Question

I have a basic text input for a login form and I’d like the browser to remember email addresses that the user has entered, but it’s not working. I don’t think I should need to add a full auto-complete system to get this to work since it’s something the browser should be doing. I don’t see anything special on sites I’ve visited where this works.

If I search for this problem all the answers are about disabling autocomplete.

Here’s my login form:

<form id="login-form">
  <fieldset>
    <input id="email" type="email" placeholder="Your email" required="" >
    <input id="password" type="password" placeholder="Pick a good password" required="" minlength="6">
    <button class="login">Register</button>
  </fieldset>
</form>

Answer 1

So the problem here seems to be that I didn’t have a “name” attribute on my input. It also seems that I need to have specific values for the name. “email” works and “login” works, but “user_email” and “foo” don’t work.

Surprisingly this started working as soon as I added ‘name=”email”‘ to the input, so it seems that Chrome was saving the values, but wasn’t showing them.

This simple input is all you need for Chrome to do email autocomplete:

<input name="email">