Disable autofill on a form

[gildas...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I'm developing a website, with pages containing the name of a country.

When I test my website on Chrome and I start filling the field "Name" (on the country form creation), Chrome tries to autofill with my own name instead of the autocompletion I developed (proposing every coutries matchings with the first characters filled by the user).

The autocomplete="off" is not working on the form since Chrome is not proposing the old values that were already filled, but another feature helping the user auto filling its personal informations.

How can I disable the "autofill with personal informations"'s Chrome feature for all the users of my website ?

Thanks in advance.

[thdoan]

I was going to recommend adding autocomplete="off", but you've already done that. However, for the personal info autofilling I think it's beyond our control since it's a browser feature. You can read more about it here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Securing_your_site/Turning_off_form_autocompletion

"For this reason, many modern browsers do not support autocomplete="off" for login fields"

It's possible Chrome treats any name field as a login field and will autofill no matter what you do.

[gildas...@gmail.com]

Thanks for the reply.

I guess that it's not possible to prevent this autofill then.

So sad. This feature finally brings more problems to the user than it solves.

[thdoan]

Np... here's the next best thing you can do:

1. go to Settings / Manage passwords

2. search for the domain of the site where it's autofilling

Now when you load that form it should not autofill anymore. Just remember the next time Chrome prompts you to save passwords, select NO.

[thdoan]

Ooops, I forgot step 3: delete the entry.

[gildas...@gmail.com]

I was searching a solution for every visitors of my site.

Thanks for proposing a solution anyways. :)