Stop browser from filling textboxes with details

Question

Hi,

I've run into a really annoying problem, and I'm hoping it's just a setting I've missed. I've got an ASP.NET application which allows users to enter their username/password in various places (e.g. login, change password, change username etc..). When I logged in, the browser asked if I would like to store the user details. Usually, I click 'no', but this time I decided to click 'yes'. Now, certain textboxes in my form are prefilled with the username or password. Is it possible to remove these, as they sometimes appear in textboxes which shouldn't be prefilled. I tried setting AutoCompleteType=none and Text='' but it still gets prefilled. The textboxes don't have much in common, except the same CssClass and, for password boxes, TextMode=password. The names are different, although sometimes they include the word name (e.g. fullName, userName). Is there a way to stop the browser from filling certain textboxes?

Thanks

Answer 1

  <input type="text" name="Username" autocomplete="off">

You can also put this on the form tag. Note this does not work consistently in all browsers.

Answer 2

I posted a blog about this last year, http://professionalaspnet.com/archive/2009/06/01/Control-TextBox_1920_s-AutoComplete-Action.aspx