Question

Has anyone else run into the issue where handling a click event on a submit button for a form with preventDefault stops autocomplete from working?

To be specific it simply never prompts to save the username and password combination, I assume this is because it is triggered on a post request which doesn’t occur in my case.

Can anyone think of a workaround?

PS: I have only tested in IE but am willing to bet I will see similar issues in the other browsers (will test shortly).

Answer 1

You have three options when altering the flow of an event:

1. e.preventDefault()
2. e.stopPropagation()
3. return false (calls both of the above).

Maybe trying using e.stopPropagation() instead, and see what that does for you.