Question

Does anyone know how you can turn off autocompletion on a textfield in Django?

For example, a form that I generate from my model has an input field for a credit card number. It is bad practice to leave autocompletion on. When making the form by hand, I’d add a autocomplete=”off” statement, but how do you do it in Django and still retain the form validation?

Answer 1

In your form, specify the widget you want to use for the field, and add an attrs dictionary on that widget. For example (straight from the django documentation):

class CommentForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField(
                widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'special'}))
    url = forms.URLField()
    comment = forms.CharField(
               widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'size':'40'}))

Just add 'autocomplete': 'off' to the attrs dict.