I know i shouldnt do it but it may be easier then explaining to the clients that you should do it through the browser. They have a public computer and a server running on the machine in an admin account (the code i am writing). They want people to enter their information but they dont want someone pressing down on the email input box to display ppls email address. Is there a way i can disable this through code in IE? (i believe they are using 6 but they may use 7 or 8).
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A:
Use the non-standard autocomplete attribute:
autocomplete="off"
Works in all modern browsers. Will break HTML 4 validation, though. No way around that. Will be valid in HTML 5.
Reference:
Pekka
2010-09-16 20:40:32
so `<input ... autocomplete="off">` ok i'll try this now. -edit- yes it worked! will accept when i can
acidzombie24
2010-09-16 20:41:22
you could use JavaScript to append the autocomplete attribute to the textbox, no? Then it would work and your page would still validate. Best of both worlds.
Timothy
2010-09-16 20:43:57
@Timothy good idea, but that won't work with form values that get auto-completed on page load. The only way to disable this that works with valid HTML is to re-name the form elements on every request like `user124928239` ...
Pekka
2010-09-16 20:44:40
Good point. I didn't think of that.
Timothy
2010-09-17 00:39:40