the text readable again.
input:-webkit-autofill {
color: #2a2a2a !important;
}
4) a css/javascript solution:
css:
input:focus {
background-position: 0 0;
}
and the following javascript has to be run onload:
function loadPage()
{
if (document.login)//if the form login exists, focus:
{
document.login.name.focus();//the username input
document.login.pass.focus();//the password input
document.login.login.focus();//the login button (submitbutton)
}
}
eg:
<body onload="pageLoad();">
good luck :-)
I've seen Google toolbar's autocomplete feature disabled with javascript. It might work with some other autofill tools; I don't know if it'll help with browsers built in autocomplete.
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
if(window.attachEvent)
window.attachEvent("onload",setListeners);
function setListeners(){
inputList = document.getElementsByTagName("INPUT");
for(i=0;i<inputList.length;i++){
inputList[i].attachEvent("onpropertychange",restoreStyles);
inputList[i].style.backgroundColor = "";
}
selectList = document.getElementsByTagName("SELECT");
for(i=0;i<selectList.length;i++){
selectList[i].attachEvent("onpropertychange",restoreStyles);
selectList[i].style.backgroundColor = "";
}
}
function restoreStyles(){
if(event.srcElement.style.backgroundColor != "")
event.srcElement.style.backgroundColor = "";
}//-->
</script>
Why not just put this in your css:
input --webkit-autocomplete {
color: inherit;
background: inherit;
border: inherit;
}
That should take care of your issue. Although it does raise a usability issue because now the user can't see that the form was autofilled in the way he/she is used to.
[edit] After posting this I saw that a similar answer was already given and that you commented on it that it didn't work. I don't quite see why because it did work when I tested it.