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Google Chrome form autofill and its yellow background

Answer 1

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In Firefox you can disable all autocomplete on a form by using the autocomplete="off/on" attribute. Likewise individual items autocomplete can be set using the same attribute.

<form autocomplete="off" method=".." action="..">  
<input type="text" name="textboxname" autocomplete="off">

You can test this in Chrome as it should work.

Kinlan 2010-05-27 10:44:56

Answer 2

+7 A:

Apply this CSS:

input:-webkit-autofill {
    color: #fff !important;
}

Just tested on my site and it doesn't work on background-color :(

Edit: After doing some research I found this jQuery:

if ($.browser.webkit) {
    $('input[name="password"]').attr('autocomplete', 'off');
}

Maybe that will help.

Kyle Sevenoaks 2010-05-27 11:13:42

Interesting. I suspect the yellow color is meant as a security-relevant highlight to tell the user that something happened. The fact that you can disable that from the site CSS looks like a security problem to me.

Joachim Sauer 2010-05-27 11:15:55

Oh, and +1 for an actual on-topic plug of your site ;-)

Joachim Sauer 2010-05-27 11:16:17

I agree, but there always should be a way to change such behaviours, going back to my example that this color clashes with the rest of my site design.

Kyle Sevenoaks 2010-05-27 11:22:08

Your CSS changes text color to white but do not touches background-color. Overwrite it does nothing.

hsz 2010-05-27 11:30:00

You're right, it does only change the font color.. Not the background. After more research, seems the only way to do anything with it is a jQuery.

Kyle Sevenoaks 2010-05-27 11:33:27

What do you mean ? What way ?

hsz 2010-05-27 11:34:53

To disable the autocomplete function in Chrome. There is no current way to change the colors.

Kyle Sevenoaks 2010-05-27 11:36:28

@Kyle: no offence, but your site design is not as important as the browsers makers security concerns. If they think it's necessary to always show auto-filled text fields in a specific colour, then they should pretty well be able to override anything you try to define.

Joachim Sauer 2010-05-27 12:18:34

Agreed, they should definitely have this function, it's a great help to a lot of people using Chrome, but the ability to change the color of it so it doesn't clash so much with site's designs would be great also. See here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1334

Kyle Sevenoaks 2010-05-27 12:23:15

@Kyle: I understand the complaints, but the problem remains: if the web page were allowed to change the style, then it could easily trick the user into submitting his stored credentials without him knowing that they are transmitted, which would be a *major* security flaw. Setting the background color and not setting the foreground, however is simply wrong.

Joachim Sauer 2010-05-27 15:44:16

Yeah, you're right, this could be used to trick users into submitting things. Security > aesthetics.

Kyle Sevenoaks 2010-05-28 08:08:10

Answer 3

A:

I Think goolge has resolved this issue in its new update. And thats the only thing which keep away many people from Chrome!

zain 2010-09-15 21:40:54

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