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DPierangeli
Jul 22, 2019Brass Contributor
Autocomplete off behaviour
Chrome/Chromium has a nasty handling of the html attribute 'autocomplete=off' : it doesn't respect it. It has raised a lot of complaints from developers (but Google seems that is not listening): ...
NXTwoThou
Apr 20, 2022Iron Contributor
Just checking on the status of this. It's 2022 and Edge is still doesn't appear to be honoring autocomplete="off". The "excuse" is that it's anti-user to not allow the browser to offer suggestions for data entry. It's also anti-user to not allow page and site level disabling of autocomplete. It's simple. If the Edge team(not the Chrome team) feel that autocomplete="off" is a bad thing, it NEEDS to be an option for USERS to determine if they want to honor it and default it to ignoring autocomplete="off". That way, we can tell -our- users where to go into configuration to allow our site to be more friendly to them. It's simple, if autocomplete="off" for the form element or the input element, never pop up something offering a suggestion or an auto fill for any elements under that form or that element. Allow customers who are doing data entry, where 99.999% of the time the information is unique, to not have irrelevant things pop up, cover other elements, and grow and grow and grow as they use the same form thousands of times a day.